Yonkers (song)

"Yonkers" is a song written, produced, and performed by American rapper Tyler, the Creator, released digitally as the second single from his second album, Goblin on February 14, 2011.[1]Tyler disses numerous musicians in the song, most notably Hayley Williams, B.o.B, and Bruno Mars."[4][5] The music video for "Yonkers", directed by Tyler, was released via Odd Future's YouTube channel on February 10, 2011.Shot in black-and-white using a perspective control lens, the video features Tyler performing the song on a chair in a blank room while handling and later eating a cockroach, which causes him to vomit.[10] Claire Suddath of Time named "Yonkers" the eighth best song of 2011, describing it as "minimalistic rap" and "a piece of performance art", concluding that it "creates a thrilling sense of uneasiness that the music world hadn't seen since the early days of punk".
Tyler holding a cockroach in the official music video
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