OddFuture

There are a few surprises amongst the nominees for the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, set to take place on August 28. While Kanye West scores seven nominations in a slew of different categories, newbie Kreayshawn takes a nod as well. The 'Gucci Gucci' rhymer will compete for a Moonman in the Best New Artist category, facing off against Wiz Khalifa, Big Sean, Tyler, the Creator and Foster the People.

Frank Ocean is running away from a murderer on his newly released track, 'Dreamkilla.' On the Midi Mafia production, the Odd Future affiliate croons of his quest to get away from a certain someone who's out to see his dreams squashed and future plans killed...

Tyler, the Creator has no plans of living a long life. The Odd Future frontman who is known for his violent lyrics predicts that he will only live until age 40. In an interview with the U.K.'s Q Magazine, Tyler revealed that he will either be killed or die from a drug overdose...

Rapper Game has had his fair share of beef, so when he saw Odd Future members Tyler, the Creator and Frank Ocean engaging in an online spat with Chris Brown via Twitter, he had to jump in. The Compton MC addressed all three parties for trading insults with one another, defusing yet another disagreement between Tyler and Brown, who have gone at it in the past on the social networking site... Read M

Method Man is a fan of Tyler, the Creator, but he draws the line at comparing Odd Future to the Wu-Tang Clan. The 'Bring the Pain' rapper was in the U.K. on tour with Wu-Tang when he explained that juxtaposing the California collective with his crew from Staten Island is not really appropriate...

L.A.-based hip-hop duo MellowHype don't just piggy-back on the Odd Future collective launch pad, they further it with a special brand of creep-tastic hardcore rap. Their latest video for '64' features Hodgy Beats and Left Brain in a 'Ring'/'Exorcist' mixed nightmare, complete with white contact lenses, ghostly perspectives and some resident evil twin boys...

At the halfway point in 2011, the year's biggest hip-hop and R&B hits have already run the gamut from eccentric love anthems courtesy of Nicki Minaj and Wiz Khalifa, to southern-tinged club bangers from Ace Hood and Rick Ross. Ea...

In a world captivated by memes, an Odd Future/Tegan and Sara mash-up seems way overdue. Having recently been blasted by Tegan and Sara's Sara Quin for his "misogynistic and homophobic ranting and raving," scolded by gay anti-defamation group GLAAD and called "boring" by Le Tigre and Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna, it really was only a matter of time before someone mashed up a Tyl

While Odd Future's antics have gained Tyler, The Creator and his rap team fans in high schools and colleges nationwide, their homophobic and misogynistic lyrics have also raised the ire of their fellow artists, like Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara, and gay anti-defamation group GLAAD...

Frank Ocean, the R&B portion of LA-based shock-rap collective Odd Future has blown out of the basement of Def Jam records with his latest mixtape 'Nostalgia, Ultra' -- a smart, fluid release fueled by the popularity (or unpopularity) of his skater-punk friend Tyler, the Creator. I...