Odd Future

About

After their live TV debut on Jimmy Fallon last year, plenty of people were wondering just who hip hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA, or, easier, Odd Future) is. It took a special Esquire feature to sort it all out, but the short answer is a rather large and a little bit terrifying group of young rappers from Los Angeles, loosely lead by Tyler, The Creator. The group's mixtapes are nuts—a nihilistic, violent, anarchist milleau of unprintably obscene lyrics and their own beats (no samples) reminiscent of early Eminem. And if all this sounds a little familiar because you dig Frank Ocean, he's part of the collective, too, even though he doesn't quite fit in with the rest of the crew.