Vogue magazine called the 2010s the decade when hip-hop’s wardrobe became more openly receptive to femininity. The thorny process of queering and reconceptualizing the unstable heteronormative image of Black hypermasculinity in African American popular culture neither begins nor ends with pioneering rapper Young Thug — yet he could have become its most important representative, if not for his own reluctance and conservative impulses holding him back.

I listen as I am told. I listen as I say. DONT TAP THE GLASS. To answer to Tyler (and all other authors) with his own title so that they do not forget our privacy and the freedom to perceive and experience as we wish. DONT TAP THE GLASS will forever be a record of a time Tyler, The Creator wanted to move and invited us to join him. Whether we join in the dance while listening loudly or take away our own values and meanings from the work will be our free decision, beyond all manifestos and instructions.

It is highly likely that many will attempt to interpret the rollercoaster life of the artist formerly known as Kanye Omari West (now Ye). His life’s trajectory may have already been foreshadowed by Orson Welles in his film Citizen Kane (1941). And thirteen years earlier, Sigmund Freud contributed to this task by analyzing the personality of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.