Tyler the Creator, the young rapper and producer from Los Angeles, released his second studio album, Goblin, on May 10, 2011. The album was preceded by the singles “Yonkers” and “Sandwitches”.

The album debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 45,000 copies in the United States. It has since been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of over 500,000 copies.

The album received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average …