(From L to R) Artists Tyler the Creator (please don't make me write out his full government name, it feels weird) and AZ Chike dressed as twins Smoke and Stack from Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" in the Look Like My Mama music video.
(Image credit: YouTube | AZ Chike)
Never has a blog so tailored made to my interests been delivered into my lap. Eerie enough to side-eye my mom's urn — it's beach themed! Her spirit a little too powerful sometimes, I swear.This weekend, Tyler the Creator of "Chromakopia" and "Loiter Squad" fame released a new single, "Look Like My Mama" — or rather, he collaborated in a new single from AZ Chike, an artist not nearly as popular among "The Atlantic's" core audience — and it's packed with movie references.I'm breaking down all the ones I recognized, plus where to stream hit movies like:Sinners — HBO MaxI Saw the TV Glow — tragically only available to rent right now on YouTube or Apple (*in my best Godfather voice* And now, upon the release of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma? Really?)Napoleon Dynamite — Prime Video or any thrift or physical media store on the planet, 9 times out of 10Men in Black — Netflix, MGM+First, real quick, a lil about me: Like the other wannabe mall goths, I stayed up to the wee hours watching "Loiter Squad" on Adult Swim in high school. Tyler the Creator's "Chromakopia" released the year after my mom died, and clotheslined me emotionally on a sunny afternoon in a home that she'll never see. (Our first!)I got covid and missed his tour, something I genuinely regret to this day. So for him to come out with a song like "Look Like My Mama" that references several fantastic movies I have not shut up about since starting this job is...interestin'.A lil about Tyler the creator: The Grammy-winning artist has been relatively quiet so far this year until dropping "That Guy" and "Sag Harbor" last month.
