Tyler, The Creator brings out Childish Gambino and A$AP Rocky at Coachella
Kali Uchis and Charlie Wilson also made appearances
by Surej Singh · NMEFor his headlining set at Coachella on Saturday (April 13), Tyler, The Creator brought out two major guests: Childish Gambino and A$AP Rocky.
While taking over the main stage as tonight’s headliner, the ‘This Is America’ singer showed up to perform ‘Running Out Of Time’ from Tyler’s 2019 album ‘Igor‘. Glover appeared while the stage was dark, wearing a bucket hat and an oversized cardigan.
“You know what’s sick, I used to hate that n****. I’m serious I had to go to therapy to sort it out,” Tyler said before going on to praise Glover for his work and music.
A$AP Rocky also came out for the live debut of ‘Potato Salad’ followed by ‘Who Dat Boy’. “You know what else is really crazy? I used to hate that n**** as well,” Tyler said, adding: “We thought we had beef but it was the n***** around us. And then me and Rocky realized we are in love and now we are friends.”
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Later on in his set, Tyler brought out Charlie Wilson to play piano on ‘EARFQUAKE’ and ‘911’. He also brought out Kali Uchis to perform ‘See You Again’.
In other Coachella news, Grimes’ DJ set at the festival was mired by technical difficulties with some fans have calling the set “the worst in the history of Coachella”.
Sublime – now fronted by late singer Bradley Nowell’s son Jakob –put on a show honouring Bradley, during which the band performed ‘Romeo’ live for the first time in 25 years. Nowell also played with his father’s custom guitar and Mesa Boogie amp and Gaugh played with his OG signature green drum kit marking the first time the drum kit and guitar were on the same stage since the last Sublime tour in 1996 (per Variety).
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