During a recent performance at The El Rey in Los Angeles, rapper Tyler, The Creator shared some critical thoughts about the concept of posthumous releases and said that no one should expect anything from him following his time here on Earth.

“Some of these are so good I can’t just let it sit on my hard drive,” he said between songs as he referred to the recent release of Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale, which featured eight new tracks.

He continued, “Because I have it in my will that if I die they can’t put no f**king posthumous album out. That’s f**king gross, like, half-ass ideas and some random feature on it from some n***a I didn’t f**k with. Like, no.”

While most people agreed with the Grammy Award-winning star, some didn’t align with his particular thought process, as one onlooker from the crowd yelled, “That’s corny.”

Regardless, Tyler remained adamant about his feelings.

Looking back at the history of posthumous albums, it’s clear that they’ve proven themselves to be lucrative for record labels and the respective estates of late musicians.

However, some see them as sole for-profit entities that often fail to uphold the artistic merit and integrity of the discographies the artists worked so hard to achieve.

Some notable hip-hop artists to have posthumous albums include Mac Miller, Juice WRLD and Pop Smoke. 

Although Pop Smoke couldn’t release an album during his lifetime, two posthumous albums have been released since he was shot and killed in February 2020. 

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