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CHROMAKOPIA is the eighth studio album by Tyler, the Creator. It was released on October 28, 2024. The album features notable artists like Lil Wayne, Doechii and ScHoolboy Q. The album tackles Tyler's issues and experiences such as his past relationships, being uncomfortable around his fans, his father and more which have been featured in past projects. Througout the album, his mother makes a few cameos in a voiceover usually at the start of the tracks. The title combines the Greek word "Chroma" meaning purity of color and "Kopia" from the Latin suffix meaning abundance.​

CHROMAKOPIA was very well received with it being Tyler's first album to spend multiple weeks at number one on the Billboard 200.

On October 29, 2025, little over a year after the album's initial debut, a deluxe edition titled CHROMAKOPIA+ was released. This edition includes an extra track, "Mother".

Tracklist

1. "St. Chroma" (3:17)
2. "Rah Tah Tah" (2:45)
3. "Noid" (4:44)
4. "Darling, I" (4:13)
5. "Hey Jane" (4:00)
6. "I Killed You" (3:30)
7. "Judge Judy" (4:29)
8. "Sticky" (4:15)
9. "Take Your Mask Off" (4:13)
10. "Tomorrow" (3:04)
11. "Thought I Was Dead" (3:27)
12. "Mother"^note exclusive to CHROMAKOPIA+ (4:40)
13. "Like Him" (4:38)
14. "Balloon" (2:34)
15. "I Hope You Find Your Way Home" (4:29)

CHROMATROPIA:

• Ambiguous Gender Identity: In "Sticky" just before the chorus he states:

  "N*gga, give a fuck 'bout pronouns, I'm that n*gga and that bitch.

  • Which could be interpreted as experiences by people under the Multigender umbrella.
• Amicable Exes: "Judge Judy" shows Tyler falling for a girl named Judy, and entering a sexual relationship with her, as he is open to trying out new fetishes and kinks of her with an open mind. The song ultimately ends with Judy breaking up with him through a letter, explaining that she was grateful for her time with him and she wishes him the best for his future. She has a perfectly good reason for leaving, see Secretly Dying below.
• Bookends: "St. Chroma" and "I Hope You Find Your Way Home" have a couple of parallelisms that serve as meaningful cappers to the album:
  • The first sung lyric in "St. Chroma" and the final sung lyric in "I Hope You Find Your Way Home" are both an Album Title Drop of "CHROMAKOPIA".
  • "St. Chroma" begins with Tyler's mother telling him not to dim the light that's in him for anyone, and "I Hope You Find Your Way Home" ends with Tyler's mother telling him that she's proud of him and further telling him to keep shining, mirroring the opening monologue.
• Breaking Old Trends: CHROMAKOPIA breaks two trends that were prominent in his previous albums. Each album releasing two years apart from each other (CHROMAKOPIA released a year after The Estate Sale and three years after CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST) and the tenth track containing two songs or more (The tenth track on the album is a singular track "Tomorrow"). It becomes an Invoked Trope in the opening track "ST CHROMA":
  Give a fuck about traditions, stop impressing the dead.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Subverted. Tyler has spent many years expressing how much he hates his father for not being in his life, but in "Like Him" during the ending monologue, of Tyler's mother reveals it was her fault for his dad's absence and that he actually wanted to be there for Tyler.
• Darker and Edgier: IGOR and CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST were no strangers to heartbreak and the latter notoriously ends on a massive Downer Ending, but CHROMAKOPIA ups the ante by employing deeply personal, introspective lyrics exploring a wide spectrum of negative emotions and personal issues in Tyler's past and present. The instrumentals also fall under this, ditching the funk and sunny hip hop beats in favour of dark, heavy beats and melancholy, depressive melodies.
• Mood Whiplash: If you're listening to the album in order, at the end of "Like Him", Tyler's mother is giving her upsetting, heartfelt monologue about the truth about Tyler's dad not being in his life but as soon as it ends, it transitions to the next song, "Balloon" which features a more fun and bouncy vibe contrasting to the previous song that catches a lot of people off guard.
• Pregnancy Scare: "Hey Jane" tells a story about an unplanned pregnancy which is told between two different perspectives, Tyler and Jane (the girl he got pregnant) as they talk through what to do. It displays feelings of shock, uncertainty, fear and anxiety.
• Secretly Dying: "Judge Judy" shows Tyler falling for a girl named Judy, and entering a sexual relationship with her, as he is open to trying out new fetishes and kinks of her with an open mind. The song ultimately ends with Judy telling him goodbye through a letter, explaining that she has died from an unspecified cancer, and that she was grateful for her time with him and doesn't want him to feel sad over her death.

• So Proud of You: The final message from Tyler's mother in "I Hope You Find Your Way Home" is of her tearfully telling Tyler how proud she is of him and to keep shining his light.
• Special Guest: Lola Young in "Like Him".
• Wham Episode: After spending many songs talking about his absentee father, usually insulting him, the song "LIKE HIM" has him talk about how much he resembles his father and ends with a recording of Tyler's own mother talking about his father, letting him (and by extension, the audience) know what really went down.
  "It was my fault, not yours, not his, it was my fault, I'm sorry. You know, it was my fault, not him, 'cause he always wanted to be there for you. And I'm sorry, I was young, but he's always wanted to be a father to you. So I-- I fucked up and I take ownership of that, of my choices and decisions, and I'm sorry for that. He's a good guy, so don't hold that against him, because it was my fault. Just, you know, forgive me."