At present, Tyler The Creator is estimated to have a net worth of $6 million. His net worth has grown significantly since the release of his first studio album. He’s dabbled in a lot of things which have handed him many sources of income. The hip-hop star has managed to create a name for himself in the music industry, earning fame and wealth along the way. He has gone on to release a few more independent singles including Okra, 435, and Potato Salad. It scored a nomination at the 60th Annual Grammy Award in the Best Rap Album category. The album received critical acclaim and is considered his most successful project to date. Two years later, Tyler re-entered the music scene with a fourth album, Scum Fuck Flower Boy, which was preceded by a single featuring, titled Who Dat Boy. The set included collaborations with hip-hop favorites such as, SchoolBoy Q, and. Tyler released Cherry Bomb, his third studio album digitally through Odd Future Records on April 13, 2015, while physical copies followed two weeks later and were available in five different album covers. 3 on Billboard’s 200, and selling over 90,000 copies in the first week of its release. The record featured big names like Frank Ocean, Erykah Badu, and. Not one to rest on his oars, the super talented musician began working on his second album, Wolf, which was released in April 2013. One of the album’s singles, Yonkers, won him the Best New Artist accolade at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. It was an experimental album and it did very well on the music charts. He signed a one-album contract with XL Recording, under which he released Goblin, his first studio album. Pitchfork Media ranked the album at number 32 of their Top Albums of 2010 list. As a solo artist, Tyler self-released his debut project, a mixtape titled Bastard in December 2009. They released their debut mixtape the following year garnering an impressive following. In 2007, Tyler The Creator banded a group of artists together and the alternative hip-hop group, Odd Future was born. In the meantime, he began putting some of his work out in public via a MySpace page, which later became the inspiration for his stage name. He worked at FedEx for a couple weeks, then at Starbucks for more than two years. He began working odd jobs to stay afloat. He taught himself to play the piano and soon became very skilled at it.ĭespite his obvious musical talent, Tyler didn’t dive headfirst into show business. When he turned fourteen, his passion for music took on new heat and he decided to learn a musical instrument. When he was seven, he began making his own imaginary albums, complete with covers, tracklist and song lengths, replacing the covers of album cases he could find with his own designs. Tyler’s interest in music began at a young age. In 12 years, he attended 12 different schools spread across Sacramento and Los Angeles. He had a troubling childhood and had to change schools a lot. Tyler was raised with his sister in the neighborhood of his birth. The popular hip-hop artist was born Tyler Gregory Okonma on March 6, 1991, in Ladera Heights, California to a mother of African-American and Canadian descent, and a Nigerian father, whom he has never met.