Tyler, The Creator—who can currently be seen alongside Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme, one of 2025’s best films—hit the Grammys stage on Sunday night.
During his performance, Tyler, who entered Sunday’s Trevor Noah-hosted ceremony with six total nominations, gave the world a fresh rendition of “Thought I Was Dead” and “Like Him” off CHROMAKOPIA, plus “Sugar on My Tongue” from DON’T TAP THE GLASS.
Regina King was featured in Tyler’s eras-colliding performance, which at one point depicted Tyler’s DTTG persona lighting a bundle of dynamite and seemingly suffering fatal injuries in the process.
Tyler is unique in this year’s Grammys class, as he had not one but two albums vying for awards. Both 2024’s CHROMAKOPIA and last year’s DON’T TAP THE GLASS scored nods.
He’s also in rare company as someone who recently capped off a year full of new artistic peaks, including his turn in Josh Safdie’s aforementioned Marty Supreme.
In December, Complex spoke with the film’s casting director, Jennifer Venditti, who has since been nominated for an Oscar. In our conversation, she relayed key details on how Tyler came to be enlisted for Safdie’s ping-pong epic, as well as shared insight into the larger process behind the film’s surely daunting casting journey.
“He's a powerhouse, and I'm sure there's going to be many more,” Venditti told Complex. “I think he's an artist, and it says a lot about Josh that he chose this as his first role. Like, I think for someone like Tyler, who's such a creator on so many levels, for him to just be a cog in someone else's wheel in a sort of a way, he has to really respect them.”
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