The inaugural issue of the new GQ Style is the Fall 2018 edition, starring rapper Tyler the Creator. Read some interesting excerpts from the full-spread and interview below.

Where did you get your love of jazz from?
I don’t know. It’s just what my ear gravitates to. My mom played some around the house. But it’s just certain things, musically, that my ears just gravitated to since a young child. And that’s why—HOPE YOU GUYS DON’T GET ATTACKED!

GQ Style: Were you always this encyclopedic about music?
Tyler, the Creator

 Yeah. I didn’t play with toys as a child. I just wanted CDs for my birthday and Christmas, and I would always just sit and read the credits. And to this day, I’ll look at an album, listen to it once, just preview it, and know the tracklist and sometimes, depending on if I like it or not, who wrote it. Just little stupid facts about it. When the person died, maybe.

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You have millions of followers on social media. Your own damn carnival, man. Why is radio important to you in 2018?
I grew up listening to it. Although it’s not the most important thing, there’s still a percentage of me that wants to listen to the radio one day and say, “Oh, that’s my song!” A lot of my favorite artists I heard for the first time because of the radio. I first heard ”Maureen” by Sade on the radio. Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite, his first album, co-written by Leon Ware. I first heard that on the radio. I first heard “Tape You” by N.E.R.D., my favorite band in the world, one of my favorite songs ever, on the radio. And that’s how I got introduced to that, and that shaped everything for me, so. It’s still a piece of me that not only wants to be on the radio, but it’s probably some 11-year-old in the middle of fucking nowhere who might hear a song, look me up, get introduced to a whole world—and that could change everything he’s into for the rest of his life.

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I’d like to talk about the theory that you have about your voice on the radio. Is that why you think you haven’t been on the radio yet?
I hate my voice and I think—it’s not a full thought or theory yet—but I think there are certain voices that can make it into a mainstream world because of the tone that they’re in. People like Jay, ‘Ye, Drake, you know, Kenny. It’s a world that their voice lives in. It’s not too high and squeaky, and it’s not too low and bassy, it’s not too abrasive and raspy. It sits in this space that’s easy listening for humans. And I’m still trying to figure out the science behind it. When I do, I’ll let you know, but I definitely don’t have that voice. And I fucking wish that I did. Stevie Wonder has it, too. It’s a tone that I’m tryna pinpoint. Like, Lloyd Banks was the hardest rapper from G-Unit to me. And you know, he probably didn’t have the same charisma and blah, blah, blah.

Tyler The Creator/GQ Style

Like, obsessive?
Uh, I wouldn’t say obsessive. But I give a fuck. When I like something, you know, I like something. I can’t even eat a good cookie without just smiling. I’m a bad liar with shit like that, and I get obsessive over shit I like at the moment. And then when I’m over it, you’ll never see it again. That’s why I wear outfits for, like, three months in a row. Like, nigga, you’ve worn the same shit… And then you’ll never see it again.

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Is it true that Kanye’s new album made you cry?
Yeah, when I heard “Violent Crimes.” Those chords, like, fucking—I can’t explain what they do to me. I always talk about chords and probably sound like a fucking dork, but since I was fucking 4 years old, I would always say it was a slant or it went up, ’cause I didn’t know what chords were, but it was a thing that music did that I just felt in my fucking body. And that was the most recent song that did it to me. Like, 1 out of 10, that shit did it a 12, and I just—my eyes just started watering. I couldn’t explain it. I hope when I die it gets explained to me.

Also in the issue: designer, Haider Ackermann, the Kings of Streetwear, an updated GQ Style staple: What to Wear Now, fashion from the streets of Senegal, vintage cars, physics-defying architecture, a profile of iconic artist Henry Taylor, and more, read here.