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Don't Tap the Glass
2025 studio album by Tyler, the Creator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Don't Tap the Glass (stylized in all caps) is the ninth studio album by American rapper and producer Tyler, the Creator. It was released through Columbia Records on July 21, 2025. The album includes guest appearances from American singer-songwriters Pharrell Williams (under both his name and his alter ego, Sk8brd), Madison McFerrin, and Yebba. Serving as the follow-up to his previous album, Chromakopia (2024), Tyler solely produced all ten tracks on it.
Don't Tap the Glass was supported by its lead and only single, "Ring Ring Ring", which was sent to US rhythmic radio on July 30, 2025.[1] The album received generally positive reviews from critics and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Its release date coincides with the eighth anniversary of Tyler's fifth studio album, Flower Boy (2017). Don't Tap the Glass was teased three days prior to release through art installations during Tyler's Chromakopia: The World Tour, along with a website that promoted merchandise that was associated with the album's title. Heavy speculation regarding the album's guest appearances and track listing, fuelled by early media reports, was debunked by Tyler in the lead-up to the release. On July 20, a listening party was held by him in Los Angeles, California, with 300 guests in attendance, promoting a ban on cell phones and cameras.
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Background and release
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The album was recorded during Tyler's Chromakopia: The World Tour.[2]
The title was first used during a concert at Barclays Center on July 18, 2025, as part of Chromakopia: The World Tour; an art installation was outside the venue, featuring a figure enclosed in a clear box, with the title written on the front. An identical art installation appeared at the World Trade Center.[3] Tyler, who had previously[when?] been teasing something scheduled for July 21,[4] also shouted the title to the crowd.[5] Following the concert, the Golf Wang website was updated with new merchandise—including vinyl records, T-shirts, and hats—featuring the album's branding.[6][7] On July 19, a website (donttaptheglass.com) was established, promoting the album and selling merchandise branded with the album's title. The website also displayed three boxes in blue, yellow, and red, respectively, with cryptic messages.[7]
A fabricated track listing was reposted on Twitter by Complex magazine on July 19, 2025, showing guest appearances from Kendrick Lamar and Earl Sweatshirt, among others. The post gained traction with fans, until Tyler responded, saying that the information was false; Complex subsequently deleted the tweet and apologized.[8] Tyler also denied speculation that the album would be a concept album.[5] In an interview with Zane Lowe, Tyler described the album's quick rollout as "freeing", stating: "I didn't want to spend three years and try to be super innovative. [...] Bro, I made an album, I was done."[9] He stated the goal of the album was "to be fun and say outrageous shit and say shit that… inside jokes that me and my friends laugh at, and just talk big fly shit" and that he "just wanted to be silly again."[10]
On the eve of the album's release, Tyler held a listening party at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, promoting it saying "Don’t Come If You Aren’t Going To Dance".[11][12] Afterwards, he told fans it was one of the "greatest nites [sic] of my life", and encouraged listeners to enjoy the album "at full volume" while "dancing, driving, [or] running".[13][14][15] Through a social media statement, Tyler spoke openly about the effects of video recordings at concerts, attributing it to the decline of dancing:[13]
"I asked some friends why they don't dance in public and some said because of the fear of being filmed. I thought damn, a natural form of expression and a certain connection they have with music is now a ghost. It made me wonder how much of our human spirit got killed because of the fear of being a meme, all for having a good time... This album was not made for sitting still. Dancing driving running any type of movement is recommended to maybe understand the spirit of it. Only at full volume."
— Tyler, the Creator
Don't Tap the Glass was released on July 21, 2025, through Columbia Records.[14]
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Promotion
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Hours after the album's release, Tyler, the Creator released a music video for "Stop Playing with Me", which featured cameos from Clipse (brothers Pusha T and Malice), LeBron James, and Maverick Carter.[16]
In the following days after, Tyler released five videos with the songs "Sucka Free", "Don't Tap That Glass / Tweakin'", "Ring Ring Ring" and "Big Poe" to further promote the album, these videos would consist of people dancing to the album and flashing the logo of the album in the last few seconds. The videos with "Don't Tap That Glass / Tweaking" were released separately rather than both parts being in one video. The video for the second part of "Don't Tap That Glass / Tweaking" was released early via a locked Instagram story on Tyler's Instagram page.
On July 23, 2025, Tyler held a second listening party in the Under the ‘K’ Bridge Park in Brooklyn, New York.[17] A music video for "Sugar on My Tongue", directed by Tyler himself, was released on August 12, 2025.[18]
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Composition
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Don't Tap the Glass has been described by journalists as a hip-hop,[19] dance,[20][21] house,[22][21] funk[21][22] and techno album.[22] At twenty-eight minutes and thirty seconds in length, Don't Tap the Glass is the shortest studio album in Tyler, the Creator's discography[23] and the second-shortest release overall, behind the ten minutes and twenty-two seconds EP Music Inspired by Illumination & Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018).[citation needed] Don't Tap the Glass has 10 tracks—the smallest number of tracks on any studio album from Tyler.[citation needed]
The opening track "Big Poe" samples "Roked" by Shye Ben Tzur at the start of the track, and samples "Pass the Courvoisier, Part II" by Busta Rhymes, featuring Sean Combs and Pharrell Williams.[24] The seventh track, "Don't Tap That Glass / Tweakin'" is a New Orleans bounce song.[10] The eighth track, "Don't You Worry Baby", contains elements of Atlanta bass and Miami bass.[10] The ninth track, "I'll Take Care of You", is a jungle song[10] and samples "Cherry Bomb" by Tyler, the Creator and "Knuck If You Buck" by Crime Mob, featuring Lil Scrappy.[25]
Critical reception
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Don't Tap the Glass received positive reviews from music critics. According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Don't Tap the Glass received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 78 out of 100 from 10 critic scores.[27] The review aggregator site AnyDecentMusic? compiled 8 reviews and gave the album an average of 7.1 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.[26]
John Amen's review for The Line of Best Fit concludes that "Tyler doesn't break new ground as much as he amends the soil that's already there" and that it emphasizes how multifaceted he is.[31] Shahzaib Hussain of Clash described the album as a "mash-up of shrewd and slinky dancefloor capers that dials back the conceptual overload, hits the reset button and revels in fun."[28] Writing for HotNewHipHop, Gabriel Bras Nevares gave the album a positive review, calling it the "shortest, sweetest, most blunt, and most smack-talking LP in his entire discography."[19]
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Commercial performance
In the United States, Don't Tap the Glass debuted atop the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 197,000 album-equivalent units, consisting of 93.34 million on-demand streams and 128,000 pure album sales, earning Tyler, the Creator his fourth consecutive number one album on the chart.[36]
Track listing
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All tracks are written and produced by Tyler Okonma, with additional writers noted.[37]
- ^[a] "Big Poe" contains a sample of "Pass the Courvoisier, Part II", written by Chad Hugo, Jermaine Denny, Trevor Smith, and Pharrell Williams, and performed by Busta Rhymes, featuring P. Diddy and Williams; and contains a sample of "Roked", written by Shye Ben Tzur, and performed by Jonny Greenwood, the Rajasthan Express, and Tzur.
- ^[b] "Mommanem" contains a sample of "Montagehalle", written by Tommi Eckart and Nicholas Deinhardt, and performed by Gorilla Aktiv.
- ^[c] "Ring Ring Ring" contains a sample of "All in the Way You Get Down", written by Ray Parker, Jr., and performed by Parker, Jr. and Raydio.
- ^[d] "Don't Tap That Glass / Tweakin" contains a sample of "Dope Fiend Beat", written by Todd Shaw, and performed by Too Short; and contains a sample of "Meet Yo Maker", written and performed by Tommy Wright III.
- ^[e] "Don't You Worry Baby" contains an interpolation of "Let Me Ride", written by Carlos Morgan, Isiah Pinkney, Robert "Flash" Gordon, and performed by 12 Gauge.
- ^[f] "I'll Take Care of You" contains samples of "Cherry Bomb", written and performed by Tyler, the Creator;[25] and contains a sample of "Knuck If You Buck", written by Brittany Carpentero, Chris Henderson, Jarques Usher, Jonathan Lewis, and Venetia Lewis, and performed by Crime Mob.
- Tyler, the Creator uses the sample of "King of the Beats" by Mantronix countless times, especially from tracks like "Sugar on My Tongue"[40] and "Don't You Worry Baby"[41]
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Personnel
Credits adapted from Qobuz.
- Tyler, the Creator – executive production, production (all tracks), recording (all tracks)
- Ron "T.nava" Avant – vocoder (tracks 2–3, 6)
- Vic Wainstein – recording (tracks 2–3, 6, 8–10)
- Ivan Marcelo – assistant recording (tracks 3, 6)
- Garrett Duncan – assistant recording (track 8)
- Danforth Webster – assistant recording (track 9)
- Collin Clark – assistant recording (track 10)
- Neal H Pogue – mixing (all tracks)
- Zachary Acosta – assistant mixing (all tracks)
- Mike Bozzi – mastering (all tracks)
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