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CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST (2021)

Where the lyrics of CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST take you, and where it was really made.

The cover looks like an early-1900s passport, and the 'Tyler Baudelaire' on its ID card is not a nod to the French poet. Tyler says the reference comes from Lemony Snicket's novels.

Key places

Westlake Recording Studios (2021)

Recording site Westlake Recording Studios — Listed among the studios where the album was recorded. The source gives the location as Los Angeles, so the pin marks the city-level studio site. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Conway Recording Studios (2021)

Recording site Conway Recording Studios — Listed among the studios where the album was recorded. The source gives the location as Los Angeles, so the pin marks the city-level studio site. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Chalice Recording Studios (2021)

Recording site Chalice Recording — Listed among the studios where the album was recorded. The source gives the location as Los Angeles, so the pin marks the city-level studio site. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Shangri-La Studios, Malibu (2021)

Recording site Shangri-La — Listed among the studios where the album was recorded, in Malibu, California. The pin marks the studio's listed location. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Call Me If You Get Lost is the seventh studio album by American rapper and producer Tyler, the Creator
• Released June 25, 2021 through Columbia Records
• Narrated by DJ Drama
• Guest appearances from 42 Dugg, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Ty Dolla Sign, Lil Wayne, Domo Genesis, Brent Faiyaz, Lil Uzi Vert, Pharrell Williams, Teezo Touchdown, Fana Hues, and Daisy World
• Tyler produced the album himself, with additional production by Jamie xx and Jay Versace
• Genres span hip-hop, pop, jazz, soul and reggae

Background

• Marks a departure from the lighter, more soulful aesthetics of Igor (2019) and Flower Boy (2017)
• Favors bold beats and raw rhymes reminiscent of his earlier work
• Influenced by DJ Drama's Gangsta Grillz mixtape series
• Supported by two singles, Lumberjack and WusYaName, each released with a music video
• Deluxe version, Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale, followed in 2023

Cover

• Depicts an identification card for a character named Tyler Baudelaire
• Some critics read this as a reference to the French poet Charles Baudelaire, but Tyler has said that is not true
• Tyler attributes the reference to Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Inspired by old passports and travel cards from the early 1900s

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Tracklist

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Artist

Formation

• Tyler Gregory Okonma, born March 6, 1991, in Hawthorne, California.
• Co-founded the alternative hip-hop collective Odd Future in 2007 with Hodgy, Left Brain, and Casey Veggies.
• Released the self-produced debut album Bastard in 2009.

Members

• Solo artist known as Tyler, the Creator, and the founder and leader of Odd Future.

Career

• Goblin (2011) brought mainstream attention through the single "Yonkers" and its music video.
• Wolf (2013) marked a shift away from horrorcore toward jazz, soul, and R&B.
• Flower Boy (2017) received widespread critical acclaim and commercial success.
• Igor (2019) and Call Me If You Get Lost (2021) both debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and won Best Rap Album at the Grammy Awards.
• Chromakopia (2024) and Don't Tap the Glass (2025) also debuted at number one in the U.S.
• Founded the clothing brands Golf Wang and Le Fleur, and the Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival festival.
• Has won three Grammy Awards in total.

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Reception

At release

• NME: called it an all-encompassing culmination of Tyler's ever-varying sound
• The Guardian: called the stylistic shifts unexpected and hugely impressive
• Financial Times: called the production densely layered and quixotic
• The Independent: gave five out of five stars and called it the apotheosis of Tyler's past works
• Pitchfork: said Tyler was more adept than ever at weaving different ideas into one cohesive song
• Clash: praised his refusal to be caged in by any set sound or genre
• Paste: gave 8.7 out of 10
• Rolling Stone: called it Tyler's best work to date
• AllMusic: said it is his most complex album to date
• Metacritic: average score of 88 based on 20 reviews
• AnyDecentMusic?: 8.4 out of 10

Records

• Debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 169,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, including 55,000 pure album sales
• Tyler's second US number-one album
• Thirteen songs reached the Billboard Hot 100, with WusYaName in the top 20
• Returned to number one in April 2022 after the vinyl release, with 49,000 copies sold that week
• That vinyl week is the largest for a hip hop album
• RIAA double platinum on October 28, 2025, for over 2,000,000 units in the US
• First and only album to top the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in three different years
• Won Best Rap Album at the 2022 Grammy Awards

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Trivia

• The cover was first thought to borrow from Ol' Dirty Bastard's 1995 album, but Tyler said he drew on old passports and travel cards
• The billboard phone number played a recorded conversation between Tyler and his mother, which appears on the album as Momma Talk
• The Lumberjack video was directed by Tyler under his alter-ego Wolf Haley
• The Estate Sale adds songs recorded for this album that did not make the final cut
• Tyler called this the first album he made with many songs that did not make the final cut
• Lemonhead includes uncredited spoken word by Frank Ocean

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