CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST is the seventh studio album by Tyler, The Creator. It is the follow-up to his May 2019 LP, IGOR.
The album was first teased by a tag on a trunk that accompanied Tyler at the 2020 Grammy Awards. However, CMIYGL wasn’t assumed to be an album until a billboard was found in Los Angeles in June 2021, which read the album’s title along with a phone number. Over the following days, calling the number played snippets of several tracks on the album, including some that were scrapped. Fans also discovered the album’s website.
On June 16, 2021, Tyler released the album’s lead single, “LUMBERJACK,” alongside its video. The next day, he officially confirmed the album’s title and release date via Twitter.
The album pays homage to 2000s-era mixtapes that were hosted by DJ Drama, who is also the host of this record. It brings full circle a late 2010 tweet in which Tyler declared that he wanted a Gangsta Grillz mixtape.
On April 3, 2022, CMIYGL was awarded the prize for “Best Rap Album” at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, becoming Tyler’s second consecutive album to achieve this milestone in the process, after IGOR had won in the same category at the 2020 edition of the Grammys.
Although Tyler often likes to create characters and stories around his album, with this album he instead enforces that everything is completely personal and grounded in his actual life.
CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, moving 169,000 album-equivalent units (152.96 million on-demand streams and 55,000 in pure sales).
CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST was certified gold by the RIAA on February 22, 2022.
Yes, below you watch the official concert performance of the album’s entirety from June 2021 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York:
The album was awarded with the Best Rap Album at the 2022 GRAMMYs: