Tyler, the Creator delivered a rollicking new video for Chromakopia’s “Darling, I,” and it’s got more cameos than your FYP. The self directed visual unfolds like a retro rom com scavenger hunt, with Tyler wooing a rotating cast of “darlings”; Ayo Edebiri (again reuniting like he did in Noid), Nia Long, Willow Smith, Lauren London, Lionel Boyce, Teezo Touchdown (who’s also on the track), and more, each in their own quirky vignette.

Tyler ups the symbolism game by literally gifting a beating heart. Whether riding shotgun with Nia Long or sharing a photobooth pose with Willow, the heart-in-a-box is part poetic flex, part dark humor like eo lovestruck surrealism.

“Darling, I” lifts from Chromakopia, a 2024 album known for its kaleidoscopic, genre bending yet melodious palette and Tyler isn’t done mining it yet, even as he’s touring and evolving the narrative around his art.

Lyrically, the song is half confession, half swagger, Tyler raps about polyamory, fleeting romance, and being “lonely with these Grammys” if he can’t settle down. It’s sweet, sad, self-aware, and all tangled up in his trademark charisma.

On Stankulture, we stan creativity that holds narrative beyond flex. With “Darling, I”, Tyler isn’t just making a music video. He’s crafting a hilarious, eerie reminder: love’s complicated, weird, and best served with a little drama and a cameo or twenty.