"Noid" is a 2024 song by American rapper and producer

Tyler, the Creator Tyler Gregory Okonma (born March 6, 1991), known professionally as Tyler, the Creator, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has been cited as an influential figure in alternative hip-hop during the 2010s. Tyler beca ...

, released as the lead single from his eighth studio album, ''

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''. The song focuses on the

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(cf. "para''noid''") experienced by Tyler as a figure in the public eye. It was released alongside a music video featuring American actress Ayo Edebiri. The song samples "Nizakupanga Ngozi" by Zambian band Ngozi Family from their 1977 album ''45,000 Volts''. The song features background vocals by

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. The vocal sample features lead singer Paul Ngozi singing in his native

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about being respectful when visiting his home.

Music video

The music video was directed by Tyler, the Creator, under his Wolf Haley alias, on October 21, 2024. The video depicts Tyler, the Creator, in his masked St. Chroma persona as he pushes through crowds of people, meeting crazed fans. A woman (played by actress Ayo Edebiri) runs towards Tyler, mocking his old shock value driven personality, such as that on earlier projects such as the '' Bastard'' mixtape or ''

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'' album, by waving a gun in his face and screaming. Several more fans follow and confront Tyler, bearing unsettling grins while the rapper hurriedly tries to get away from them, clearly not wanting to associate with them. Throughout the video, Tyler hallucinates being robbed within his home, being tailed while driving, installing numerous locks on his doors and peeking through a curtain, terrified. It also often cuts to Tyler the Creator dancing in a room with flashing lights and shielding himself from them, likely to symbolize cameras. At the end of the video, Tyler roams around an empty lot with his shadow moving independently from him, before he falls to his knees screaming as the camera moves away from him. At this part of the video, the world is given color, in contrast to the monochrome filter previously over the video, which is also present in the music videos for '' St. Chroma'', '' Sticky'' and ''

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''. Abundance of color is a common theme in ''

.'' The music video for ''Noid'' does not feature the full length of the track, most notably omitting the ''"paranoid, paranoid, paranoid"'' vocal intro and the final verses of the song.

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