Okonma won Best New Artist for "Yonkers" at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. An extended version with a third verse was made available on iTunes. The video received attention from several online media outlets. On February 11, 2011, Okonma released the music video for " Yonkers". The mixtape was eventually ranked 32nd on Pitchfork Media's list of the Top Albums of 2010. On December 25, 2009, Okonma self-released his first solo mixtape, Bastard. They self-released their debut mixtape, The Odd Future Tape, in November 2008. Okonma co-founded the alternative hip hop collective Odd Future in 2007, alongside Hodgy, Left Brain, and Casey Veggies. Career 2007–2011: Odd Future, Bastard, and Goblin Okonma took his stage name from a Myspace page he used to post his creative endeavors. He worked at FedEx for just under two weeks and at Starbucks for over two years. In the eighth grade, Okonma joined the drama class and was kicked out due to being too hyper, and in the ninth grade, Okonma was not allowed to join the band class because he could not read music. In his 12 years of schooling, he attended 12 different schools in the Los Angeles and Sacramento areas. ![]() At the age of 14, he taught himself to play the piano. At the age of seven, he would take the cover out of a CD case and create covers for his own imaginary albums-including a tracklist with song lengths-before he could even make music. He never met his father and spent his early life living in Hawthorne, moving to Ladera Heights at 17. Tyler Gregory Okonma was born on March 6, 1991, in Hawthorne, California, the son of a Nigerian father with Igbo ancestry and an American mother of mixed African-American and European-Canadian descent.
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