At Camp Flog Gnaw, Tyler, the Creator, Kendrick Lamar and Ice Spice bring star power
LA TimesDay 1 of Tyler, the Creator’s sold-out Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, held at Dodger Stadium, featured Compton’s Kendrick Lamar alongside his cousin, Baby Keem, a pair of Latin music stars, brand new Grammy nominee Ice Spice and the festival organizer himself. But three or four years later, and y’all still care to come.” Without a new project around which to center a performance, Tyler loosely ran through songs old and new, performing two songs off his most recent deluxe album “Call Me If You Get Lost: Estate Sale.” The set felt slightly less dressed-up than past Tyler shows; rather than elaborate outfit changes into the blond wig and pastel suits of the Igor era, he sported a Golf Le Fleur T-shirt and baseball cap from start to finish, performing in front of a junkyard-themed backdrop that remained the same aside from the changing digital sky. Though she’s been playing Flog Gnaw since 2016 — a year before she and Tyler released “See You Again,” which never seems to leave the Spotify Top 50 for long — Uchis returned Saturday as a true star of the streaming age thanks in part to the success of her 2020 single “Telepatía,” which she said changed her life even though she made it “in the middle of what we didn’t know would be a pandemic”; her luxurious stage show framed her as a diva surrounded by dancers attending to her every need. A short set, stacked with hits “L.A., y’all know I came all the way from the Bronx to see y’all,” Ice Spice told an overflow crowd at the Flog stage, and she wasn’t the only one who’d traveled to be there: No other act I saw Saturday inspired folks to run at full speed across the festival grounds to catch a set as they did for the 23-year-old pop-drill phenom.