Which is easier when there are so many people in the crowd with underage Xs markered on their hands, yelling along with the group: “KILL PEOPLE, BURN SHIT, FUCK SCHOOL.” But it’s amazing how many people clearly want it to be true crave the general feeling of its being true and are ready to invest that enthusiasm into Odd Future specifically. I’m not even sure what it would mean for that to be true. A thirtysomething guy in back ventured that it was like we were seeing Nirvana in 1991. The rappers move around the stage inhumanly quickly, like someone has them on fast-forward. The group’s tracks sound terrific live, full of grim flabby bass and wild confidence. Group leader Tyler, the Creator perched atop a speaker stack like a gargoyle, rapping in his raspy grumble the sound of an energetic teenager challenging a sour old sack of bile then looked down and announced, “I could die right now!” beaming like a happy child. A guy named Kyle may have had his nose broken, but didn’t seem to mind. On Friday afternoon, adjacent a skate ramp in East Austin, they brought just the right amount of chaos: an unmanageable entry line, fans jumping fences and climbing trees, rapper Hodgy Beats staggering around on the stage’s roof and plummeting into the audience, a couple dozen kids shoving through the gate and barreling into the crowd. The level of energy surrounding Odd Future at SXSW last week was incredibly high.
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