A Boy Is a Gun

"A Boy Is a Gun" (stylized in all caps and with an asterisk in the end) is a song by American rapper Tyler, the Creator from his fifth album Igor.

In addition, a short snippet music video was also directed by Tyler in which his Igor character slowly climbs up a ladder seemingly reaching infinitely into the sky, as a slightly distorted version of the song plays in the background.

Notably, at the beginning of the video, a lightning bolt is shown flashing in the sky, which could possibly be a reference to the novel that Igor gets its title from: Frankenstein, a story in which electricity is a key symbol.

The song is inspired by the 1971 French western film Une Aventure de Billy le Kid, also known as "A Girl is a Gun".

[7] The music video was directed by Wolf Haley, with an appearance by Tracee Ellis Ross.

[12] British website NME stated that the song "put its' own spin" on the Ponderosa Twins Plus One track, Bound.