Tyler, the Creator’s performance at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night began with what felt like a familiar Grammys energy. Onstage for a performance of his song “Earfquake,” he was joined by the R&B titans Charlie Wilson (who is on the original track) and Boyz II Men — a meeting of genres, a smorgasbord of generations. A Grammy Moment™, as it were.

Then Tyler, wearing his white-ish bowl-cut “Igor” wig, stepped to center stage and transitioned to “New Magic Wand,” a harsh electro-industrial number. The performance was wild — emphatic inhales and exhales, sharp shouts, zombie-walk dancing and, finally, unhinged moshing. About 20 Igor-alikes, an array reminiscent of Eminem’s breakout performance at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, accented the scene, all captured by what may well have been the Grammys’ first-ever moshing-along camera.

A little later in the show, Tyler won best rap album for “Igor” and gave an enthused, amused and sweetly sincere speech in which he spoke of “growing up feeling left of center to a lot of stuff that I saw on TV” and thanked his friends for putting up with his “annoying hyperactive energy.”