The Florida-born MC just dropped a new set of tracks that prove he’s gunning for the top of the rap game
My Vision
, his Atlantic Records debut, “I wasn’t tryna rap for real, I did that shit on accidental.” For all his natural ability, his lustrous melodies, well-placed bon mots, his feline grace, he only started rhyming last summer. And he certainly wasn’t gunning for the title of hip-hop’s boy wonder. Back then, Tyler was just some Tallahassee kid with curly brown locks who couldn’t be parted from his friends or his trusty hoverboard.
Soon enough, he triumphed with the ultra-mellow “Back Flippin’,” a player’s anthem for the ages, but still, Tyler was unconvinced that big things were afoot. His mind was elsewhere: “I made it so fast,” he says of “Back Flippin’.” “I didn’t think nothing of it. And I was doing a TikTok with somebody that day, so I wanted to hurry up and record. Then it just went viral.”
Some readers will complain that the influencer class has young people in a vise. They will catastrophize Tyler’s seeming lack of discernment and his muddling of wants and needs . But in all the ways that count, Tyler is an old soul. His values — technical precision and lyricism — are recognizably traditional. He takes after his forefathers in other, more tangible ways too.
Refer if you would to his “Law & Order” video, in which he briefly pantomimes a photographer. That one frame captures Tyler’s quintessence; he is easygoing but a master of portraiture. His stated resistance to pen and paper is no impediment. If we’re talking vividity, “Law & Order” is unbeatable in its depiction of Tallahassee at sunset. It’s unbeatable in its depiction of a teenage Mack on the prowl.
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