Rising artist Tyla Yaweh spent most of his pandemic-forced lockdown at home in Orlando, Florida “on 80 acres of land, doing crazy stuff” -- including paintball wars on motorbikes and swamp fishing. “I was being a Florida boy fa sho,” he says. “Keeping myself together, and staying in the studio" -- and joining peaceful Black Lives Matter protests, too.
But once his latest release -- the alternative-learning hip-hop track “Tommy Lee,” which features close friend Post Malone -- started taking off, he knew he had to return to Los Angeles to capitalize on the momentum. “Everything with the record started going crazy, so I had to make my way back,” says Yaweh, 25.
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