Concert Review: Tyla Yaweh Is A Rager Prince
Rage culture is growing in the Hip Hop community; forming a “punk” movement that feels both chaotic and cool. Tyla Yaweh exemplifies this movement by smashing together its seediness and swag. Yes, I said seediness. After all, rage culture is based on the idea of embracing chaos. Why fight that you want to fight, when you can, literally, just fight? THAT FEELING is what will bring Tyla gold because, frankly, people are feeling it more, and he taps into its core with a godly ease. What is its core? Fear.
Listen, I walk with sage sticks everywhere. SERIOUSLY! Yet, that is how I release what I pent up, and the dynamic that I felt between Tyla and his Terminal 5 crowd was the same I felt during a The War On Drugs’ concert. To their audience, these acts were the equivalent to opening up a heart valve of theirs that had clogged with anger and insecurity. He, literally, approaches the crowd with an intimacy you would share with your best friend whom has seen you through your worse. The difference between both acts is that the latter aims for grunge, while Tyla aimed for suave. He is like a fashion show in the middle of a Sid & Nancy break-up scene. The two contrasting energies are brilliant, in part, because they match how we glamorize pain.
I’ll admit it! I am consistently trying to investigate why I love Dateline. It makes no sense to me! Why do we love darkness, color over its shadiness, and put it on loop? Seeing Tyla made me realize that, in a way, there is relief to acknowledging one’s hurt. In this society, it can feel like we either have to swim in our trauma or act like we have never felt or seen it before. Yet, Tyla does something different. He appears life the most effortless “screw you” to a world that has screwed so many over. Naturally, in the post- Covid world, people responded to that. If before Covid, Sad Hip Hop was the movement to watch, Post-Covid marks Rage Hip Hop as its new Spotify Playlist, and Tyla Yaweh has a dominance to watch. For More Information Tyla Click Here.
