Tyla Yaweh plays Music Hall at New World Brewery in Tampa, Florida on Saturday, April 12, 2025. Credit: Photo via tylayaweh/Facebook
Commercially, at least, it’s never a bad idea to go country.

Just ask Post Malone and one of his proteges Tyla Yaweh. The 29-year-old Orlando-born rapper has the same manager as Posty and recently made an entry into country—a genre where Malone’s F-1 Trillion went No. 1—with “New Boots” recorded alongside emergent pop-country star Zay Wilson.

He hasn’t gone full yeehaw though. The rapper gave social media followers a taste this week of his upcoming single, “I can be petty too.”

Tickets for Tyla Yaweh happening Saturday, April 12 are still available at $20.

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This article appears in Apr 3-9, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...