South African superstar Tyla (@tyla) joins Dotty on The Dotty Show on Apple Music 1 to discuss new single “DYNAMITE” with Wizkid, her experience of blowing up overnight following the viral success of “Water,” what she’s learnt since then, her love for experimenting sonically, and whether there’s a new project in the works.
Tyla – The Dotty Show
Tyla Opens Up On Pressure And Wishing She Had More Time Before The Overnight Fame That Came From Hit Single ‘Water’…
Tyla: To be honest. Yeah. I kind of had a way I wanted to do this and a way I thought things would’ve happened, but God obviously rushed that process for me. So last year, there were a lot of times where I felt like, damn, I wish I had a little bit more time before the world saw my rough drafts, before the world saw me figuring things out, because when ‘Water’ blew up, I was still learning myself as an artist. I haven’t performed much. When ‘Water’ blew up, I performed on just bar tables, clubs in South Africa, on the bar tables with my best friend, DJing. I never had that much experience until obviously I was thrown in the deep end with the Chris Brown tour, and then ‘Water’ blew up. It just felt like constantly God was just making me teaching me how to swim just by throwing me in.
So yeah, it was hectic for a while because I felt like I just wanted to still experiment, but I had to get everything right straight away because the world was like, okay, well now you’re here. Let’s see if you’re going to live up to it. So it was like, yeah, it was kind of difficult, but I’m happy that I went through it because I’m now at a point where I really am just the most creative I’ve been. I’m just doing whatever I want to do, and if I don’t like it a month from now, it’s like, whatever, I did it. I tried it. So yeah, I’m having fun.
Tyla Opens Up On Her New Love For Experimenting Sonically And If There’s A New Project On The Way…
Tyla: The music that I’m releasing and making now, I really feel like I’m in a stage of experimenting again. So I kind of just want to do whatever, make whatever I want to rap. I want to sing pop. I want to try a bunch of stuff and not have so much pressure on putting it in an album yet, because I feel like I’ll know when I want to drop an album, but I might change my mind and drop one next month. I changed my mind a lot, but I think with this music that I’m releasing now, there’s definitely more that’s coming, and that feels very different. I know a lot of people feel like the music I make is similar, but I feel like a lot of the stuff that I’ve been making that’s coming a bit down the line, I don’t think could stand next to ‘Water’ and be the same. So I’m excited about that.
Tyla Discusses Coming To Terms With Superstardom And The Biggest Lesson Learnt In The Last Two Years…
Tyla: In terms the way of detachment. No, I mean in terms of I learned that now that I’m here, my life and what I do is now for the world. I have some things that are private to me, but there’s only so much you can control. You kind of have to let go a lot in the industry. You have to let people think whatever they think. You can’t fight everyone if people say things about you. You kind of have to let it go and be so confident in yourself that that doesn’t matter. It doesn’t phase you that. And also just knowing that if something had happened, you got to move on, you got to keep going. You can’t let things slow you down. Yeah, you have to just keep going and hitting them harder.
Tyla Opens Up On How She Met Wizkid and Their New Song ‘DYNAMITE’ Being Three Years In The Making…
Tyla: I love the story. It was so insane. I went to Nigeria for the first time, and I was in the hotel lobby, and I literally saw Wizkid in the lobby go into the elevator, and I was like, what the heck? There’s no way. I just saw Wizkid. I’m a huge fan. He’s a legend, a loving legend, literally, especially for us people in Africa. He’s it. So I was so excited and I was like, “Hey, lemme just take a chance”. And I DMed him. I was like, I saw you in the lobby. Can I come play you some music? And he answered, and he’s like, yeah, come. Then I went upstairs with Uncle Colin over there and I played him some stuff. I played him disco, that song that my tigers are hounding me for, and he liked it too, and he invited me to go do some sessions with him in Ghana.
So I went. I was like, Hey, I told them to book my ticket right now. I went and I stayed close by and I just waited for him to keep me up and let me know come to the studio. This is 2022, so that was a long time ago, and he hit me up. I went to him and we were just talking for a while, and then Prime P was busy playing around in the other room, and I heard the beat and it was hot, and I just told Wiz like, hold on, let me just go lay something. And yeah, I just freestyled some vibes on the beat and he liked it, so I wrote to it and he freestyled some stuff, and I just had that demo since 2022. I was jamming to that demo till 2025. So three years, I was living off that demo, and I just knew, hey, one day the song is going to have to come out. And when I thought about ‘We Want to Party’ and this mixtape and everything, I went back to all my demos, and I sent it to him again. I said, Hey, don’t forget our song. And he finished it with me.
Listen to Tyla & Wizkid’s “DYNAMITE” Single
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