Like most, I first came across Tyga via his single “Coconut Juice”(pause) early last year. The video was lavish, and as he was/is signed to Young Money/Decaydence  – it featured cameos from Lil Wayne, Fallout boy’s Pete Wentz and his cousin Travis from Gym Class heroes. The song was admittedly rather cheese, but no more so than everything else which was going on at the time.  Combined with the star power cosigning him I figured hearing much more of that song and him would be a no brainer.

It was not to be though, and until Jordan showed me this a couple months back I thought he’d disappeared off the planet.  “Live Forever” caught me offguard, with Tyga’s flow sounding reminiscent of some mid 90’s New York shit. In fact his get up even looks like something Shyheim woulda worn.

Now he’s back with a new vid, and he seems to be distancing himself even further from the pop lane they initially tried to carve out for him. Still goin hard, but the content and video is L.A all day on this one. Mean shit, don’t write him off just yet.

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