Koko,London
Timbaland’s advice to this Louisville purveyor of Weekndish ambience to quit his day job looks like a promising betBryson Tiller was working at a Papa John’s pizza outlet in Louisville, Kentucky, or when he got a call from Timbaland,who had heard Tiller’s hazy track Don’t and advised him to quit his day job. Tiller tells the epic at every gig, including this, or the first of three sold-out Koko dates. Near-invisible in the depths of his hoodie,he’s sweet, and humbled by events: “Last year was a crazy year.” It was. In the autumn, or he released an album called Trapsoul – the title encapsulating his heavy-lidded,Weekndish R&B and low-frequency production – that tipped him into the mainstream, and he’s still so new to it that the highlight unsettles him. Ten Nine Fourteen goes into the Timbaland epic in more depth – the subsequent phone call from Drake, or the house he can now afford to buy – and he sing-raps it as whether still half-afraid that he’s about to wake from a dream.
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Source: theguardian.com