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Key Takeaways:

• Tyla’s ‘WWP’ mixtape delivers 4 tracks in 11 minutes, mixing amapiano and pop.
• The undertaking consists of fan-favorite “BLISS,” a Wizkid function on “DYNAMITE,” and a daring message on “MR. MEDIA.”
• ‘WWP’ attracts from a South African chant, displaying how Tyla infuses her heritage into a contemporary pop sound.

Tyla isn’t letting us make it by means of the summer time with no few songs to bounce to. On Friday (July 25), the songstress dropped her eagerly anticipated WWP, quick for “We wanna party.”

Even although it’s billed as a mixtape, the undertaking is on the shorter aspect, particularly contemplating how a lot of it’s model new. There’s “BLISS,” which Tyla first debuted at Coachella again in April, and “IS IT,” a file followers beforehand complained was “too short.” In response, the Grammy Award winner jokingly instructed them to “play it again, [the f**k].”

Of the 2 new songs listeners launched, Wizkid exhibits up because the lone function on “DYNAMITE.” “Why don’t you bring it, come my way?” he sings, earlier than Tyla follows with, “Hold me ’round my waist / We can take it slow, baby, you control the pace / The way I rotate, baby, that’s a little taste.”

From there, the South African singer lets her critics know she’s truly been enjoying it too good on “MR. MEDIA.” She sings, “Remember when I used to fight with words? / Really, I should be worse / I should be meaner.” There are not any skips on WWP, which, to be honest, is sort of anticipated with simply 11 minutes of runtime. However, the undertaking does depart behind loads of curiosity and anticipation for what her sophomore album could bring.

“I’ve been on this tip of just enjoying life, not just partying, but just enjoyment with people that I love, with people that are a vibe,” the “Water” hitmaker said, explaining the which means behind the mixtape’s title. “‘We wanna party’ is actually a South African chant. So we’ve been using it forever, and it’s been a thing for hyping up people and just that feeling of enjoyment. I thought it was perfect for the mixtape ’cause the music screams, ‘We wanna party!’”