Luh Tyler
Florida Boy
Album · Hip-Hop/Rap · 2025
The Tallahassee teenager went viral at the tender age of 16 with his 2022 single “Law & Order,” where he threatened in a laidback drawl to escort your girl to Waffle House. Three years, a debut mixtape, and a debut album later, the rapper born Tyler Meeks is still a teenager, and still a breath of fresh air among the many young, brooding nihilists of rap’s new generation for his mellow money-making raps that mostly eschew mention of violence and drugs. “This that real Florida music, get you in that mode/This that get-money music, don’t listen if you’re broke,” he murmurs hypnotically in his sandpaper rasp on the title track to his second mixtape, Florida Boy (which follows 2023’s My Vision and 2024’s Mr. Skii). Beat-wise, he favors the sparkly melodies and cavernous baselines of plugg music, though he goes all the way back to 2009 on “Rock N Roll” to channel the tinny jubilance of Fast Life Yungstaz’s “Swag Surfin’.”