Tyron (2021) arrived almost exactly two years after his debut album
Nothing Great about Britain (2019). The intervening period witnessed Slowthai’s popular and critical success, as well as a backlash prompted by the rapper’s public behavior. More significantly, the period saw the outbreak and intensification of the global pandemic that continues to claim lives.
On
Tyron (which is Slowthai’s real first name), the rapper engages little with social developments, instead taking stock of his own strengths and weaknesses as a step toward personal growth. The album may represent a reflective stage through which Slowthai must pass before he can move on to other things.