It was your typical low-key entrance. Accompanied by jets of flame and dry ice, Bryson Tiller bounded on in a jacket festooned with orange LED lights and launched into a strident rendition of his 2016 single Sorry Not Sorry. The manic crowd lapped it up. The singer-rapper from Louisville, Kentucky, is another young star sitting on the junction of hip-hop and R&B. Woozy braggadocio, collaborations with Drake and Justin Bieber, three Grammy nominations, 28 million monthly listeners on Spotify — it sounds like a familiar tune.
Yet Tiller, 31, isn’t the cookie-cutter figure he appears, having talked about suffering from depression before making his 2017 album, True to Self, and disowning that record; ironically, given its title, he thinks he pandered to cyberbullies
