Cameron Tyler x Ace Gabbana - Lil Baby (Official Video)

Real, authentic and vulnerable… Those are the three words best used to describe Flint, Michigan’s Cameron Tyler. The young artist from the Upper Midwest made a name for himself in music when he was younger, but then took a four-year hiatus from the industry after getting burned out from bad deals and internal politics. He thought he was done with music for good, but when 2020 came around and all of the stresses along with it, he found himself turning to music as an emotional outlet. His love for creative expression through sound and style re-emerged and for most of last year, he created hit after hit.

Formerly known as the artist Caution, Tyler said he learned the hard way how the music industry works when he signed a bad deal about six years ago. He’d been making music for years prior to that though, getting his start at a very young age. He opened for artist I Wayne at just 8 years old, and had recorded some singles through his teenage years. But the deal he signed with a label caused him to have to sacrifice creative control of his music, and once that deal was done, he walked away from music. He said 2020 however, brought about some things that caused him to turn back to music, and in the process, he discovered he had a more mature take on his songwriting and production.