Tygers school YouTuber Armon Wiggns on his salty take on Tyla

by Staff Bona

Armon Wiggins must have known his comment on Tyla would have caused discourse among X users. And yet he chose to share his thoughts shortly after the amapiano princess made a rousing speech while accepting her MTV VMA for Best Afrobeats artist.

“The global impact that Water has had on the world just proves that African music can be pop music too,” said the 22-year-old singer.

“This is just so special, but also bittersweet because I know there’s a tendency to group all African artists under Afrobeats. It’s a thing, and even though Afrobeats has run things and has opened so many doors for us, African music is so diverse. It’s more than just Afrobeats.”

She added: “I come from South Africa. I represent amapiano. I represent my culture, and I just want to shout out [to] all the Afrobeats artists in this category with me.”

What was meant to be a moment for the Water star was minimised by the YouTuber who completely lost the meaning behind her message.

Taking to X, he said: “Hey I don’t think I like TYLA’s personality I think someone needs to check her cus she doesn’t understand American Culture AT ALL..she almost gives off entitled or uppity African I don’t know how to explain it but it’s very off-putting and it’s almost like she expects people to just fall to her feet.”


Diehard Tyla fans (Tygers) and fellow South Africans came to her defence and quickly put Wiggins in his place.

An X user set him straight and responded: “Now that it, one of y’all has finally said it out loud! This is exactly why u don’t like her. You guys don’t understand that Tyla deserves to be in the rooms she’s in right now. Y’all want her to keep her head down because she made it ‘out of Africa where she lived among lions & tigers’?”


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