I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone, Music Now. Today I'm bringing you an interview with Tizo Touchdown,

a really interesting rapper and singer who's been everywhere recently. A few days after we talked, he popped up on the new Drake album,

For All the Dogs.

On the track, Amen.

Pray until you find Amen.

And then.

That's gonna a couple of weeks after the release of Tiza's own debut.

How do you sleep in night? An unabashed rap rock album. That, by the way, it, tell it, make it tell it.

Ooh, easy.

I'm trying to make it too easy.

Trying to make, trying to make, trying to make,

trying to make, trying to make it out. That, by the way,

Drake called the best music ever.

Tizo was also featured on Travis Scott's Utopia.

We recently did an episode on that album.

And on Lil Yotti's own rock album, Let's Start Here here which we also talked about at the time

Tizo grew up in Beaumont Texas he played trombone and marching band and his dad was a

DJ so music was always around him he's had what sounds like a long rocky path to the music business,

including his own time as a DJ and a period when he found himself sleeping in this car

as he commuted to Houston from Beaumont for a restaurant job to fund his music career.

As we discuss, something about Tizos persona and music tends to spark polarized reactions.

And his new album, which again fits into the long and sometimes checkered history of rap rock more than any other category

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