Mr. Wyoming Tames the ADHD Bull in His First Rodeo
Everything about Taye, a.k.a Mr. Wyoming, is XXX-rated: Xplode, Xpress, and Xperience. His music is rowdy, his persona is unusual, and he’s a big f*cking hater. But don’t fear – this is all intentional. He doesn’t follow the unwritten rules or trends of mainstream rap, nor does he want to. He’s just unapologetically himself and lets his noise follow suit.
Taye considers himself to be “the embodiment of stimulation”, his music a combination of his shiny passion and overflowing thoughts and creativity, his lyrics an attempt at articulating the pressure of living with ADHD.
“I live under the constant need of stimulation no matter how I try to spin it or get away from it,” he says. “I'm under the constant swell and overwhelming feeling of emotional dysregulation. So I put all that into the music.”
His most recent project, Rodeo, is not only Mr. Wyoming’s debut, but also a perfect execution of Taye’s chaotic vision. The music is loud and choppy, and the lyrics are fast and sloppy in some parts, goofy in others. The song is an overstimulating frenzy that drips with grit and requires at least three listens for you to understand what you just heard. In short – it’s perfectly Taye.
“I clenched my boots [and] I got rowdy,” he says. “I grabbed that bull by the horns and the bull was the beat. I made that bull. I rode that bull.”
The mainstream scene of pop-rap, hyper hip-hop, and TikTok stars is not a place Taye wants to be. He wants to resurrect the rap game of the legends before him, a game of Big Sean-esque punchlines, Frank Ocean-esque narratives, and 50 Cent-esque desire to kill the competition. He’s trading conformity for radicalism, and he’s not backing down.
“I’m not part of the norm,” he says. “I tried to [be] and I wasn’t accepted, so I won’t try to be accepted [anymore]. I will say whatever I want to say, I will be whoever I feel. I’m not afraid to tell you the truth.”
He didn’t always have a healthy way to cope with his condition. It took years of listening and learning for Taye to know what was best for his neurodivergent mind. It took miles of walks and hours of self-talk for him to stop hating the parts of himself that made his life messy and difficult. It wasn’t until he was able to identify his needs and separate himself from parasitic influences that his hatred transformed into love. He became his own best friend, and his musical identity blossomed in the process.
“I love who I am,” he says. “Now, I can write music properly, I can say what’s on my heart [and] my mind… I understand myself enough to know what I want to talk about and who I want to appeal to.”
His alter-ego, Mr. Wyoming, represents the civil union of Taye and his ADHD shadow. They are both themselves and each other, two sides of the same coin irrevocably intertwined and yet autonomous enough to be flipped on and off like a switch. Mr. Wyoming offers the wisdom and Taye offers the tongue to say it.
“Mr. Wyoming knows who he is,” he says. “[He] said it’s not about me no more. There are people out there who are neurodivergent, who have overstimulation [and] need a place not to shut it down and bottle it up like I did, but a place to release it.”
In his young career, Taye has overstimulated listeners with several singles but is currently focused on promoting Rodeo with dreams of one day headlining his own rodeo in Desert Diamond Arena. Until then, he will continue to align his life, music, and personality to his usual standards: F*ck the system, f*ck the algorithm, and f*ck the machine.
