Sleeping in his car a year before Trapsoul

Bryson Tiller is a singer from Louisville, Kentucky. In an interview published in October 2015, when he was 22, he spoke about how different his life had become in a single year. The article says that just a year earlier he had been living in his car and working three jobs while creating music. It does not use the word homeless, and it does not say where he parked or how long he stayed in the car.

Tiller described the contrast himself. He said that he had really been living the struggle and was not living it anymore, and that he used to sleep in his car and now spends a lot of time on the road. He recalled waking up in the hills one morning and finding it surreal. He says that his song 502 Come Up refers to that year, and he links it to the change in his circumstances.

Friends played a part. Two friends, Smitty and Stephon, gave him 600 dollars for studio equipment, and he used it to make the song Don't. They drove from Lexington, and he bought a desk at Target and put it together himself. He insisted on paying them back.

The article attributes the change to his career. Tiller said that he used to record after school just for fun and now gets paid to do it. Three of his songs reached number one on Billboard's Emerging Artists chart, and his debut album, Trapsoul, reached number two on the R&B albums chart and number eleven on the Billboard 200. He now tours, and says he has a little spot in Miami, though he is also just living out of a suitcase. He is the father of a one-year-old daughter, Harley.