"Getting Late" is the debut single by South African singer Tyla featuring producer Kooldrink.

Filmed during the pandemic lockdowns, the music video released in January 2021 racked up over 2 million views by May 2021 after its dance challenge received attention and secured Tyla a deal with Epic Records.

[3] Tyla stated she wanted to incorporate pop music into Amapiano to make it suit her more as she felt the genre had been "male dominated".

[5][6] The song has elements of jazz and house music[7] with a mixture of pop and amapiano, which would later become Tyla's signature sound that she would dub herself as "pop-iano".

[5][12] "Getting Late" emerged as a success after a dance challenge on TikTok, started by Tyla in 2021 received heavy attention with videos racking up over 10.8 million likes on the platform by May 2021.