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<\/a>Since the dawn of the 2010s, Ty Dolla $ign has been steadily racking up hits, first with one of his many featured appearances and then with headlining singles on which his sly, explicitly hedonistic style of contemporary R&B was put on full display. After assisting the “worldwide underground” likes of Sa-Ra<\/a> and Erykah Badu<\/a>, Ty reached the mainstream through YG<\/a>‘s “Toot It and Boot It” (2010), continued to gain hits as a collaborator, and as a solo artist narrowly missed the Top Ten with full-length projects such as Free TC<\/a> (2015) and Beach House III<\/a> (2017). Since then, he issued his third LP, the Top Ten Billboard 200-charting Featuring Ty Dolla $ign<\/a> (2020). In 2021, he collaborated with dvsn<\/a> for Cheers to the Best Memories<\/a> and in 2023 joined forces with Kanye West<\/a> to form a new project, \u00a5$<\/a>, who released a pair of 2024 albums, Vultures 1<\/a> and Vultures 2<\/a>. The sultry “All In” heralded 2025’s Tycoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTy Dolla $ign made his major-label debut on Atlantic in 2013 with “Paranoid,” which eventually went multi-platinum. “Or Nah,” the follow-up, became his second single to hit the Top Ten of Billboard’s Hot R&B Songs chart, and quickly went multi-platinum. Additional singles and appearances on commercial and underground releases alike led to the November 2015 release of Free TC<\/a>, his debut album. Dedicated to his incarcerated brother, the guest-loaded set debuted at number 14 on the Billboard 200, boosted by “Blas\u00e9,” “Saved,” and “Wavy,” all certified gold or platinum tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2023, Ty joined forces with Kanye West<\/a> to form a new project, \u00a5$<\/a>. The duo released their debut single “Vultures” in November of that year. They slowly leaked out information about the project in the lead-up to an oft-delayed debut full length Vultures 1<\/a> before finally releasing it in February of 2024. The album that included guest appearances from a number of famous artists including Lil Durk<\/a>, Freddie Gibbs<\/a>, James Blake<\/a> and many others, and debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 chart. It spawned the chart-topping hit “Carnival,” featuring Rich the Kid<\/a> and Playboi Carti<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Though \u00a5$<\/a> initially claimed they would release subsequent chapters Vultures 2<\/a> and Vultures 3 as a trilogy at the rate of one album per month, it would be August of 2024 when Vultures 2<\/a> finally materialized. The album again included a host of guest appearances, this time making space for collaborations from Lil Wayne<\/a>, Young Thug<\/a>, Desiigner<\/a>, and Kodak Black<\/a>, and many more. The sultry, romantic dance single “All In,” arrived in June 2025 as the first song off the singer’s fourth studio long player, Tycoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ty Dolla $ign Biography Since the dawn of the 2010s, Ty Dolla $ign has been steadily racking up hits, first with one of his many featured appearances and then with headlining singles on which his sly, explicitly hedonistic style of contemporary R&B was put on full display. After assisting the “worldwide underground” likes of Sa-Ra and Erykah Badu, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":117,"template":"","class_list":["post-116","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/fastly-s3.allmusic.com\/release\/mr0000569358\/front\/220\/GNQP0m6iQlJGIskYtVMxJQSijaXJlYnq0St31qpAJWo=.jpg\")
<\/a>The singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, born Tyrone Griffin, Jr.<\/a> — the son of Tyrone Griffin<\/a>, a musician who played with Lakeside<\/a> and Teena Marie<\/a> — started making moves during the 2000s in his native Los Angeles. As one-half of Ty & Kory<\/a>, the younger Griffin<\/a> appeared on Sa-Ra<\/a>‘s The Hollywood Recordings<\/a>, Erykah Badu<\/a>‘s New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War<\/a>, and Shafiq Husayn<\/a>‘s Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka<\/a>, as well as Black Milk<\/a>‘s Popular Demand<\/a>. He reached the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in 2010 with YG<\/a>‘s “Toot It and Boot It,” for which he provided the hook. A pivotal moment, it preceded constant studio activity that resulted in solo and collaborative output issued throughout the decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Suicide](\"https:\/\/fastly-s3.allmusic.com\/release\/mr0004579227\/front\/220\/65ccnqzIREeH_azO-VHOpoAf7E_1E-2MlBBPmPAXRBU=.jpg\")
<\/a>During the next two years, Ty branched out stylistically as an accessory to pop hits such as Fifth Harmony<\/a>‘s “Work from Home,” the Suicide Squad: The Album<\/a> smash “Sucker for Pain,” and Jason Derulo<\/a>‘s “Swalla.” Major Lazer<\/a> and Nick Jonas<\/a> were also among the artists who enlisted his services, though these pop and club efforts were balanced out with assists for the likes of Fat Joe<\/a>, 2 Chainz<\/a>, and Meek Mill<\/a>. As lead artist, the commercial mixtape Campaign<\/a> arrived just ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and became a Top 30 hit, highlighted by “No Justice,” a sober protest song recorded with his still-jailed brother. Beach House III<\/a>, Griffin<\/a>‘s second proper album, was teased with genre-hopping singles involving Lil Wayne<\/a> and the-Dream<\/a> (“Love U Better”), and Damian Marley<\/a> and Skrillex<\/a> (“So Am I”). It hit number 11 upon its October 2017 release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"MIH-TY\"](\"https:\/\/fastly-s3.allmusic.com\/release\/mr0004966341\/front\/220\/vba8Dm9_LRg5ddfE9i8Hh9_M69_UI9rrJSVvWL2-yAg=.jpg\")
<\/a>Griffin<\/a> continued to excel primarily as a supporting artist for the next few years. Following a slew of collaborative one-offs highlighted by Post Malone<\/a>‘s Hot 100-topping “Psycho” and Khalid<\/a>‘s likewise multi-platinum “OTW,” he and Jeremih<\/a> partnered to jointly release the album MihTy<\/a>. Ty co-starred on well over a dozen tracks in 2019, such as Kehlani<\/a>‘s “Nights Like This,” Megan Thee Stallion<\/a>‘s number 11 hit “Hot Girl Summer,” and Skrillex<\/a>‘s “Midnight Hour,” the last of which was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Dance Recording. In 2020, he headlined a clutch of singles, including July’s “Ego Death,” featuring Kanye West<\/a>, FKA Twigs<\/a>, and Skrillex<\/a>, and in August’s charting “Expensive,” on which he was joined by Nicki Minaj<\/a>. Both tracks paved the way for his third full-length, Featuring Ty Dolla $ign<\/a>, which arrived that October and landed at number four on the Billboard 200. His first U.S. Top Ten debut, the album featured several more guest-featuring singles, including “Spicy” with Post Malone<\/a> and “By Yourself” with Jhen\u00e9 Aiko<\/a> and Mustard<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/fastly-s3.allmusic.com\/release\/mr0005205992\/front\/220\/7j6gZSqd6CAuxgv4cbLVFx_TZlp6n_cq-Emr2zx15tU=.jpg\")
<\/a>The following year, after appearing on their 2020 album A Muse in Her Feelings<\/a>, Ty recorded a full-length collaboration with Canadian R&B duo dvsn<\/a> titled Cheers to the Best Memories<\/a>. He also guested on David Guetta<\/a>‘s “Family,” released in several different versions, with the one featuring Bebe Rexha<\/a> racking up the most streams. In 2022, Ty released the Wiz Khalifa<\/a> collaboration “Champions” and the Mustard<\/a>-produced “My Friends” (featuring Lil Durk<\/a>). He began the following year with a single titled “2022,” then collaborated with Alesso<\/a> on the song “Caught a Body” and issued the solo track “Motion.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n