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Tyrone Griffin, with whom Ty shares more than a name. When Ty performs an abbreviated set at SOB's in New York City to celebrate the release of his Beach House EP, he's accompanied on stage by his father, clad in matching black shades and acting as trumpet player and hype man. Despite all those connections, though, it's been as much of a slow grind as it might be for an artist on the outside. But Ty's roots on the inside run deeper, pre-dating that early hit.
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Since the success of "Toot It and Boot It," he's been working as a songwriter and producer behind the scenes to considerable success. It's not the only thing he's learned during his time in the industry. Ty was responsible, though, for the melody.) Many of the songs on Ty's records that he didn't directly produce, he had a hand in anyway. (The lyrics to the hook from his first hit-YG's 2009 smash "Toot It and Boot It"-were coined by his friend, Nano.
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Still, his is a collaborative art, with ideas and lyrics thrown out by homies in the studio, beats from his "D.R.U.G.S." ("Dirty Rotten Underground Sound") production crew emailed from across the country, instrumentalists' work chopped and recombined. Ty is very much the maestro of his own sound, and is heavily involved in the production of his own records. (he has a writing credit on "HeadBand") and Alley Boy ( "R.N.G.M.") His label, Atlantic, seems to treat him as a go-to songwriter, unloading a bevy of its catalog artists onto Beach House 2 (Kid Ink, B.o.B.) and giving Ty work on songs by B.o.B. Beach House 2 was written up in the New York Times, and Ty is collaborating with a growing cadre of stars he wrote Chris Brown's "Loyal," and recently contributed background vocals for the Jennifer Lopez's DJ Mustard-produced "Girls." A multi-instrumentalist triple-threat who can write hooks, sing, and produce beats, Ty has his fingerprints on numerous tracks by both friends and associates. His DJ Mustard-produced single "Paranoid" is still ringing in clubs his latest, the Wiz Khalifa-assisted "Or Nah," seems set to follow suit. He's still not a household name, but he seems closer to the verge than ever before. And right at that moment, you also realize you're feeling all of this over a question that might not be very deep: A heartfelt cry from the depths of your soul. And then suddenly, at the song's chorus, the numbness falls away, and you feel something, deep inside of you.
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My Spanish bitch wanna pop a molly." And later: "I hate bitches wearing fake nails/Dumb bitches think I can't tell." It couldn't be more misogynistic, absurdist, packed with cartoonish stereotypes. In the video, Ty appears drugged, hazy, half-lidded, and wavering in the bleary light, dreadlocks draped down his back, mouthing the song's blunt-force words as if by accident. "White girls love to do coke," he intones, cold and neutral. Instead, he finds the art in ignorance: tapping into the emotions that compel us to escape, to act more stupidly. It's a song of immediate gratification. But even as he plays to our our basest desires, Ty is no cynic. The song blends Zedd's remix of Skrillex and The Doors' "Breakin' A Sweat" with the horns of Mint Condition's "Breakin My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)." (Ty swears the titular similarity between the two songs is a coincidence.) At once a narcotic dose of seamy atmosphere and a tightly written singalong an embrace of druggy trends and a cheeky salute to R&B history a disrespectful male fantasy and a wail of ennui, "My Cabana" and its internal contradictions are bound together by Ty's ear for melody. Everything you need to know about Ty Dolla $ign can be found in the video for "My Cabana," off his hedonistic mixtape, Beach House.