{"id":232181,"date":"2025-10-17T19:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232181\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:27:07","slug":"ty-dolla-ign-embraces-tycoon-season-with-new-studio-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232181\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Dolla $ign embraces ‘Tycoon season’ with new studio album"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s \u2018Tycoon\u2019 season,\u2019\u201d a beaming Ty Dolla $ign,<\/a> declares.<\/p>\n

It is indeed. The inventive R&B singer has just released his fifth studio album, his first full-length solo release in five years. He chose \u201cTycoon\u201d for its title because the word encompasses his current state of mind. \u201cIt\u2019s like (being at) the top of your game,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s like, not only have I done all the stuff you could do in artistry, (but) there\u2019s still more to do.\u201d <\/p>\n

Call it confidence or swagger or showboating: The Grammy-nominated artist<\/a> has a trove of multiplatinum records to his name from 2018 to the present, and recently, his controversial project with Kanye West, $,<\/a> released two albums, \u201cVultures 1\u201d and \u201cVultures 2\u201d in 2024. They debuted at No. 1 and 2 on the Billboard 200, respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cTycoon\u201d Time<\/p>\n

\u201cTycoon\u201d is classic Ty Dolla $ign. The album is what he\u2019s made a name for himself doing: a collection of ceaselessly catchy, NSFW R&B anthems about lust and love (both mostly lechery), stacked with A-list collaborations: Quavo,<\/a>Juicy J,<\/a> 2 Chainz, Tyga, Travis Scott, Chlo\u00eb \u2014 the list goes on.<\/p>\n

Also among them: Rappers Kodak Black<\/a> and Ty Dolla $ign\u2019s longtime kindred spirit YG. (Ty Dolla $ign and YG have worked together for a number of years, certainly going back to 2010\u2019s \u201cToot It & Boot It.\u201d) For his latest album, the trio teamed up for \u201cSMILE BODY PRETTY FACE.\u201d It was one of the last songs to make \u201cTycoon,\u201d says Ty Dolla $ign, \u201cBut when we started messing with the beat. I was like, \u2018This has got to be YG.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a romantic element to the song \u2014 with some of his explicitly sexual posturing. The same can be said about the lead single to \u201cTycoon,\u201d \u201cAll In,\u201d where Ty Dolla $ign\u2019s rich baritone considers devotion to a partner. \u201cThey say love don\u2019t cost a thing,\u201d he swoons on the chorus. \u201cAnd if it did, I\u2019d go all in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always loving something,\u201d he says. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t all the way worked out for me yet.\u201d Love, then, is still a constant source of inspiration \u2014 enriched by the song\u2019s sample of Wayne Wonders\u2019 2002 reggae fusion track \u201cNo Letting Go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Big business and an R&B comeback<\/p>\n

For Ty Dolla $ign, this new era means being a business \u201cTycoon\u201d as well. He\u2019s taken on his fair share of industry endeavors \u2014 like launching a label, EZMNY, with then-Motown Records executive Shawn Barron \u2014 and experiencing immediate success with its first signing, the R&B upstart Leon Thomas.<\/a> His single, \u201cMutt,\u201d<\/a> hit No. 11 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on its Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs chart.<\/p>\n

Thomas told AP earlier this year<\/a> about working with Ty Dolla $ign: \u201cI was around some epic legends in the field, and I feel like the best teacher is experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal there, with EZMNY, is to give the real artists a chance. Myself, I didn\u2019t make it until I was 27 and I was always good. I was always making music,\u201d Ty Dolla $ign says. \u201cAnd I just wanted to reach back to people that are actually great.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s definitely going to be a comeback in R&B<\/a> very soon,\u201d he adds. \u201cWe\u2019re talking Leon specifically.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for what else the future holds, it still remains to be seen if the oft-rumored \u201cVultures 3\u201d will be released. \u201cThere was a lot of music that was done. It could have been out at the time,\u201d Ty Dolla $ign deflects. \u201cI feel like we made the best music that was out at the time. I feel like we went No. 1, and it was a successful project, and it was fun … That was like a cool experience, to see that you could just do everything on your own time.\u201d <\/p>\n

Could the duo reunite? \u201cWho knows what may happen in the future?\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m open to whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, \u201cIt\u2019s \u2018Tycoon\u2019 time,\u201d he says. Soon, Ty Dolla $ign will tour the album. Later down the line, his new documentary \u2014 titled \u201cStill Free TC,\u201d 10 years after his debut album \u201cFree TC\u201d \u2014 will hopefully get a wider release. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cStill Free TC\u201d is about his brother, Big TC, who is currently incarcerated on a life sentence for murder \u2014 wrongfully so, according to the singer. But it also tells Ty Dolla $ign\u2019s story in intimate detail. It\u2019s about his journey to the top and the mass incarceration system that still affects his family. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of friends and fans tell me that, like, \u2018Yeah, you never show anybody for real. You never let anybody in.\u2019 So, this is the time where I let everybody in,\u201d he says of the film. \u201cI just feel like the people need to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

And in the meantime, they\u2019ll have \u201cTycoon\u201d to dive into.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want people to feel inspired after they hear it. I want them to believe in themselves after they hear it,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd believe in me. I\u2019m always going to give you the best of the best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s \u2018Tycoon\u2019 season,\u2019\u201d a beaming Ty Dolla $ign, declares. It is indeed. The inventive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[67165,3172,88,793,129285,4860,8518,129279,71547,216,48696,129283,706,129281,129280,129284,795,129282],"class_list":["post-232181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-2-chainz","tag-celebrity-interviews","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-juicy-j","tag-kanye-west","tag-kodak-black","tag-leon-thomas","tag-movie-premieres","tag-music","tag-quavo","tag-robert-john-lange","tag-travis-scott","tag-tribeca-film-festival","tag-ty-dolla-ign","tag-tyga","tag-u-s-news","tag-wayne-wonders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}