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Ty Dolla Sign [1985-0] American
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Musician, Singer


Tyrone William Griffin Jr., known professionally as Ty Dolla Sign, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. 

Thankful, Teen



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As a kid, my pops did music, too. He was in a group called Lakeside back in the day.
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I'm from L.A. South Central area.
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I've been everywhere man. I'm from L.A., though.
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One of my uncles played in The Isleys. I went to all their shows.
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I feel like on 'Free TC,' you know, I feel like I went hard, and not enough people recognized.
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Even though the Clintons started mass incarceration, which my brother is a victim of, things are going to change, though. Somebody made them do that.
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I care about people, and I've learned in life that the only thing we are here for is to learn and teach.
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Everybody just wants to steal each other's energy.
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Working with Babyface was legendary.
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J Dilla is the top producer of all time, in my book, alongside Timbaland and Pharrell. Then DJ Mustard.
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I want to buy up a gang of properties in my neighborhood and give people the chance to live in new buildings. We should make our areas nice.
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I never gave up, but a lot of the homies did, and I don't feel sorry for them.
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I make bangers all the time, and I knew it was going to come. My mom probably used to think it wasn't going to happen. My daughter's mom thought it wasn't going to happen, and a couple of girlfriends. You just gotta keep on doing it. I'm living proof.
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Yeah, it's Pushaz Ink for life. Me, YG, and Mustard started a movement, and we brought back the West.
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Everything happens at the perfect time, man. You may not realize it. But now I do.
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I am Mr. 'Toot it and Boot It.'
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Rioting definitely brings attention to the situation at hand.
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Why do we have to have another riot?
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God is good.
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I did a song with Rihanna recently, and I was like, 'How did you find out about me or whatever?' And she said, 'Drake.'
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I used to always want a boy, and when I had a girl, I thought I wasn't going to like it, but I love having a girl.
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I'm using my platform to help out a little bit, you know. It's only right.
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To me, it's 2016 about to be 2017. I can't believe there's still a racism factor.
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My brother is really talented.
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I'm definitely the super-cool dad.
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The only thing I could be better at is to be around more. Other than that, I'm a great dad. I come to the soccer games and teach her stuff, go over her homework with her every night; we stay on the phone. I try to be as good as a dad as I can be.
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My dad put me with all the greatest people. It definitely helped me now, because I know so much more about music and composition. It's cool. I love Pops. I'm super thankful for everything he's done to help my career. Thankful
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I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music in the '40s, '50s, '60s. Then I've got all the '80s stuff underground, hip-hop when hip-hop really first started. The '90s stuff. All of the good stuff, because I'm really into music, and it helps me create new songs now.
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When 'Paranoid' came out, how many other 'Paranoids' came out? No shots, just real.
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How many fake Drakes are there? How many fake Migos are there?
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I want to be one of those ones: a legend.
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Tell all the ladies to follow me on Snapchat. I don't want to see no guys snapping me.
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I write other people songs. Recirculate it. It's the music business.
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If something's dope, you got to go with it.
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It's certain rappers that can really rap, that really spit all bars, so I understand why someone would say, 'You not a real rapper.' But the main thing is, if you can make good songs, who cares? So I don't know why guys be tripping on Drake. He makes great music. He's dope.
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God blessed us with all this money, so why not take the money and put it into my brother's case? Talk about social and racial injustice in our country, and mass incarceration in our country?
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I had a kid, so I had to step it up and get that cake.
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Every person needs to go home and have that person to wake up to - eventually, when the party's over.
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The mass incarceration going on in this country and with my people is crazy.
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I got all the women and everything I want, but my brother is locked up. I can't leave him behind.
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J Cole went platinum with no features, and I wanna go platinum!
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I think I'm gonna do more songs on my own.
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Ever since Apple Music, Spotify, and all of those things came around, we can choose whatever we want to listen to. Before then, it was all controlled, but now, everybody listens to everything.
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I'm gonna bring Bad Brains vibes 'cos that's what I do.
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At first, I ain't gon' lie, I used to be a little nervous about what people were gon' think about my music, but once I let that go, then everything started happening.
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It's simple: put the money into schools and not prisons.
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We'll get way further if we educate people and not lock them up.
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I've been building slow, step by step.
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I'm never satisfied. I want to get to the next level.
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I grew up around a lot of church musicians.
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Every time I hear 'Miracle,' I feel a certain type of way.
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When we dropped 'Toot It And Boot It,' Mustard didn't even do beats, and now he's killin' it. So it's just cool to see all of my bros taking over.
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I'm tryna figure out when I'm gonna do my version of the Moonwalk... It's coming, you know? That Dolla $ign moonwalk is comin'.
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That's where I got lucky; nobody else is doing what I do or really can do what I do.
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I'm just thankful to be blessed with my talent. Thankful
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I love Jailynn so much. She's the best daughter. I bet every dad says that.
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I'm promoting partying and having fun and being that type of American. I don't wanna hurt nobody's feelings.
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I'm not gonna front and act like your boyfriend. I'm out here, you know what I'm saying?
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I love seeing love. I had this one girl that I was really tryna go hard with, but it wasn't it.
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My production got better, songs, lyrics, everything; the sound, the quality, everything.
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One day, I'm gonna make a song with John Mayer.
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One day, I'm gonna make a song with Kaskade.
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I feel like everybody's inspired off of everybody.
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The Internet is the vehicle we're driving to share our visuals, outrage, and ideas around the world.
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For those of you that don't know, the reason I named my album 'Free TC' is because my lil' brother is named TC. He's locked up for something that he didn't do, and what I'm trying to do is just raise awareness around the whole mass incarceration thing going on in our country, especially with our people.
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I remember watching the first Million Man March as a kid, and I always knew that if I got a chance to go to one, I would go.
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Now I know we have the power to incite change through the Internet - keep sharing our stories, our dreams, and our struggles.
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Fifth grade was when I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit;' it was the energy, and his voice. I liked 311 and Sublime, too, though that might have been a little after that. Teen
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Fifteen is around the time when my parents broke up, and all I was listening to was 2Pac.
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There was a lot of Pac haters, but I definitely love Pac. I wish I got to do a song with him.
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I like Future, Young Thug, Mike WiLL, DJ Spinz, Metro Boomin, Drake, Kendrick.
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Quavo's energy in the studio in unreal.
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OT Genasis is my L.A. homie; I've seen him grind, and he is still making hits.
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Bad Brains is one of my all-time favorite punk bands.
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YG and I started a long time ago back in '08, and I am proud of where we are now.
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Jagged Edge is one of my favorite R&B groups.
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When I put out 'Toot It and Boot It,' did anything sound like that?
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Everything has a cycle and a season.
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The whole reason behind my album 'Free TC' is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration.
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I don't despise anyone. It's definitely all about the love.
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I kick it with a whole bunch of people, whereas some people only want you to kick it with one race, you know.
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I mess with white girls, Asian girls, Spanish girls, black girls, everything.
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I like Jaco Pastorius' 'Portrait of Tracy.' He was this bass player who played jazz fusion. He was the dopest bass player who ever lived.
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When it comes to making a song, whatever the beat tells me to do, I do.
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Really, I've been working forever, just doing music, and then all of a sudden, out of the blue, everybody is just on it.
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I'm happy and thankful that people are messing with the Dolla $ign. Thankful
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I'm a big fan of Fetty Wap.
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'Shell Shocked' is so different from what people are used to hearing from Ty Dolla Sign.
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It's hella crazy being included in the music for the 'Ninja Turtles' movie.
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The softest thing I've ever heard are the wind chimes in my backyard. They are soft and cool and mellow.
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As a producer, when I'm trying to make something soft, I start with a slow tempo. Then after that, it would be straight to acoustic guitar and vocals, or I'm going to go strings and just piano.
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Piano feels soft. Violins and all different string instruments feel soft. Guitar, even electric guitar before you start adding distortion, that you can play soft.
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I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.
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Out of every other rap guy, Wiz is the most humble, down-to-earth guy, like me.
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I do a little bit of everything.
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With L.A. it's like, yeah, there's Death Row and whatever. But I always wanted to know what those artists were sampling. It's how I fell in love with music.
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My song 'Saved:' that's EDM-vibes with some L.A. vibes.
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People have died in jail that have been innocent.
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I used Atlantic like I was supposed to.
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