Southern Plug Magazine: Leaders of the New School ft Remy Ma Volume 2 Issue 1 C | Page 38

Ty Dolla $ign started racking up hits at the dawn of the 2010s, 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. The singer, songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist, and producer, born Tyrone Griffin, Jr. -- the
son of Tyrone Griffin, a musician who played with Lakeside and
Teena Marie -- started making moves the previous decade in his
native Los Angeles. As one half of Ty & Kory, the younger Griffin
appeared on Sa-Ra's The Hollywood Recordings, Erykah Badu's
New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War, and Shafiq Husayn's Shafiq
En' A-Free-Ka, as well as Black Milk's Popular Demand. Griffin
reached the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in 2010, when he
provided the hook for YG's "Toot It and Boot It." A pivotal moment,
it preceded constant studio activity that resulted in solo and
collaborative output issued throughout the decade. In 2013, Griffin
made his major-label debut on Atlantic with "Paranoid," which
eventually went 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