TC (born Gabriel Griffin) is Ty’s younger brother who is currently serving 67 years to life in prison for a 2004 murder that Ty swears he did not commit.
The real reason I’m begging you all to buy this album is because of its namesake. He seems just as comfortable there as he does on songs with the homies YG, Joe Moses, & Teecee4800 on “Only Right” and “Straight Up” featuring Jagged Edge, which are his bread & butter. Judging from all the tweets I’ve seen about the album, there are no complaints about Ty$’s EDM audition “Bring It Out Of Me” or Prince impression “Whenever”.
So often do we see artists step out of their comfort zone only to have us begging them to step back in.
What’s amazing about it is Ty$ never seems out of pocket walking the tightrope of staying true to the sound his fans expect and shameless pandering perfectly. If I’m wrong, a thousand apologies to Craig Kallman & co.įree TC clocks in at about an hour and 12 minutes with 16 songs ranging from obvious pop chart grabs, acoustic jams, blood bangers, & more. Now this might all actually be Ty$’s fault but he doesn’t strike me as the type to put this much into the music only to botch the release but who knows. When all was said and done, the album peaked at number 14 on the Billboard 200 charts, selling approximately 20k copies. Atlantic took what felt like forever to release the album and still managed to drop it on the 2nd worst day of the year to release music (1st would be to drop same day as Adele of course). The same day Justin Bieber aka Da Biebz aka Bieberveli made his triumphant return. As if that wasn’t enough, the album comes out after half of it is released as singles in an awful attempt to get the ball rolling, on November 13th. THE ALBUM DIDN’T DROP TIL FUCKING NOVEMBER. Most Dolla $ign fans weren’t crazy about the song but hey, whatever speeds up this album release, we’ll accept. “Kitty” is obvious radio bait, featuring Tinashe & Charlie XCX (which helped the song draw many comparisons to “Fancy”, for better or worse). Then comes “Stand For” in November of 2014, followed by “Drop That Kitty” this past February. The album didn’t come immediately after these singles so we, the congregation of the church of latter day $igns, waited patiently. “Paranoid” was released in September 2013 and “Or Nah” in January 2014. Those of you who have only heard of Ty$ or are casual fans probably know him from hits like “Paranoid” or “Or Nah”. If you are someone who enjoyed these 5 projects as much as I do, I’d say we each owe Ty$ about $37.964838293 dollars, but I’m sure he’d be happy if we just bought Free TC.
Ty$ was aware of his fans clamoring for more and gave us Airplane Mode, a collection of songs and snippets released a month before the album just to hold us over and to no surprise, EVEN THE SNIPPETS WERE FIRE. All of the above feature songs so great that I and several other fans were tweeting every day about how we wanted more and how the album couldn’t arrive soon enough. As with about 99% of rappers, Ty made his name off of several free mixtapes dating back as far as 2011, including the fan favorites Beach House 1 & 2, the Wiz Khalifa-collab EP Talk About It In The Morning, and my personal favorite $ign Language. is his debut album, it’s definitely not Ty$’s first time releasing a body of work. He’s given us so much great material for freeĮven though Free T.C. Salute to the man who wrote the savage anthem of 2014.Ĥ. Ty knows his role and plays it well and that is definitely respected in the grand scheme. That type of unselfish pass is exactly why the Golden State Warriors are 22–0 as I write this. In an interview with Hot 97, he humbly acknowledged that it would be bigger if Chris recorded it and did what was best for the song. You’ve all heard this song a mil lion times and most of you have heard a million versions of it (remixes, covers, and this awesome vine included).