Indeed, Scorpion is hardly the first record of 2018 to be dusted with Ty’s indelible influence. “Then started complaining and other people at Atlantic like, ‘Yo, we need to save some of this shit for your shit.’” “At first I was just being the homie and every time somebody would ask me, I was like, ‘Yeah,’” Dolla told The FADER of his long resume of collaboration. Dolla has the sauce, and he knows other people-perhaps too many people-want a taste. He raps, he sings, he lets his voice dance somewhere in between. He provides both an easily mapped panache and an ineffable verve. On Scorpion, and several other recent records, Ty Dolla $ign’s voice lifts the work of his collaborators from good to great. He is studied and surgical, his vocal choices and melodic references revealing a love of music that extends far beyond the riffs of his contemporaries. Ty Dolla $ign is, after all, the consummate collaborator, a man whose voice provides a kaleidoscopic range of musical possibilities to any artist he works with. A musical chameleon, Ty Dolla $ign takes to Drake with the fluidity of water: He provides a subtle tonal contrast to the moody Scorpio, an opportunity for female listeners, for one, to feel soothed rather than stung. On “After Dark,” Dolla channels The-Dream in both tune and amorous approach. Ty builds on Drake’s admonitions-that the woman in question has abandoned him, that she wasted his time-with harmonies that soften the blow of the track’s angst. Dolla’s background vocals add dimension to “Jaded,” a solipsistic saga reminiscent of “Marvin’s Room,” the drunken temper tantrum/lullaby from Drake’s 2011 Take Care. On Scorpion, which takes its name from the astrological sign under which Drake was born (coincidentally the same season Ty’s Beach House 3 was released), Ty’s crooning both enhances and provides a welcome distraction to Drake’s sometimes haphazard whining. Cole’s star-making “Dollar & A Dream” series.) The effort is balanced, symbiotic. Dolla’s criminally underrated 2017 album, Beach House 3, leads with the Dream-assisted “Love U Better.” The duo plays off one another throughout the track, with Ty even noting that the woman they’re singing to “ain’t know if it’s a Dolla or a Dream song.” (The “Dolla” and “Dream” pairing also recalls the title of rapper J. The-Dream, née Terius Youngdell Nash, is a frequent Dolla collaborator. Ty stretches out “Fuck these niggas,” pushing his voice into an atypically high register with a distinct melody.įor longtime R&B fans, the allusion is familiar: Ty’s interpolation of the line mirrors the repetitive “Fuck that nigga” that drives The-Dream’s “I Luv Your Girl,” the third single from the singer’s 2007 debut album Love Hate. As Ty, born Tyrone William Griffin Jr., recounts the story of his dalliance with a woman, he addresses her directly: “You broke up with your man and ain't been with nobody else / You like, ‘Fuck these niggas,’ rather keep it to yourself.” The lyrics themselves aren’t particularly notable, but Ty’s vocal tics reveal a penchant for studious melodrama. But it’s his verse that shows off Ty’s knack for musical citation. On “After Dark,” the slinky Static Major–produced song from the second half of Drake’s bloated new album Scorpion, Ty peppers the chorus with his trademark ad libs.
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