Ty Dolla $ign dropped his fourth studio album Tycoon on Friday (Oct. 17) via Atlantic Records.
“A tycoon is a boss. It came from a Japanese word ‘tycoon,’ which means ‘great lord.’ It’s the same thing — great boss, the best at your craft. The top of your game, right?” he told Billboard in a new interview. “That’s what I feel like I’ve reached. There’s still heights I wanna reach, there’s still places I wanna go, there’s still more goals I have, but I’m there. I’m one of the biggest artists in the game.”
He released three singles prior to the project: the Wayne Wonder-sampling “All In,” “Smile Body Pretty Face,” featuring Kodak Black and YG, and “Show Me Love,” featuring Tory Lanez.
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Tycoon comes five years after Ty’s last solo studio album Featuring Ty Dolla $ign. While nodding to his consistency as a collaborator, the 25-track project included multiple collabs with Ye, Mustard, Quavo, Nicki Minaj, Jhené Aiko, FKA twigs and more. Featuring Ty Dolla $ign peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. In September, Billboard honored Ty with the Collab Impact Award at The Future of Music & Money event, in partnership with UBS and powered by Feeture.
He and Ye dropped their ¥$ collab albums Vultures 1 and Vultures 2, the former of which topped the Billboard 200 for two weeks. Vulture 1‘s hit single “Carnival,” featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking Ty’s second Hot 100 No. 1 after 2018’s “Psycho” with Post Malone.
Listen to Tycoon below.