![]() Soon after, Merritt released the single " Brothers", which became his biggest song at the time and led to him signing with Columbia Records. On March 10, 2018, Merritt competed and placed first at the NYC All Ages Edition of Coast 2 Coast LIVE, where his performance gained the attention of a record label A&R who was in attendance to judge the showcase. "Resume", one of his first songs, was released when Merritt was 16 years old, and quickly began spreading online. In 2016, Merritt began releasing music on SoundCloud. Career 2016–2019: Beginnings, record deal, and True 2 Myself Merritt pays tribute to his childhood friend in a number of his songs referencing his name, "Smelly". ![]() Merritt's childhood friend, Smelly, was fatally stabbed in August 2016. At the age of 15, Merritt was arrested for one of his robberies and was sentenced for a year to a youth detention center where he would begin to write raps they included one of his hit songs "Resume", which he released on SoundCloud. Merritt called himself the problematic child out of the three, as he would often get himself into petty robberies and school fights. He was raised by a single mother and has two younger siblings in what was described as a "roomy" apartment. Merritt was born and raised in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. His second studio album, Destined 2 Win, was released in 2021 and included the single " Calling My Phone", a collaboration with fellow recording artist 6lack, his highest-charting song yet. True 2 Myself debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200, marking the album his first charted release. The following year, he released the mixtape State of Emergency that features only drill artists from New York City. Lil Tjay’s debut studio album, True 2 Myself, was released in 2019. He rose to prominence in 2017 with his song "Resume", and then the release of his breakthrough song "Brothers" which led him to sign with Columbia Records later during that year. I don’t be as available, but they understand that ’cause now I can do more for them.Tione Jayden Merritt (born April 30, 2001), known professionally as Lil Tjay, is an American rapper and singer. With people that’s locked up, I just try to speak to my guys and make sure they time goes by fast, hope they get into a better situation soon. ![]() Life got more comfortable-my whole environment, my aura. Where I’m popping out, everybody can’t get next to me. “I don’t really be in the same places too much. So I just feel like everybody should be the same. And no matter what the situation was, I never folded. That was the goal for ‘Run It Up,’ that vibe. “I fuck with Moneybagg shit, he keeps the bitches moving. “It does! If that shit ain’t working right and it’s a lot of miscommunication and real feelings is in it, it could hurt.” I could imagine people listening to this on a yacht or a boat. I had a little liquor in the system, a couple ladies there. “Me and Tyga was in the studio that day and it was a little vibe. So that’s just how we was feeling in the studio, together.” “This was just a turnt night, it was a little bit of liquor in the system, the beat was thumping, it was aggressive. It is damn near like a Tjay classic, though, ’cause I had this song for a little while and I just never dropped it. “‘Hood Rich’ is me rapping about wanting to be bigger than what I am, or where I was. ![]() “I just always felt like I was born to be great and born to be something special, so I just felt like to start it off with that just felt right.” ![]() It’s my time to come.” Below, Lil Tjay goes into detail about what was on his mind when he was cooking up the album’s key tracks. “I just felt the energy in the air, like it was ready. “I got a lot of music, coulda been done,” he says. You can hear the progression from Tjay’s debut, 2019’s True 2 Myself, in Destined 2 Win’s content and melodies, something Tjay says likely came from waiting to release it until the time felt absolutely right. “And I feel like now that I’m settling in, I just want to show that I’m here to stay.” Destined 2 Win, which follows 2020’s drill-focused State of Emergency EP, is 21 tracks of New York City slick talk, the Bronx-born MC giving us double-bicep flexing (“Gang Gang,” “Headshot”), warm-weather macking (“Move,” “Slow Down”), and, of course, the all-too-familiar pain of losing friends to the streets (“Nuf Said,” “Losses”). “A lot of people get to their first album and a lot of the esteem be off one song, or their new artist phase,” he tells Apple Music. Lil Tjay had a mission going into the release of his second album, Destined 2 Win. ![]()
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