When on the heavily Future and Rae Sremmurd assisted track “Blasé” Ty gratingly proclaims “…I think I’m Nate Dogg…” he is absolutely correct. And with this sort of g-funk, it by no means is based in bringing back playful wailing synths or returning to the mothership, but instead with rampant misogyny. The first real big problem is that as an artist, Ty Dolla $ign really fancies himself as some messianic figure of g-funk. No longer a slick compact collection of hook heavy jams, Free TC is a scattered mess with an even more scattered mindset. Now, Free TC is a real album that exists in real life, but it is not the record that had been promised. But despite these favorable circumstances, no such project ever materialized.
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Despite peaking on a wave of “Paranoid” and penning Chris Brown’s first real crossover smash post-Rihanna in “Loyal,” a full length LP seemed on the horizon. He might have taught DJ Mustard his way around an MPC, but “Rack City” crossed over into the charts instead of “Toot It and Boot It.” Now after a breakthrough via the Beach House series of mixtapes (and subsequent EP of the same name) and the sleazy reverb drenched house music of “My Cabana,” Ty seemed as though he was ready to collect after paying dues for so long.
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For years, it seemed as though Ty was about a half step away from the limelight. For someone so recently introduced to the public eye, Ty Dolla $ign is teetering dangerously close to irrelevant.