Ty Dolla $ign & Mustard – My Friends (feat. Lil Durk) [Single]

Ty Dolla $ign started racking up hits at the dawn of the 2010s, first with one of his many featured appearances and then with headlining singles on which his sly, explicitly hedonistic style of contemporary R&B was put on full display. After assisting the “worldwide underground” likes of Sa-Ra and , Ty reached the mainstream through ‘s “Toot It and Boot It” (2010), continued to gain hits as a collaborator, and as a solo artist narrowly missed the Top Ten with full-length projects such as Free TC (2015) and Beach House III (2017). Since then, he has topped the Hot 100 with ‘s “Psycho” and teamed up with for MihTy (both 2018), and issued his third LP, the Top Ten Billboard 200-charting Featuring Ty Dolla $ign (2020). In 2021, he collaborated with for Cheers to the Best Memories.

The singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, born Tyrone Griffin, Jr. — the son of Tyrone Griffin, a musician who played with and — started making moves during the 2000s in his native Los Angeles. As one-half of Ty & Kory, the younger Griffin appeared on Sa-Ra’s The Hollywood Recordings, ‘s New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War, and ‘s Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka, as well as ‘s Popular Demand. He reached the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in 2010 with ‘s “Toot It and Boot It,” for which he provided the hook. A pivotal moment, it preceded constant studio activity that resulted in solo and collaborative output issued throughout the decade.

Ty Dolla $ign made his major-label debut on in 2013 with “Paranoid,” which eventually went multi-platinum. “Or Nah,” the follow-up, became his second single to hit the Top Ten of Billboard’s Hot R&B Songs chart, and quickly went multi-platinum. Additional singles and appearances on commercial and underground releases alike led to the November 2015 release of Free TC, his debut album. Dedicated to his incarcerated brother, the guest-loaded set debuted at number 14 on the Billboard 200, boosted by “Blasé,” “Saved,” and “Wavy,” all certified gold or platinum tracks.

During the next two years, Ty branched out stylistically as an accessory to pop hits such as ‘s “Work from Home,” the Suicide Squad: The Album smash “Sucker for Pain,” and ‘s “Swalla.” and were also among the artists who enlisted his services, though these pop and club efforts were balanced out with assists for the likes of , , and . As lead artist, the commercial mixtape Campaign arrived just ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and became a Top 30 hit, highlighted by “No Justice,” a sober protest song recorded with his still-jailed brother. Beach House III, Griffin’s second proper album, was teased with genre-hopping singles involving and (“Love U Better”), and and (“So Am I”). It hit number 11 upon its October 2017 release.

Griffin continued to excel primarily as a supporting artist for the next few years. Following a slew of collaborative one-offs highlighted by ‘s Hot 100-topping “Psycho” and ‘s likewise multi-platinum “OTW,” he and partnered to jointly release the album MihTy. Ty co-starred on well over a dozen tracks in 2019, such as ‘s “Nights Like This,” ‘s number 11 hit “Hot Girl Summer,” and ‘s “Midnight Hour,” the last of which was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Dance Recording. In 2020, he headlined a clutch of singles, including July’s “Ego Death,” featuring , , and , and in August’s charting “Expensive,” on which he was joined by . Both tracks paved the way for his third full-length, Featuring Ty Dolla $ign, which arrived that October and landed at number four on the Billboard 200. His first U.S. Top Ten debut, the album featured several more guest-featuring singles, including “Spicy” with and “By Yourself” with and .

The following year, after appearing on their 2020 album A Muse in Her Feelings, Ty recorded a full-length collaboration with Canadian R&B duo titled Cheers to the Best Memories.