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Ty Dolla Sign exemplifies the blurry expansion of modern hip-hop into the dystopian and drugged out, as the dreadlocked singer, rapper and producer refuses pigeonholing. He splices hot bars with melty auto-tune harmonies over trappy, heavy-stepping beats. A talented musician, his skill on the bass guitar, keyboard and drum machine inform his hedonistic anthems about getting cross-faded and jacking your girlfriend. He came to fame by producing and writing YG's crackly and infectious banger, "Toot It and Boot It." Since then, he's collaborated with Future and Rae Sremmurd on the zig-zagging club hit "Blase" and with DJ Mustard and Wiz Khalifa on the bedspring-sampling ode to pushing the limits of freakiness, "Or Nah." (JF)
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