Ty Dolla $ign

American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born Tyrone William Griffin Jr. on April 13, 1982 and known professionally as Ty Dolla Sign (stylized as Ty Dolla $ign or Ty$). In the early 1990s, he moved from his native Los Angeles to New York City, living in Brooklyn and developed a friendship with 50 Cent. He then fell in with a manager, Venus Brown, who signed him as part of a duo dubbed Ty & Kory. Eventually he gained major recognition in 2010 for his feature on YG's "Toot It and Boot It", which he had written and produced for Def Jam Recordings.