Lil Tjay Bio/ Who is Lil Tjay?
Lil Tjay better known by his stage name Lil Tjay is an American rapper and songwriter from the Bronx, New York. He is best known
for his singles “Resume” and “Brothers”, with the latter receiving 32.7 million plays on SoundCloud, which led to his signing with Columbia Records. Lil Tjay was born Tione Merritt and raised in the South Bronx with his mother and siblings. In middle school, Lil Tjay began to get into fights and getting involved in robberies leading him to serve multiple two and three-month sentences. At the age of 15, he was sentenced to one year in a youth detention center.
This longer time period influenced Lil Tjay to begin writing lyrics. Late 2017, Lil Tjay made a promise to his family that he would no longer be involved in crime. Before recording in a studio, he made several songs on his phone and computer, using bars designed to work in hip hop style. He was inspired by Usher and Michael Jackson, which his mother would play as he was growing up.
In 2017, Lil Tjay began releasing music on SoundCloud, including the singles “Resume” and “Brothers. “Resume” was released while Tjay was still 16 years old, and was paired with a homemade video of Tjay hanging out in a small apartment, which soon began to spread online. On March 10, 2018, Tjay competed and placed first at the Coast 2 Coast NYC All Ages Edition, where his performance gained the attention of a record label A&R who was in attendance to judge the showcase.
He signed with Columbia Records after they noticed his song “Brothers”, which had amassed millions of streams on SoundCloud. On it, Tjay raps about death, dejection, and incarceration. Within the first ten months of Lil Tjay’s music career, he had released five tracks that recorded over a million plays on SoundCloud. “Resume” gained 14 million views in just over a year.
“Brothers” has accumulated 32.7 million plays on SoundCloud. Other notable singles include “Goat”, which has 15.7 million plays on SoundCloud, and “Leaked”, which has 13.6 million plays. In July 2018, Lil Tjay worked with producer Cash Money AP to release “None of Your Love”, which amassed 18.2 million plays in eight months. Cash Money AP has produced tracks for rappers such as Lil Skies, Ty Dolla Sign, and YoungBoy Never Broke Again.
In January 2019, He was featured on a single with Polo G titled “Pop Out”, which has 27 million views on YouTube. When the artist released “Leaked” in September 2018, the song gained over 600,000 plays in less than a week on SoundCloud. He released his debut EP No Comparison at the end of 2018. The EP contains one feature who is YNW Melly, the 19-year-old rapper from Gifford, Florida who began gaining buzz around the same time as Lil Tjay. Their song “Ready for War” was the most successful from the EP and has over four million plays on SoundCloud
Lil Tjay Age/ How old is Lil Tjay?
Lil TJay was born on April 30th, 2001 in the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He is 18 years old as per 2019. He stands about 5ft 10m tall and his weight is about 67 kg or 148 pounds he’s of African-American ancestry. Tjay has a rose tattoo inked on his body.
Lil Tjay Family|Personal Life
He was born on April 30, 2001, in The Bronx, New York, USA. He was raised alongside his two younger siblings not far from the birthplace of hip hop. Despite this, TJAY does not possess much knowledge about the history of his genre. He and his siblings lived along with their mother in a roomy apartment at 183rd Street in The Bronx.
During several interviews, TJAY has stated he was the problem child of the family. When he was in middle school, he started fighting with other boys in his neighborhood and school. He even committed petty thefts. According to him, his mother was shocked when she found what he had been doing when he was not home. He was apparently a very well-behaved child at home. Whenever he felt the need to curse at someone, he would first go out of the house, and then do it.
In 2016, at the age of 15, he was incarcerated for a robbery and spent a year in a youth detention center in New York. While he had gotten used to spending two or three months in prison during his middle school days, the year-long sentencing forced him to reconsider the choices he was making in his life. During his time at the center, he started writing lyrics and decided to seek a life without crime.
Sometime in 2017, he was released from the center. Immediately, his mother asked him to promise her that he would mend his ways. He did but he knew that it was not true. While he was trying to put his past activities behind him, he was still “stuck in his old habits”.
The shift ultimately came when he started visiting a recording studio. In an interview with ‘Pitchfork,’ TJAY has admitted that he has never been in a relationship. While he harbored feelings for various girls over the years, he never committed. He also admitted that he is currently interested in a non-celebrity girl from his neighborhood.
Lil Tjay Girlfriend|Dating
The uprising rapper has just finished his sweet sixteen, and there aren’t any rumors buzzing over the internet about his dating affairs. So, his current relationship status is single. He is just living his life in developing different types of music for his fans. Tjay has no girlfriend at present. He might be dating someone but has not revealed anything regarding his girlfriend and his relationship yet.
Lil Tjay Concert
His upcoming concerts are as follows;
1. Saturday 27 April 2019 Lil Tjaywith Kur. LIV Nightclub, Fontainebleau, Miami Beach, FL, US
2. Friday 24 May 2019 Lil Tjaywith Young NudyThe Observatory, Santa Ana, CA, US
3. Saturday 25 May 2019 Lil TjayComplex Oakland, Oakland, CA, US
4. Friday 31 May 2019 Lil TjayStarland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, US
5. Saturday 29 June 2019 – Sunday 30 June 2019 Lil TjaySummer Smash 2019Douglas Park Cultural & Community Center, Chicago, IL, US
Lil Tjay Songs
Teenage rapper Lil TJay has built a growing fanbase with comparisons to viral hits such as;
1. Goat
2. Long Time
3. Brother
4. Pasto
5. Leaked
6. Resume
7. Forever
8. Move Right
9. Pop-Out
10. Tear Us Apart
11. Ride for You
12. None of Your Love
Lil Tjay Songs Lyrics
Lil Tjay Brothers Lyrics
Lil Tjay Long Time Lyrics
Lil Tjay Forever Lyrics
Lil Tjay Move Right Lyrics
Lil Tjay Rising Fame
Lil Tjay sucks his teeth in dissatisfaction. Sitting on a couch at Sony’s Manhattan office, he’s either shy or aggressively uninterested in talking. When he’s asked about the rappers who shaped his style, a slight clanking of his chain is the only noise in the awkward silence that ensues.
“A lot of older influences,” he answers, finally. “Like Drake, Meek.”
Drake and Meek Mill are both in their early thirties. Drake and Meek are old?
Tjay clarifies that he’s merely talking about people outside of his generation. Given that rap generations in the streaming era cycle in and out about every 18 months, conservatively, that helps explain.
Still, the realization of how young Tjay really lingers. He shields his mouth, squirms, and answers, in short, clipped sentences, just like any teenager — albeit one in crystal-crusted Gucci sneakers.
Tione Merritt is 17, and his rise over the last year has been fueled by pure youth and unfiltered instinct. To him, Drake and Meek Mill are elder statesmen, the way those rappers looked at Jay-Z or Biggie when they were growing up. If you’re over 25, Lil Tjay probably thinks you’re old, too.
Lil tjay ayntk 10secbioThe rapper grew up in the South Bronx and describes his neighborhood as “diverse,” evidenced by his knack for dipping in and out of Spanish — a language he can’t fluently speak, but one he picked up from friends. On record, his voice is a teenaged chirp, moving in and out of half-sung verses and hooks smoothed by Auto-Tune.
Stylistically, he’s an offshoot of another Bronx native, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, who only broke into the popular consciousness in 2016 (and at 23 is barely out of his teens himself).
His success is emblematic of how fast rap moves now, with a dramatically increased rate of influence between young artists. But where A Boogie often plays the role of the scorned lover in his music, Tjay operates in a less defined emotional space.
Instead of a unifying vision, Tjay traverses a range of melodic styles. On a song like “None of Your Love,” he interpolates Justin Bieber’s 2010 hit “Baby.” Asked how this came about, he shrugs: He wanted to “transition into singing,” so he entered the studio and did just that.
“Brothers,” his most successful song, is dour pop. Through a joyous Auto-Tuned gargle, Tjay raps about death, dejection, and incarceration. The juxtaposition of the ebullient delivery with the song’s grave subject matter is striking.
“I feel like a lot of times when stuff is on my mind, I really don’t show it,” he says. “I know how to hide my emotions. I can say what’s going on and not make you want to feel down. A lot of time I like to sing music that people can relate to, but not necessarily put them in a depressed mood. In ‘Brothers’ I’m saying, ‘Bodies drop all the time, I don’t feel anything.’ Basically, I’m trying to say I’m bringing the struggle into a more of joyful, melodic sound.”
During the pre-chorus, he sings, “I got 99 problems like Jay-Z/Caught a felony, a judge tried to save me.” According to the Bronx rapper, he was locked up for a “little over a year” on a robbery charge; while imprisoned, he practiced the fundamentals for his rapping career.
“It was not fun,” he says. “It’s nothing that I would want to do again, but I learned a lot from it. I feel like if I wasn’t to go to jail, I probably wouldn’t be the person I am — I wouldn’t. Cause I wouldn’t have sat down and wrote those songs and I never would’ve been able to focus on what I want to accomplish. So it’s like it was actually a good thing for me. It made me open my eyes and stuff like that.”
The first song he recorded when he got out was “Resume.” Lyrically, the song is a crude screed against “average” women; it showed an inkling of Tjay’s sense of songcraft and was recorded the first time he was in a studio. When he released the song on SoundCloud, Tjay barely had a social media presence.
The only platform he used was Facebook. By his estimate, on the second day of its release, the song had 5,000 listens. A year later, the song is at 13.7 million streams on SoundCloud and over 8.5 million views on YouTube.
“I just posted the link and I just made sure all my friends posted it,” he recalls. “Everybody heard the song before it dropped and they were like, ‘Yo, you gotta drop this.’ And then I just dropped it.
Everybody I knew posted it at one time, and then just I guess other people from different places started reposting it and they actually listened to it and then it started to go crazy.”
It’s hard to fathom how a kid with a non-existent social footprint engendered so much buzz, so quickly. He is now a regular staple on SoundCloud’s Top 50 chart, a growing bastion for major-label-backed artists. Tjay is coy regarding his pre-fame popularity, especially in his neighborhood — “Nah, I was regular.
I was regular. Some people knew me, some people didn’t.” He’s equally elusive about his deal with Columbia Records, even as he sits under their roof for our conversation. On “Leaked,” he raps “Lowkey ’cause the industry I’m not the old me,” which is a little humorous, considering his career is still in its fledgling stages.
As far as he’s concerned, there isn’t an overarching plan for his first album. In fairness, why should there be? Tjay has made it this far dropping one-off singles and waiting for the millions of streams to roll in. He’s direct about his methods: “If I don’t feel like it’s a hit then I don’t feel like dropping it.”
Nevertheless, the young rapper has already witnessed what a bubbling rap career can do for the people around him.
“When I had come out of jail I saw a lot of my friends go into jail, stuff like that,” he says. “Once I realized music was working, I was getting money off of shows and I figured that I could find success through music. I realized it’s no reason to just be doing just on the block, doing illegal stuff. I see a lot of motivation that comes from [that] — a lot of people look at me like, ‘Damn, it’s a way out.’”
Lil Tjay Net Worth
The Lil Tjay is not as popular, he is still growing. His worth is not yet calculated even though he is making the income from his videos and shows, we can say that his net worth is estimated at $300 thousand as per now.
Lil Tjay Facts
The 18-year-old American rapper is known as Justin Bieber of the Bronx due to his melodic flow.
Lil Tjay is the rapper who was involved in a brawl with YBN Almighty Jay, TJ Porter and Bay Swag, in New York City. TMZ was the first to report that YBN Almighty had been robbed outside of Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
The site says that Almighty had been shopping with friends when Lil Tjay, 17, and his friends showed up. The two groups got into some verbal sparring before everything turned physical. On his Instagram page, Tjay goes by the moniker, “Prince of New York.” The rapper is a native of The Bronx.
Here’s what you need to know:
1. The Police Were Called to the Scene of the Robbery, But No Report Was Filed
Eventually, Almighty was separated from his group at which point he had his wallet, chain and shoes stolen. The TMZ report adds that the NYPD was called to the scene but no report was filled out. YBN Almighty Jay was last in the news at the beginning of March after it was reported that he was dating Blac Chyna.
2. Most Recently, Tjay Collaborated With Sky Katz
Most recently, Tjay collaborated with teenage singer Sky Katz. Katz told Billboard in February 2019 that her DJ is a close friend of Tjay’s, which is how the collaboration came to be. Katz went on to say that Tjay was six hours late for their first studio date and was “even later” for their video shoot at Brooklyn Zoo.
The pair’s video was directed by Spike Tarantino. Despite this, Katz said that she would work with Tjay again saying, “I’d want to work with Tjay again, but I’d tell him four hours before the scheduled time. The Prince of New York is what he calls himself. He holds his own and has a cool flow. He’s up next to New York.”
3. Tjay Has Just Signed With Columbia Records
Billboard reported on February 28 that Tjay had recently signed with Columbia Records, home of Beyonce and Pharrell Williams. A Rolling Stone feature on Tjay from earlier in 2019 describes his style as “insanely joyful pop music with a sobering edge.” In that feature, Tjay described his “older influences” as Meek Mill and Drake.
Tjay told Rolling Stone, “I feel like a lot of times when stuff is on my mind, I really don’t show it. I know how to hide my emotions. I can say what’s going on and not make you want to feel down. A lot of time I like to sing music that people can relate to, but not necessarily put them in a depressed mood.
In ‘Brothers’ I’m saying, ‘Bodies drop all the time, I don’t feel anything.’ Basically, I’m trying to say I’m bringing the struggle into a more of joyful, melodic sound.”
4. At 15, Tjay Spent Over a Year in Prison
Tjay told Pitchfork in an interview that at 15, he was sentenced to serve time in a youth detention centre after he was found guilty of committing a string of robberies. Tjay did not go into details about the incident. As he was a minor, his record is sealed.
In his Rolling Stone interview, Tjay said he had been sentenced to serve “little over a year.” Tjay added, “It was not fun. It’s nothing that I would want to do again, but I learned a lot from it. I feel like if I wasn’t to go to jail, I probably wouldn’t be the person I am — I wouldn’t.
Cause I wouldn’t have sat down and written those songs and I never would’ve been able to focus on what I want to accomplish. So it’s like it was actually a good thing for me. It made me open my eyes and stuff like that.”
5 Lil Tjay Is Being Dragged Online Over the Incident
As news of the brawl involving YBN Almighty Jay spread, Lil Tjay has been dragged on Twitter by fans.
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