Free TC
| Ty Dolla $ign
Free TC
Free TC is the debut studio album by Ty Dolla Sign. It was released on November 13, 2015, by Atlantic Records. As executive producers by Ty Dolla Sign and Wiz Khalifaenlisted a variety of collaborators; including DJ Mustard, DJ Spinz, Cardo, Johnny Juliano, R. Kelly, Kendrick Lamar, Brandy, Rae Sremmurd, E-40, Future, and Kanye West, among others. - Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
No one does baroque filth like Ty Dolla $ign. Free TC is an R&B epic of wanton bedroom jams, filled to the brim with charming grossness, actual prayers, and E-40. If you've been wondering what kind of sex music to play while you hump in your driverless car, this is it.
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Consequence of Sound
For all of Free TC’s turn-up nut-grabbing, it’s the beating heart that ends up stealing the show.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
It’s DJ Spinz’s deceptively simple beat, which swirls in maddening 8-bit sirens, that inspires an awesome hook tradeoff between Dolla $ign and Future.
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SPIN
Maybe now he’ll finally get the recognition he deserves for it, because whether you like it or not, a perennial sleazemonger has just turned out one of the year’s more visionary hip-hop albums — in a year that was full of great hip-hop.
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Rolling Stone
West Coast R&B star pairs beautiful hooks with dirty-old-man lyrics.
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FACT Magazine
This is not the moment where he will become a superstar, but it’s a promising beginning to what should be a very long career.
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The Verge
Free TC has Ty Dolla $ign at his most innovative and most seductive.
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Hot New Hip Hop
Ty Dolla $ign comes through with one of the strongest, most diverse R&B albums of the year.
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Pretty Much Amazing
Free TC is a well-crafted representation of his considerable talents.
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HipHopDX
So, all in all, Ty delivers a light, layered debut, with more depth than we thought could be drawn out of the trap&B sound he helped usher into the mainstream.
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The Spill Magazine
After years of working with others he’s got his own thing.
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The Needle Drop
Cali singer and songwriter Ty Dolla $ign's talents are undeniable, but I'm torn between the two halves of his commercial debut album.
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Ratings Game Music
Ty Dolla Sign has been given a chance to impress us with a timeless album to truly prove his worth in the game.
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Exclaim!
It's worth sticking around for.
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The Hundreds
Ty’s music just happens to come from the perspective of a dread-headed, smooth singing casanova instead of a suit and tie ’90s R&B artist.
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Music Connection
Still young in the game, Ty has a long way to build a successful musical career; however, as a creative force he appears to be on the right path.
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Bradionow
“Free TC” is the perfect album for a true music lover.
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Financial Times
The ‘hook artist’ debuts with slow-burning R&B jams without chintz or melodrama with guests Kendrick and Kanye.
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The 405
While TC’s forthcoming freedom outside the prison walls aren’t quite assured, Ty Dolla $ign’s forthcoming dominance throughout the R&B/hip-hop landscape is essentially cemented.
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brent music reviews
Is it quality? Yes, but some cutbacks wouldn’t have been lamented.
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Illuminati 2G
Yes it’s a little mainstream, but being his debut album & his popularity, I didn’t expect anything less.
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The Urban Buzz
Overall, Free TC is a very well put together album and I recommend all of our readers, no matter what genre your into to go and check it out on Apple Music or Spotify.
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Crack Magazine
It’s certainly an impressive performance, but the come-on itself should probably be met with a raised eyebrow.
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mxdwn music
Taken as a whole, Free TC is a simultaneously strange, basic, enthralling and cringe-inducing collection—qualities few other albums can claim.
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All Music
Free TC tops all expectations, as the man conquers the club, the bedroom, and the brain with this end-to-end stunner.
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All Hip Hop
With Free TC, Ty Dolla $ign carves his niche as a vocalist who knows how to perfectly tread the thinning line between rap and R&B.
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Entertainment Weekly
Like many hip-hop debuts, Free TC could use some editing, but Ty has enough charm to carry bedroom jams, Cadillac bangers, and folk-funk experiments all at once.
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Stereo Embers Magazine
Ty Dolla $ign’s commercial debut is a must-listen for anyone with a fondness for R&B, since that which is lame is ultimately easy to look past — that which is truly great, however, shouldn’t be missed.
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Hype Fresh
Free TC does not straddle the fence on either side of the spectrum, it’s definitely a solid album that is fun but is far from traditional R&B standards.
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BeatRoute Magazine
Ty Dolla $ign has delivered an album slightly more mature than his earlier work, and slightly more diverse, while maintaining his ability to craft pop hooks and bring along strong guests. You don’t have to like what he’s saying but it’s hard not to be entertained by it.
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Behance
Though the album has big-name guests and covers a range of topics lyrically—partying, lust, and separation, among them—it’s Ty’s singing and production that make the album such a full, expressive statement that goes beyond his radio hits.
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North 6th
A tad bit disappointing but still awesome to have new songs from Ty Dolla $ign.
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Medium
While this record is not without its flaws, and maybe I could gripe a little about Ty bouncing back and forth between soulful R&B and trap a little too much, overall this record is an exhilarating dive headfirst into Ty Dolla $ign’s world.
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