MTV Artist of the Week - TYGA!

Young gun Tyga’s so confident you know his name that he went ahead and titled his debut LP No Introduction. But for the small handful of you who’ve only been listening to NPR or something and haven’t read Buzzworthy or Friendsorenemies in a minute, here’s what you need to know about the newcomer.

Tyga came up in Compton and was weaned on Busta Rhymes. He possesses an old-school spitfire style, a la early LL Cool J, with the pop appeal of Will Smith back when was still a young MC. After opening for Fall Out Boy and Gym Class Heroes — and performing with the latter, Panic At the Disco and Lil Wayne in a guest spot at the 2007 VMAs — an awed Weezy signed the rap rook to his Young Money Entertainment imprint. Barely a year later, No Introduction was born, and now Tyga’s getting hands everywhere up in the air with his breakthrough party anthem, “Coconut Juice,” in addition to flavor-enhanced fresh twists on time-tested themes like young love, money-makin’ abilities, and the epic magnitude of one’s own rap skills (and more millennial topics, like meeting chicks online).

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