The lush, expansive album Ty played me at Electric Lady is not quite the one he’s releasing on October 23, though a handful of holdovers from those sessions made the cut - including the Kid Cudi collaboration “Temptations” “Track 6” with Kanye West, Thundercat, and Anderson. When you make seven songs a day, you get a new playlist. I’ll still probably drop that other sometime later during the year, or… Who knows? Maybe I won’t. Rare is the artist with the range and the connections who can put Kanye West and Diddy on the same song without being subsumed by two massive egos. Historically, his singles sound smooth and effortless, but his albums are densely layered, with unexpected twists. Dolla $ign was at Electric Lady putting the finishing touches on his third solo album, following 2015’s Free TC and 2017’s Beach House 3. I first met him over a year ago at Electric Lady Studios, a legendary facility nestled in a lower Manhattan side street with an unassuming façade, belying the fact that since its creation in 1970 (at the behest of Jimi Hendrix), it has been the birthing ground for a wealth of classic recordings from the likes of Stevie Wonder, Led Zeppelin, and Erykah Badu. Making music is as natural to him as exhaling. In an instant, it makes sense why he’s seemingly everywhere at once, adding sultry hooks to rap and R&B songs, penning hits you might not have known he was involved in as a writer. It’s quiet, and then there’s music, a hummed note, a tapped-out drum pattern. Ty Dolla $ign blows into a room like a melody unfurling.

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