Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to YSJ Tyy. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

YSJ , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. The first dollar you earn is always exciting – it’s like the start of a new chapter and so we’d love to hear about the first time you sold or generated revenue from your creative work?

My first time getting paid actually was by a feature. This artist by the name of Milan Khera found me on instagram. He dm me like wassup bro i liked your song “sorry” on Spotify. And i got fan messages b4 i thought he was just a fan but then he asked can he get me on a ft. Now i know i aint famous but we all want to get paid for our work so i think i asked for like 80-100 most just to cover stu time really. He explained he was a college student and i said just give me 60 bro and that was that. Our song has a star on his apple album and i love it

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

So how i actually started rapping was i was on my ps4 wayyy back in like 2019 and u know most guys we got lor raps in our phone that we do when we bored. My Old head/now manager Tazz heard me rapping and was like that shit hard u need to record it. Now i never went to a studio or anything i was like what man im just playing round. Then he was like i can find u a stu and i will pay for it all u gotta do is rap. Im black so if its free in going so we went and lets just say it was ok at best but over time as we found more studios and i worked on my rapping it has gotten wayyy better nobody has ever heard the songs from my very first studio session except me him the engineer and 1 close friend of mine

Looking back, are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

One resource i can say i wished i used earlier was just really letting go in a song. If u listen to my very first project from 2019 on apple yes u can hear a little of me talk about meaningful/ my style of rap in the songs like “Real Shit” and “Sorry” but i tried to give people a lot of what they wanted to hear and not really how i felt, and i feel an artist giving u what they really feel inside thru music then the song will attract all the right people. I realized if i just made my style music that music that u run back 10 times that music that u make the “That was Hard face to thats me and i do that by venting my life when i write and i learnt that after i wrote “Open Book Story” that song was really me letting go of a lot i was holding in and people Loved it and it made me just be at peace of when i vent the right ones going feel.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

For me i do this really now as a hobby even though some people believe i can do it as a profession. The most rewarding part to me is when it is 12:48 am one of my engineers is dicing and cutting up a track i just laid down got me sounding amazing and does the final cuts and mixes and he plays it thru straight for the first time and your vibing he vibing if people are in the studio they vibing and everybody in there know u just made a BANGER. Even if they never hear it again it never goes platinum never get heard by millions. In the moment when y’all all vibing rapping the lyrics dancing to the beat bopping your head to the beat and in that moment u the reason the room vibing thats what its all about right there

Contact Info:

• Website: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ysj-tyy/1450731251
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ysj_tyy/?utm_medium=copy_link
• Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCTi5y3V_4kvWtilF634021g/videos

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Last Photo “McGlockShots” – IG