♪ I remember last year niggas went to Coney ♪
♪ Never thought that this year I'd have a deal with Sony ♪
♪ Lil Tjay SB, I'm the one and only ♪
♪ And I just came home and everybody know me ♪
Give it up for Lil TJay.
Right on, man. I like having New York artists on the show
because it feels like a little bit of a Homecoming parade.
We have Young M.A. from Brooklyn,
of course, a few weeks back.
You're from the Bronx, the birthplace of hip hop.
Is that a responsibility you feel a little bit
as an artist when you come from there?
Yeah. I ain't going to lie, being from the Bronx
it feels good just to know it's the home of hip hop.
You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
I just feel like, I don't know,
it's another reason to keep my head high.
So what artist shaped your sound early on?
It doesn't have to be Bronx artists or New York artists,
but who was big for you?
I grew up listening to artists like Lil Wayne, Drake.
I ain't going to lie, it's a lot of them.
Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, too. When I was little...
I'm glad.
I'm just going to be honest.
I'll tell you right now, he's a huge fan--
I'm going to just be honest.
And I'm glad you said that because the first time
I ever heard this man's music was at the OVO shop down on
Bond Street here in New York City
and they were just playing it off of a SoundCloud.
This is over a year ago.
And you were doing Baby by Bieber.
And I thought that was so cool.
You were flipping it, you made it your own.
But where did that come from?
You were a Belieber back in the day?
I don't know. I'm creative,
I try to be creative, you know what I'm saying?
So if that caught the ladies, I might as well... feel me?
And the rest was history for hip hop's heart throb.
You call yourself the Prince of New York.
Where'd you get that name from?
I felt like I was the youngest putting on.
It's still nobody my age really putting on,
you know what I'm saying?
Yeah. Feel me?
What do you guys think? Is he the Prince of New York?
Here we go. I appreciate that.
Now give me your princess. Who's the Princess of New York?
If your the prince, who are you making your princess?
[crosstalk] Shoot your shot right now.
Okay, look. Who can save me the loudest.
Oh yeah, I guess she the princess.
There we go.
I'm convinced you can see the future, Lil TJay.
If you go back to Forbes,
a song you dropped two yeas ago, man, you go,
"Look at us right now and then look at us in two years.
It's going to be complete difference."
And here we are two years later.
You were only 16 when you said that.
Where do you get that foresight from?
Talk to me about the vision.
I always been real confident in myself.
I don't know how, but it always felt like
I was going to be successful since I was a kid.
I don't know what made me believe it so strongly,
but I could tell.
There's a lot of people I know that I used to be like,
"Yo, watch me be famous one day."
And they'd be like, "Yo, that's crazy."
TJay does say this before.
You know what's important? You put in the work too.
Yeah. That's the thing, too. I put in the work.
I knew I was going to do it. You know what I'm saying?
Anything that you really go for hard enough, you can do it.
Especially if you've seen somebody else do it before.
Yeah. I love that, man. I love that.
The song that made our countdown on TRL
Top 10 earlier this year, Pop Out with Pola G.
You guys know this one? This is a banger.
House parties, clubs, everybody loves this one.
Streaming numbers just out the wazoo, dude.
How did you two link up, you and Pola G?
Me and Polo, we both signed to the same label,
you know what I'm saying?
So I guess it was just a connection through there.
We had this organic, natural...again,
we just linked up in the studio.
This was the first song we ever made together too.
Really? Yeah.
And it came out this good?
Yeah. This is the first song we ever made.
And we just did the video.
I've got to ask, whose house is this?
My boy, Marley.
My boy, Marley's crib. You know what I'm saying?
You do great work with Polo G there.
I love your collabs. Give me your top three people
you want to collab with right now that you haven't.
But just put it out in the universe, right?
I'm going to go big.
Go huge. You're on TV right now.
I want to do a song with Drake, you know what I'm saying?
He's the GOAT.
Lil Wayne was definitely a big one too to me
but he's on the album so dreams for me definitely come true.
I want to do a song with Cardi.
That could be your princess right there of New York.
You guys running things.
Hey, look, man.
With Drake, would you want to do a rap
Drake song or would you want it to be an R&B vibe?
We could do whatever, honestly. Ask Drake.
♪ So I'm skrrting off the scene in a foreign, see me goin' ♪
♪ Me and YG up in Cali smoking GT out the bong ♪
♪ Everything is going Gucci, see me Lou' V ♪
♪ I can't let a nigga shoot me, I'm in a two seat ♪
♪ And before I speak about it, rather grab a loose leaf ♪
♪ Thirty clip of the dip, and I'm in a hoopty ♪
♪ And we spin the app block with a mini Uzi ♪
♪ Had to send a couple shots, I been acting bougie ♪
♪ All the sudden all these thots let me in they coochie ♪
♪ They gon' make they pussy pop tryna get my blue cheese ♪
♪ Low-key I be in the streets tryna ♪
♪ OD Low-key ♪
♪ 'cause the industry, I'm not the old me ♪
♪ Low-key started peeping niggas not my homies ♪
♪ Phony nigga ate that shit like macaroni ♪
♪ And I remember last year niggas went to Coney ♪
♪ Never thought that this year I'd have a deal with Sony ♪
♪ Lil Tjay SB, I'm the one and only ♪
♪ And I just came home and everybody know me ♪
♪ If you want another goat, guess you gotta clone me ♪
♪ Quit talkin' 'bout some loyalty you never showed me ♪
♪ Nigga, I don't owe you like you never owed me ♪
♪ Once I got a little clout, everybody know me ♪
♪ And we never had to prove this, we really do this ♪
♪ You was never in the field, you was on your school shit ♪
♪ Now my energy is boosted, my mind exuded ♪
♪ They gon' make a nigga lose it, they acting stupid ♪
♪ I got up out my Birkin, it's workin' ♪
♪ She said she a virgin, it's hurtin' ♪
♪ But she ain't never show me love when my pockets hurtin' ♪
♪ Now she see a nigga on, she fucking and slurping ♪
♪ And they see me puttin' on and it got them nervous ♪
♪ We don't never need to ball, I did it on purpose ♪
♪ And I used to play the block with the fiends, ♪
♪ got some knots to my jeans ♪
♪ If a nigga talk hot, we gon' pop for his bean ♪
♪ Nah, nah, I'm coming strong and they knew that ♪
♪ You ain't no competition, boy, don't think you wanna do that ♪
♪ (I'm like) you had your chance, but you blew that ♪
♪ (Lil Tjay) ♪
♪ Everybody asking who that? (Oh, no, no, no, no) ♪
♪ The fuck going on? ♪
♪ Someone in my circle started leaking all my songs ♪
♪ I'ma stay ten toes, I'ma still go strong ♪
♪ I don't get these snake niggas we just can't get along ♪
♪ So I'm skrrting off the scene in a foreign, see me goin' ♪
♪ Me and YG up in Cali smoking GT out the bong ♪
♪ Shawty pulled up in a thong, I don't know what she on ♪
♪ If she ask to spend the night ♪
♪ then I might give her what she want ♪
♪ Fuck her one time, maybe two times if she do fine ♪
♪ Make your boo mine, ♪
♪ I'm in the stu', this my new grind ♪
♪ I'm cooking up, I'm cooking up, ain't tryna lose time ♪
♪ I shoot it up, don't give a fuck, ain't tryna lose mine ♪
♪ Gangbang, growing up I was Stain Gang ♪
♪ Stain ♪
♪ Gang, promise I was only tryna maintain ♪
♪ Lil Tjay SB, that's the gang gang ♪
♪ Ask about me, bet they tell you how my name ring ♪
♪ And I know they gon' hate 'cause I'm up now ♪
♪ I'm at the point where I don't really give a fuck now ♪
♪ Free the guys, I'ma say it 'til they touch down ♪
♪ One day everybody have a bustdown ♪
♪ So I'm skrrting off the scene in a foreign, see me goin' ♪
♪ Me and YG up in Cali smoking GT out the bong ♪
♪ Shawty pulled up in a thong, I don't know what she on ♪
♪ If she ask to spend the night ♪
♪ then I might give her what she want ♪
♪ Fuck her one time, maybe two times if she do fine ♪
♪ Make your boo mine, ♪
♪ I'm in the stu', this my new grind ♪
♪ I'm cooking up, I'm cooking up, ain't tryna lose time ♪
♪ I shoot it up, don't give a fuck, ♪
♪ ain't tryna lose mine ♪