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Leon Thomas and Ty Dolla Sign on the 2024 BET Awards

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Key Takeaways:

• Ty Dolla Sign praised Leon Thomas in a Billboard interview, calling him the “new king” of R&B and highlighting his artistry.
• Thomas’ behind-the-scenes work contains writing and producing hits like SZA’s “Snooze” and Drake’s “Love All.”
• With his album ‘MUTT’ and his “Mutts Don’t Heel Tour,” Thomas is entering into the highlight as a solo R&B pressure.

Leon Thomas is the “new king of this s**t,” in keeping with Ty Dolla Sign. On Wednesday (July 16), in an interview printed by Billboard, the West Coast powerhouse made positive to offer his “FAR FETCHED” collaborator his flowers whereas he’s nonetheless right here to understand them.

“He’s the easiest artist I’ve worked with — ever in life,” Ty Dolla Sign mentioned of Thomas, who’s signed to his EZMNY imprint. He instructed the publication, “He’s the new example of what an artist should be, in my eyes.” Outside of their artist-label relationship, Thomas beforehand contributed fairly a bit to Ty Dolla Sign and Kanye West’s VULTURES installments, notably songs like “BURN,” “SLIDE” and “FOREVER ROLLING.”

There actually isn’t a lot Thomas can’t do, music-wise. On high of being the extremely proficient singer that he’s, the “YES IT IS” artist can produce, write and even play devices. According to REVOLT, he’s labored on data like SZA’s “Snooze,” Drake’s “Love All” and Ella Mai’s “Not Another Love Song,” amongst loads of others.

Elsewhere within the dialog, Ty Dolla Sign hilariously recalled Thomas pulling up a “f**king PowerPoint” throughout a label assembly that they had with Capitol and Motown Records for MUTT. “This man pulls out his laptop and asks for it to be hooked up to the TV so we can talk about what’s going to happen with this new album,” the “Or Nah” hitmaker mentioned.

According to him, Thomas got here ready: “These are the colors I want to use. This is the stage. These are videos, and the people I want to work with for the videos. And these are the people who I want to style me. And this is the work.” To be honest — and Ty Dolla Sign possible agrees — MUTT was an amazing LP with a fair higher rollout. Every element, from its cover art to collaborations with Masego, Wale and extra, served a transparent imaginative and prescient.

Both Thomas and Ty Dolla Sign have busy years forward of them. The “Mutts Don’t Heel Tour” is slated to start in August, whereas TYCOON, the “Paranoid” singer’s forthcoming album, is about to reach earlier than the top of this yr. Hopefully, followers get one other collaboration between the 2 as soon as it arrives.