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15 Things you don’t know about Tyga
- His real name is Michael Ray Nguyen-Stevenson
- Rapper Travie McCoy Is his cousin.
- He is of Vietnamese and Jamaican descent
- He grew up listening to Fabolous, Lil Wayne, Cam’ron and Eminem
- He got his Young Money deal after the success of his Young On Probation mixtape in 2007
- He is currently in a relationship with dancer Blac Chyna, the couple has one child together.
- He has a tattoo on his chest that say s”fear none but God”
- Tyga said he said that he was never dependent on the label for his success. During an interview he stated “I’ve always treated my career like independent,” he said. “Everything that I got is because of myself, my own endorsements, my own touring myself.”
- His most successful rap song was Rack City, which climbed all the way up to #7 on the billboard top 100.
- Tyga directed an adult film, Rack City: The XXX Movie
- He has Over 20 tattoos
- His First Single Was (Coconut Juice)
- He Born November,19,1989
- He was an unofficial part of Gym Class Heroes crew
- That moment came at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. The night before the show Tyga found out that he would be perform the “Arms Race” remix with Fall Out Boy alongside Travis and Lil Wayne. Unexpectedly thrust into such a huge arena, most young artists would crumble under the pressure. Instead, Tyga stepped up and traded vocal jabs on a stage full of pop-culture heavyweights in front of millions of viewers. The star had arrived. Thoroughly impressed by the youngster’s gusto, Tyga and Weezy became fast friends. Wayne remembers “At rehearsal I thought he was just a stand in, but when the cameras were rolling I realized he wasn’t playing around”. Soon, Tyga would find himself in the studio with the self-proclaimed “greatest rapper alive” laying down verses for an appearance on the most anticipated album in years – Lil Wayne’s The Carter 3.
