Lil Tjay's debut 'True 2 Myself' - "hookiest rap album of the year"

Lil Tjay spent multiple two and three-month sentences for robberries, and in 2016, at the age of 15, he was sentenced to one year in a youth detention center. Last week, the New York rap-balladeer, barely 18, released his debut album 'True 2 Myself'. Consequence of Sound compares Tjay to Usher and Justin Bieber - "Now more than ever, cynicism is an animating force in hip-hop. At a time when so much of this music is so jaundiced, it’s refreshing, even purifying, to encounter a rap album without an axe to grind. There’s no bitterness in Tjay’s voice, just yearning".