Tyrone "Ty" Fyffe (also known as Sugarless) is an American

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from

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. During his career he produced tracks for MC Lyte, Foxy Brown, Slick Rick, Ja Rule, Canibus,

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, Queen Pen,

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, remixed songs for

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, The Party, Royal Flush, Robin Thicke and

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, and collaborated with Teddy Riley, Erick Sermon,

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and

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. Fyffe met Teddy Riley through fellow music engineer Franklin Grant. In 1992, Fyffe joined Riley, Grant, David Wynn and Wreckx-n-Effect on the production duties of ''

Hard or Smooth ''Hard or Smooth'' is the second album released by Wreckx-n-Effect. It was released on November 24, 1992, for MCA Records and featured production from Teddy Riley, Ty Fyffe, Riley's engineers Franklyn Grant and David Wynn and Wreckx-n—Effect. T ...

'', which spawned the hit song " Rump Shaker". In January 1993, the single received 2× Platinum certification by the

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and the album went Platinum. Fyffe continued to work in a team with Riley and Grant, and from 1993 to 1994 he contributed on Father MC, MC Lyte,

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& Doctor Dré projects. In 1995, he eventually began credited as 'Sugarless' during his collaborations with Erick Sermon. By the end of the 1990s, his portfolio includes works with Sermon,

, Redman, Craig Mack, McGruff, Foxy Brown, Slick Rick, Big Pun and Murder Inc. among others. He produced A+'s " Enjoy Yourself" to international success, and provided additional production to

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's "

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". After working on Murder Inc.'s "Murdergram" song from '' Streets Is Watching Soundtrack'', he began to collaborate with

and became a recurring producer for Ja Rule albums and fellow Roc-A-Fella acts, such as

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. Since 2001, Fyffe has begun collaborating with hip hop artists across the United States, since up to 2000, his entire clientele consisted of East Coast hip hop musicians. Thus, he had a hand in the

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artists such as

's 2001 ''

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'' and Xzibit's 2002 ''

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'',

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acts such as

's 2002 '' Rock City'' and 2004 '' Death Is Certain'', Bone Thugs-n-Harmony's 2007 '' Strength & Loyalty'' and Twista's 2017 ''Crook County'', and Southern hip hop groups such as

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's 2002 '' Side Hustles'' and

's 2003 '' All or Nothin'''. After the success of "

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", which was co-produced with

, Fyffe became a recurring producer for several

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projects, such as 2008 ''

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'',

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's 2009 ''

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'' and 2014 ''

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'' albums and

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's 2011 ''El Chapo'' mixtape. In 2010, Fyffe released a mixtape, ''The Pyrex'', hosted by DJ Superstar Jay. From 2010 to 2020 he produced tracks for

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("Smooth Sailing", which appeared on Wu-Tang Killa Bees' ''Pollen: The Swarm Part Three'', and its remix version was included in ''

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''), Redman's 2010 ''

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'', Styles P's 2011 '' Master of Ceremonies'', Lazee's 2011 mixtape ''One Way Ticket'',

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's 2012 ''

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'', and Erick Sermon's 2019 '' Vernia''. Alongside fellow American producers Swede of 808 Mafia, Mars of

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and Tony Dofat, and Parisian producers Nicko of Soulchildren, Oliver of Drum Dreamers, Cedric Pistol, Nick D. Green and Tarik Azzouz, and Amsterdamer producer Shroom, Fyffe was one of twelve juries of the 3rd annual Beat Battle Music Producer Challenge, which took place at Gnarly Music in

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in 2019. He has his own studio, The Music Factory, in West Hempstead, New York.

Discography

* 2010: ''The Pyrex'' (hosted by DJ Superstar Jay)

Production discography

References

External links

* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fyffe, Ty Living people People from Queens, New York East Coast hip hop musicians African-American record producers American hip hop record producers Date of birth missing (living people) Record producers from New York (state) 21st-century African-American people 1971 births