1. Tyga's mother, Pasionaye Nicole Nguyen, was born in Vietnam and had the maiden name Nguyen.
47 Facts About Tyga
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Tyga grew up listening to Fabolous, Lil Wayne, Cam'ron, and Eminem, among others.
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Tyga claimed to have been brought up in the low socioeconomic area of Compton, but in leaked footage from the unaired television show Bustas, he claimed he grew up in a "well-to-do" home in the Valley, where his parents drove a Range Rover.
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Tyga claimed that he attained his nickname from his mother calling him Tiger Woods.
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Tyga's career began with him releasing a multitude of demo tapes and mixtapes.
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On June 10,2008, Tyga released his debut studio album, No Introduction through Decaydance Records and McCoy's label, BatSquad Records.
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In late 2008, Tyga signed a new record deal with Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment, which was a subsidiary of Cash Money Records at the time.
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Tyga met Wayne at the 2008 VMA's, performing the remix of Fall Out Boy's "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race".
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Tyga appeared on the label's posse cut hit single "Bedrock" shortly after his signing.
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Tyga later released the mixtape Fan of a Fan with singer Chris Brown and producers DJ Ill Will and DJ Rockstar.
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Tyga told MTV in an interview that the mixtape's production took just short of a week.
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Tyga stated that the album shows he has grown up but still relates to the kids.
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Tyga signed the soundtrack, which includes the hits "Rack City" and "Faded" together with several original songs, and he appeared in the film in a non-sex role.
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Tyga performed at Harvard University's Yardfest in the Spring of 2013, despite opposition from critics who've signed a petition seeking to keep him away over what they call his "violently misogynistic lyrics".
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On October 21,2013, Tyga premiered "Wait for a Minute" featuring Justin Bieber.
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Tyga then confirmed that an album would be released in early 2014.
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Tyga explained that the album would, be more "way less commercial".
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On May 1,2014, Tyga made a tweet referring to Kanye West, Mike Dean, and his own producer Jess Jackson with a hash-tag The Gold Album.
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Tyga was featured on Chris Brown's single "Loyal", he was featured on the video version, the song since then peaked at number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100.
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On May 28,2014, Tyga released a new song entitled "Real Deal" via SoundCloud.
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On September 12,2014, Tyga announced via his instagram that his new single titled "40 Mill" would be produced by Kanye West, Mike Dean, Dupri and his own producer Jess Jackson, artwork, The release date was not revealed though.
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Tyga criticized Drake in an October 2014 interview, calling Drake "fake" and said that he did not like Nicki Minaj.
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On October 21,2014, Tyga lashed out on his record label Young Money Entertainment, reporting that his album was completed, but that his music was being "held hostage" by the label, who would not allow him to release it, and stated that he was considering leaking the album.
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On December 4,2014, Tyga made a tweet declaring his project, The Gold Album: 18th Dynasty would be released independently due to not being on good terms with label Cash Money Records.
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In February 2015, Tyga released a collaborative album with Chris Brown, titled Fan of a Fan: The Album.
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On June 23,2015, Tyga released The Gold Album for streaming exclusively on Spotify then later on Apple Music.
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Tyga's reality show Kingin' with Tyga premiered on July 24,2015, on MTV2.
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On September 7,2016, Kanye West, who, like Tyga, was in a relationship to a Kardashian at the time, announced that he had signed Tyga to his GOOD Music imprint, under the aegis of Def Jam Recordings.
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On July 17,2017, it was announced that Tyga will join as a series regular in the third season of the VH1 slasher television series Scream.
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On February 16,2018, Tyga released his sixth studio album, Kyoto.
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On May 16,2018, Tyga released the single "Taste" featuring Offset of Migos.
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In July 2020, Tyga partnered with businessman Robert Earl to launch a virtual kitchen brand called Tyga Bites, which uses existing restaurants' kitchens to produce branded menu items such as boneless chicken wings for delivery service only.
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In 2021, Tyga competed on the sixth season of The Masked Singer as "Dalmatian".
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In 2024, Tyga announced his eighth studio album, titled NSFW.
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Tyga filed for divorce one month later, and it was finalized in 2011.
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Blac Chyna was cast as Tyga's leading lady in his "Rack City" music video.
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On October 16,2012, their son, named King Cairo, was born, and Tyga purchased a $6.5 million mansion in Calabasas, California that same month.
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Tyga dated British social model Demi Rose for a short time in 2016.
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On February 21,2025, Tyga announced that his mother, Pasionaye Nicole Nguyen, had died at age 53 a month earlier on January 18.
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In June 2008, Tyga was robbed of his jewelry by unknown assailants.
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In late 2012, Tyga was sued by two women who appeared in the "Make It Nasty" video for $10 million each; they claimed he had shown their nipples without their consent.
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On September 4,2013, it was reported Tyga had been sued by Beverly Hills-based jeweler Jason Arasheben for allegedly not paying for roughly $91,000 worth of jewelry.
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Arasheben claims that Tyga agreed to pay $28,275 for the jeweler's diamond pantheon watch in August 2012 and that he borrowed a $63,000 diamond Cuban link chain in December 2012 and never returned the item, so he sued Tyga for the cost of both pieces, plus late fees, which totaled up to $185,306.50 in damages, double the original total cost.
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Tyga fell ill before the interrogation of this debt and was considered not able to proceed.
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Tyga did not bring the documents he was supposed to he paid $100,000 of the $200,000 owed to his client.
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In June 2015, a judge ordered Tyga to pay an $80,000 settlement to a former landlord, who rented a home to the rapper in the city of Calabasas, California.
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In October 2021, Tyga was arrested by police over domestic abuse charges.