T-Minus (record producer)

T-Minus
T-Minus
Background information
Birth name	Tyler Williams
Also known as	T-Minus
Born	February 25, 1988; Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Hip hop; trap; R&B;
Occupation(s)	Record producer; songwriter;
Instruments	Drums; Keyboard; Turntable; Sampler; FL Studio;
Years active	2006–present
Associated acts	Drake; Nicki Minaj; Beyoncé; Lil Wayne; Nikhil Seetharam; T.I.; Justin Bieber; Kendrick Lamar;

Tyler Williams (born February 25, 1988), professionally known as T-Minus, is a Canadian Grammy award-winning and multi-platinum selling record producer. He has produced hit records and worked with many popular artists including Drake, Nicki Minaj, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, Camila Cabello, Travis Scott, Justin Bieber, Belly, ASAP Rocky, Big Sean, DJ Khaled, 2 Chainz, Lana Del Rey, Sia, J. Cole and more. He is one of Drake’s longest and most frequent collaborators, contributing to songs such as "H.Y.F.R", “The Motto”, “Make Me Proud” (featuring Nicki Minaj) and "Blem".

He has garnered over 20 awards and nominations including Grammys, Platinum certifications, and BMI’s Producer of the Year (earned on multiple occasions).

Early life

T-Minus first started experimenting with music as a student at Pickering High School. "I’ve always loved music," he says. "I used to play the drums, so I’ve always been interested in music in that way." After sitting at the drum kit for a few years, he decided to try making his own rhythms, so he downloaded a digital audio workstation program called Fruity Loops when he was 15 years old and was soon creating entire songs.^[1]

Artistry

"I’m just taking things to a new place as far as music goes. I don’t want to go to the same route that I was going to before so far as how everything sounds, how everything sits in your ears... I’m going back to the roots of R&B, mid-’90s, from hearing a Timbaland record, an Aaliyah, something from Blackground Music, for example. When the music had so much emotion."^[2]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Result
2011	Grammy Awards	Best Rap Solo Performance ("Ludacris - How Low")	Nominated
2013	Grammy Awards	Best Rap Song ("Drake featuring Lil Wayne - The Motto")	Nominated
2014	Grammy Awards	Album of the Year (Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.a.A.d City)	Nominated

He also won Top Producer at the 2012 BMI Urban Awards.

Discography

Singles produced

Year	Single	Chart positions						Album
Year	Single	US Hot 100	US R&B	US Rap	US Pop	CAN	UK	Album
2009	"How Low" (Ludacris)	6	2	1	–	41	67	Battle of the Sexes
2010	"Moment 4 Life" (Nicki Minaj featuring Drake)	13	1	1	18	27	22	Pink Friday
2011	"I'm On One" (DJ Khaled featuring Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne)	10	1	1	35	67	78	We the Best Forever
	"She Will" (Lil Wayne featuring Drake)	3	1	2	–	16	58	Tha Carter IV
	"Make Me Proud" (Drake featuring Nicki Minaj)	9	1	1	–	25	49	Take Care
	"The Motto" (Drake featuring Lil Wayne)	14	1	1	25	38	22
2012	"HYFR" (Drake featuring Lil Wayne)	62	20	17	–	–	–
	"My Moment" (DJ Drama featuring 2 Chainz, Meek Mill and Jeremih)	89	23	16	–	–	–	Quality Street Music
	"Swimming Pools (Drank)" (Kendrick Lamar)	17	3	3	–	–	63	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
	"Go Get It" (T.I.)	77	40	23	–	86	–	Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head
	"She Don't Put It Down" (Joe Budden featuring Lil Wayne and Tank)	96	32	–	–	–	–	No Love Lost
2013	"Rich as Fuck" (Lil Wayne featuring 2 Chainz)	38	11	9	–	–	–	I Am Not a Human Being II
2013	"Heartbreaker" (Justin Bieber)	13	–	–	–	15	14	Journals
2017	"Somethin Tells Me" (Bryson Tiller)	74	29	–	–	–	84	True to Self
2017
"Broke" (Lecrae)	–	–	–	–	–	–	All Things Work Together

2007

Drake - Comeback Season

05. "Replacement Girl" (featuring Trey Songz) (produced with Boi-1da)

2008

Plies - Da REAList

15. "Co-Defendant"

Papa Duck

00. "Look At My Swagg" (featuring Rick Ross & Ace Hood)

Tyra B.

00. "Break You Up"

2009

LeToya Luckett - Lady Love

11. "Drained"

Mýa - Beauty & The Streets Vol.1

15. "Black Out"

Birdman - Priceless

01. "Intro"

Birdman - Family Over Everything

02. "She Knows" (featuring Lil Wayne)

Ace Hood - The Preview

15. "White Leather"

Jazzfeezy - Jazzfeezy Presents: Unveiling the Rapture

03. Unstoppable" (featuring Burna, Bass Line and Dean Gray) (produced with Jazzfeezy)
04. "Words Won't Do" (featuring August) (produced with Jazzfeezy and Boi-1da)
14. "Flying High" (featuring Phax and Red Shortz) (produced with Jazzfeezy)

Rebstar - Arrival

12. "Without You" (featuring Trey Songz)

The Weeknd

00. "Our Love"

2010

Donnis - Fashionably Late

05. "Tonight"

Ludacris - Battles of the Sexes

02. "How Low"^[3]
16. "How Low (Remix)" (featuring Ciara & Pitbull)

Travis Porter - Proud to Be a Problem

14. "Mighty Mighty" (featuring F.L.Y.)

Travis Porter - I Am Travis Porter

17. "Lay Ya Body Down"

Diggy Simmons - Airborne

02. "Thinkin' 'Bout U" (featuring Bei Maejor)

A-Game - PilotModeMuzik

00. "Go Head Shawty"
00. "Airplanes"
00. "Don't Be Mad"

Lil Scrappy - Prince of the South 2

Leftover

00. "Get Lost" (featuring Cutty)

P. Reign

00. "In My Hood"

Lyfe Jennings - I Still Believe

01. "Statistics"
02. "Love"
04. "Spotlight"
07. "Mama"
10. "Learn From This"

T.I. - No Mercy

12. "Poppin Bottles" (featuring Drake)

Ciara - Basic Instinct

09. "Turn It Up" (featuring Usher)

Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday

07. "Moment 4 Life" (featuring Drake)

Luu Breeze - HollaLaLuuie

05. "Makin' A Killin'" (featuring Vado)

2011

DJ Khaled - We the Best Forever

01. "I'm On One" (featuring Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne) (produced with 40 and Kromatik)

Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV

06. "She Will" (featuring Drake)

Wale - Ambition

11. "Ambition" (featuring Meek Mill & Rick Ross)

T-Pain - RevolveR

01. "Bang Bang Pow Pow" (featuring Lil Wayne)

Drake - Take Care

07. "Under Ground Kings" (Produced with Noah "40" Shebib)
08. "We'll Be Fine" (featuring Birdman)
09. "Make Me Proud" (featuring Nicki Minaj)
14. "HYFR" (featuring Lil Wayne)
19. Bonus Track: "The Motto" (featuring Lil Wayne)

A-Game - Since 1988

11. "Cool Boyz" / 00. "Cool Boyz" (Remix) (featuring Red Cafe)

Don Trip & Starlito - Step Brothers

12. "Pray For Me"

Alley Boy - Definition of Fuck Shit 2

07. "Word Law" (featuring Veli Sosa)

Birdman & Mack Maine - Billionaire Minds

04. "Mr. Lottery" (featuring Short Dawg & Jae Millz)

2012

T.I. - Fuck da City Up

03. "Hot Wheels" (featuring Travis Porter & Young Dro)

Melanie Fiona - The MF Life

04. "I Been That Girl"

Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

07. "Champion" (featuring Nas, Drake and Young Jeezy) (produced with Boi-1da)

D-WHY - Don't Flatter Yourself

Leftover

00. "Macchiato Music"

Burd & Keyz - Keyz of Life

05. "Faithful" (featuring Luu Breeze, A-Game & Jahron B) (produced with Burd & Keyz)

Tank - This Is How I Feel

05. "Compliments" (featuring Kris Stephens & T.I.)

DJ Drama - Quality Street Music

03. "My Moment" (featuring 2 Chainz, Meek Mill & Jeremih)

Slaughterhouse - Welcome to: Our House

04. "Throw That" (featuring Eminem) (co-produced by Eminem)
12. "Frat House" (co-produced by Eminem and Nikhil S.)

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city

09. "Swimming Pools (Drank)"

Cyhi the Prynce - Ivy League Club

13. "Tomorrow"

Roscoe Dash - Roscoe 2.0

17. "Substance Abuse"

T-Pain - Stoic

03. "Don't You Quit"

Keyshia Cole - Woman to Woman

02. Zero (featuring Meek Mill) {{small|(produced with Vidal)
11. Forever

T.I. - Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head

08. "Go Get It"
09. "Guns and Roses" (featuring P!nk)
12. "Addresses"

ASAP Rocky - Long. Live. ASAP

03. "PMW (All I Need)" (featuring ScHoolboy Q)

2013

Jigg - High Grade 2

03. "So Hot"

Joe Budden - No Love Lost

03. "She Don't Put It Down" (featuring Lil Wayne & Tank)
17. "She Don't Put It Down (Remix)" (featuring Fabolous, Twista & Tank)

Lil Wayne - I Am Not a Human Being II

09. "Rich as Fuck" (featuring 2 Chainz)

Kelly Rowland - Talk a Good Game

04. "Talk a Good Game" (featuring Kevin Cossom)

Justin Bieber - Journals

01. "Heartbreaker" (produced with Maejor Ali & Chef Tone)

2014

Wink Loc

00. "Want Me Dead (featuring Jeezy and Jigg)"

Bizzle - Well Wishes

13. "You Know (Remix)" (featuring Lecrae) (produced with Boi-1da)

Eric Bellinger - The Rebirth

06. "Delorean" (produced with Matthew Burnett)

Tinashe

00. "In The Meantime"

2015

Big Sean - "Dark Sky Paradise"

07. "Win Some, Lose Some" (produced with Boi-1da)

Ludacris - "Ludaversal"

16. "Problems" (featuring Cee-Lo Green)

2016

Travis Scott - Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight

14. "wonderful" (featuring The Weeknd) (produced with Boi-1da, Mike Dean and Travis Scott)

2017

Drake - More Life

07. "Blem" (produced with Frank Dukes)
12. "Sacrifices" (featuring 2 Chainz and Young Thug) (produced with Deejae)

Bryson Tiller - True to Self

18. "Somethin Tells Me"

Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life

06. "Summer Bummer" (produced with Jahaan Sweet, Boi-1da and Rick Nowels)

Lecrae - All Things Work Together

03. "Broke" (produced with Nikhil Seetharam and Boi-1da)

PartyNextDoor - Seven Days

03. "Damage" (with Halsey) (produced with Frank Dukes)

Belly - Mumble Rap

02. "Make a Toast" (produced with Boi-1da, Vinylz, Allen Ritter and DannyBoyStyles)
03. "The Come Down Is Real Too"

2018

6LACK - East Atlanta Love Letter

06. "Pretty Little Fears" (featuring J. Cole) (produced with Yacob)

Camila Cabello - Camila

05. "Inside Out" (produced with Frank Dukes)

Rich the Kid - The World Is Yours

10. "Early Morning Trappin" (featuring Trippie Redd) (produced with J. Valle)

Tinashe - Joyride

04. "He don't want it"

2 Chainz - The Play Don't Care Who Makes It

02. "Proud" (featuring YG & Offset) (produced with J. Valle)

J. Cole - KOD

07. "Kevin's Heart" (produced with Mark Pelli)

Drake - Scorpion

25. "March 14" (produced with J. Valle)

SAFE

"No Diamonds" (produced with ADP)

References

↑ Dolabaille, DC. "Who is T-Minus?". Black Ink Magazine. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
↑ Krishnamurthy, Sowmya. "T-Minus on What Happened to "Partynauseous" and Writing New Drake Beats". MTV. Retrieved 2012-11-13.
↑ http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1623626/20091012/puff_daddy.jhtml

External links

T-Minus on Instagram

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[1] Dolabaille, DC. "Who is T-Minus?". Black Ink Magazine. Retrieved 2010-01-17.

[2] Krishnamurthy, Sowmya. "T-Minus on What Happened to "Partynauseous" and Writing New Drake Beats". MTV. Retrieved 2012-11-13.

[3] ttp://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1623626/20091012/puff_daddy.jhtml

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