Lil Tjay is an American rapper and singer who has released multiple hits and is best known for songs such as Beat the Odds.
Lil Tjay Net Worth
Lil Tjay’s annual income is over $ 200,000. He however has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.
His primary source of earnings is said to come from his music career.
The rapper won’t accept any offers less than $150,000 for a performance
Lil Tjay Biography
On April 30, 2001, Lil Tjay Vert whose real name is Tione Jayden Merritt was born in New York City in the United States of America.
He is 22 years old as of August 2023.
Lil TJay stands about 5ft 10m tall and his weight is about 67 kg or 148 pounds. He has a slim but attractive physique, particularly appealing to his genre.
He is an American national of African-American ethnicity.
He was raised single-handedly by his mother alongside his two younger siblings. He called himself the problematic child out of the three, as he would often get himself into petty robberies and school fights.
At the age of 15, Lil Tjay Vert was arrested for one of his robberies and was sentenced for a year to a youth detention centre where he would begin to write raps; they included one of his hit songs “Resume”, which he released on SoundCloud.
Merritt’s childhood friend, Smelly, was fatally stabbed in August 2016. Merritt pays tribute to his childhood friend in a number of his songs referencing his name, “Smelly”.
Lil Tjay was born and raised in the Fordham neighbourhood of the Bronx, New York City.
He has two younger siblings, Melvoni and Tione.
According to reports, he was raised by a single mother and has two younger siblings in what is described as a “roomy” apartment on 183rd Street in the Bronx.
Sadly, Lil Tjay was raised single-handedly by his mom and had no father figure throughout his childhood.
He came into the limelight in 2017 with his song “Resume“, and the release of his breakthrough song “Brothers” which led him to sign with Columbia Records that same year. Some of his hit songs include: “Sex Sounds”, “Calling My Name”, “Pop Out”, “Run It Up”, “F.N”, and “Gangsta Boo”.
Lil Tjay started sharing his music on SoundCloud in 2017. One of his tracks, “Resume,” gained attention online when he was only 16. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Lil Tjay revealed that his biggest influences are Drake, Meek Mill, and Usher. He often described his music as melodic, therefore reflecting his past struggles.
Months later, Lil Tjay successfully launched five tracks on SoundCloud that garnered over one million plays. The tracks included “Brothers,” “Resume,” “Goat,” and “Leaked,” each of them accumulating tens of millions of streams.
In July 2018, Lil Tjay collaborated with French Record Producer Cash Money AP to create the song “None of Your Love,” which also amassed millions of plays. Afterwards, the rapper released his debut EP titled “No Comparison”.
In January 2019, he collaborated with rapper Polo G on the single “Pop Out,” which peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. That same year, his first full-length album, “True 2 Myself” was released and debuted at number 5 on the US Billboard 200.
As of the time of publishing this article, Tjay is believed to be in a relationship with American model and influencer Lala Baptiste.
The couple reportedly started dating in 2020 after Lala appeared in the music video of Late American rapper Pop Smoke’s song “Mood Swings”. Further information about their relationship is scarce at this time.
However, Lil Tjay has been rumoured to have been in a relationship with American rappers Rubi Rose, Ice Spice, and Chinese Kitty.
He does not have a child yet.
