Hailing from the north side of Beaumont—known to locals as Big Money Texas—26-year-old Tobias Traylor wants to make sure the world knows him as someone “real,” authentic. But in the Magnolia neighborhood, the Army veteran is still known as the tattooed dread-head who lives with his grandmother.
In his music, TTBBY (pronounced “tee-tee baby”) gushes odes to his hometown that ride over a mixture of heavy trap bass pulses, inflected with both the old-school sticky syrup sound of Houston rap and an East Texas drawl.
Last month, TTBBY dropped “Shannon Sharpe,” a hollow trap beat paired with references to Hurricane Rita, Kool Aid, and trapping (slang for dealing drugs). TTBBY promised fans via Twitter that he’ll be dropping a song every month throughout the year.
