Member Since: 28/09/2007
Band Members:Name: Tawrence E Griffin Sr.
Birthday: July 12
Sex: Male
Height: 6’3â€
Stage Name: Tu-Tu (A.K.A Tu Daddy)
First of all, Dallas, Texas is where I was born and raised by my grandparents Mr. & Mrs. Griffin. I grew up with not all of the best things, but I had enough. At the tender age of eight, I had grown to love music; it just seemed to be in my heart. Of all the different types of music, rap became my favorite. I recall being in my room with my karaoke, hearing my mother say, “Boy turn that mess down! I have to go to work in the morning!†I turned it down, but I never turned it off. I had to keep writing, I had to keep going, I had dreams of being a star! By the time I reached the ninth grade, I was free-styling about everything in front of me. I wasn’t just messing around with it, I was representing, giving friends something to talk about after school.
The ninth grade is where I met my homey Thomas Henderson (A.K.A Sleeptyte) who also loved to rap, and somehow we became an eager group called the 40oz Boyz. We really didn’t know much about the business and thought that overnight we would become successful. We had never seen a studio, and did n’t care about being rich or getting paid, we just wanted to be heard. The first show we had was at the Venue Showroom, where we opened up for a group known as Nemisis. We continued to pump up the crowd at various places performing in front of groups like U.G.K., Eightball, and M.J.G., Mystikal, Scarface and many other well-known artists.
Things were going good, Thomas (Sleeptyte) went off to school for a year, and I continued to work in Dallas. During this time I met a good friend named Daryl Daniels, (A.K.A. Double D). His tight music production brought flava’ out of me that I didn’t know I had. By the time Sleeptyte came back from school, I had learned much about the industry. I introduced him to Double D and the three of us decided to drop a compilation called “Spliftight ‘99and Beyondâ€. We changed out name toTuTyte, which speaks for itself. We got what cha want, we got what cha need, so what would u like!