Flyte Tyme was a funk band from Minneapolis that launched the careers of vocalists Cynthia Johnson, Alexander O'Neal and producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.

Flyte Tyme began as a Minneapolis funk/R&B unit, taking its name from "Flight Time", a 1973 Donald Byrd song.

In 1981, Flyte Tyme became the Time when Prince added two members of another local group, Enterprise, to the act; his childhood friend and drummer Morris Day and guitarist Jesse Johnson.

Jam & Lewis left the Time in 1983 to pursue an independent writing and producing career, resurrecting the Flyte Tyme name for their production company and later, their second record label.

Two unreleased songs, "I Got You on My Mind" and "It's the Things That You Do", were released in 2013 on the Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound compilation.