[3] Ty collaborated with musicians such as Shortee Blitz,[4] Drew Horley,[5] Tony Allen,[6] Roots Manuva[7] and De La Soul.
[8][9] He spent many years of his youth in the care of private foster parents in Jaywick, Essex—as reported in a 2019 Channel 4 News feature by Symeon Brown—[7][10] "so they could focus on work and study.
[9] His third album, Closer, was released in 2006,[14][15] and featured guest appearances from De La Soul, Speech, Bahamadia, Zion I, and others.
[15] He left the Big Dada label in 2007, saying "there's a time when you ... acknowledge that the people either have lost faith in what you're doing or are no longer interested in what you're doing" and experimented with spoken word for a period.
[17] In 2019, he was joined by Blak Twang and Rodney P to form Kingdem, which The New York Times called a "supergroup of British rap elders".