Fly Ty on instinct, second chances and running a label inside Epic

Vocal Media's interview with Fly Ty is about how he signs. He told the writer he trusts instinct over data, and that he had recently signed two artists who had never released a commercial record, on potential alone.

The conversation did not skip the past. Fly Ty has spent close to half his life incarcerated, and he describes the label as the thing he built out of that time. His five-year goal, as stated in the piece, is to run a major label outright while growing the community programmes he funds.

The interview closes on the mentorship side of the job: opening doors for young executives and for young people from neighbourhoods like the one he grew up in, which he counts as part of the label's output alongside the records.