Songwriter

T-Minus

Tyler Williams

Brampton, Ontario

T-Minus — Tyler Williams — is a Brampton, Ontario producer who has been one of Drake's most consistent melodic-rap writing partners since the early Take Care era. He first connected with Drake through Toronto industry channels around the Thank Me Later period and has placed beats and writing credits on Take Care, Nothing Was the Same, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Views, More Life, Scorpion, and Certified Lover Boy. Signature contributions include "HYFR," "The Motto," "0 to 100 / The Catch Up," "U with Me?," and major Views and CLB cuts — several of which charted in the global top ten. His writing tends toward bright pluck melodies, crisp 808 patterns, and song forms that leave wide pockets for Drake's cadence to drive the track. Beyond Drake he has co-produced and co-written hits for Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, and DJ Khaled, and he is a frequent OVO collaborator with Boi-1da and Vinylz on multi-writer credits. T-Minus operates more quietly than some peers, rarely fronting public personas, but his name shows up on a strikingly high share of the catalog's biggest singles, which makes him one of the load-bearing writers behind Drake's pop-rap era.