Tee Grizzley

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}} }} Terry Sanchez Wallace Jr. (born March 23, 1994), known professionally as Tee Grizzley, is an American rapper.

Wallace was born on March 23, 1994, in Detroit, Michigan, and was raised by his grandmother near the intersection of Joy Rd. & Southfield Freeway in the Warrendale neighborhood due to his mother and father constantly being in and out of prison.

In middle school he began developing an interest in rap music and eventually formed the musical group All Stars Ball Hard along with three of his friends, JR, Po, and Lee.

Wallace took the moniker of ASBH Tee, and they began uploading their songs to YouTube.

He first began posting music online in 2011; following a two year prison sentence, he released the song "First Day Out" in 2016.

The song quickly gained viral status—earning two million views on YouTube in under three weeks—due to a social media challenge enacted by basketball player LeBron James, when it was soon re-released commercially by 300 Entertainment and reached the top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100.

In 2011, his mother was sentenced to 20 years in prison for drug trafficking and released in late 2020.

His father was murdered in 2012.

Wallace was the first member of his family to attend college in generations.

He attended Michigan State University to study finance and accounting.

After undergoing financial difficulties, he and a friend of his began to burglarize other students' dormitories.

They stole $20,000 worth of electronics and money from other students in February 2014.

On February 27, Wallace and Jeremy Ford were caught but released pending investigation.

Wallace went on the run, and fled to Kentucky.

On July 1, 2014, Wallace was one of three people arrested following an attempted robbery at a jewelry store in Lexington, Kentucky.

Wallace was sentenced to nine months for the robbery, and, while already serving that sentence, he was sentenced to 18 months to 15 years for the Michigan State robberies in September 2015.

On October 16, 2016, he was released from prison in Michigan.

While in prison, Wallace began to take rapping more seriously and wrote the entirety of his debut mixtape.

After being released from prison, where he took the name Tee Grizzley, he released his debut single "First Day Out" in November 2016.

The music video, posted to YouTube, gained over 2 million views in less than three weeks.

It was followed by his debut mixtape My Moment (2017), as well as his follow up single "From the D to the A" (featuring Lil Yachty), which received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

He later signed to 300 Entertainment & Atlantic Records in 2017.

He released his second single, "Second Day Out", in February 2017.

His third single "From the D to the A" featuring Lil Yachty was released in March 2017.

He released "No Effort" and its accompanying music video on March 31, 2017.

His debut mixtape My Moment was released on April 7, 2017.

Grizzley said that his record sales tripled after his song was featured in a LeBron James Instagram post.

Grizzley's song "Teetroit" was released on July 28, 2017.

The single "Beef", featuring Meek Mill, was released on September 1, 2017.

He received two 2017 BET Hip Hop Award nominations for Best New Hip-Hop Artist and Best Mixtape for My Moment.

He released the song "Win" on October 6, 2017.

He released the song "What Yo City Like" with rapper Lil Durk on November 30, 2017, as the lead single for Bloodas.

The two then released the joint mixtape Bloodas on December 8, 2017.

His collaborative mixtape with Lil Durk—Bloodas (2018)—preceded the release of his debut studio album, Activated (2018).

He released the single "Colors" on February 2, 2018.

The album peaked at number ten on the Billboard 200, while his second and third albums, the Timbaland-produced Scriptures (2019) and Built for Whatever (2021) peaked at numbers 20 and 15.

His fourth album, Tee's Coney Island (2023) marked a period of commercial resurgence as its lead single, "IDGAF" (featuring Chris Brown and Mariah the Scientist) entered the Billboard Hot 100 once more.