Destined 2 Win is Bronx, New York rapper Lil Tjay’s sophomore studio album, serving as the follow-up to his October 2019 debut, True 2 Myself. While Tjay often focuses on his struggles with love throughout the project, he also raps about his come-up and his awaiting successes, just as the title would suggest.
The project hosts a multitude of collaborations, seeing Tjay link up with familiar collaborators of Polo G and Fivio Foreign, while collaborating with the likes of 6LACK, Saweetie, Tyga, Toosii, Offset, and Moneybagg Yo all for the first time.
On March 24, Tjay confirmed the project’s release date of April 2 along with its cover art and tracklist. The project’s three final tracks serve as bonuses, tracks that were released as singles in late 2020, while its two collaborative singles—“Calling My Phone” and “Headshot”—hold standard placement on the tracklist.
In an October 2020 tweet, Lil Tjay stated :
Spent the last couple months pouring my heart out into this album. It’s finally done!!🔥😤 I’m extremely excited about this project hopefully it helps ya to get to know me a lil better, I decided to opened up about a lot.
And he furthered within a reply on the same day:
I want y’all to always know I love [an]d appreciate ya dis forever nfs.🤞🏽💙 Truth is I’ve been dealing with alot of personal things in my life some I’ll explain thru music some I just can’t but I want y’all to know I won’t ever fold like that again!!
Yes! One was released on March 29, 2021.
Via a tweet on March 29, 2021, Lil Tjay expanded on his reasoning behind the album title:
I named the album Destined 2 Win cause I always felt like something in me was meant to be great. Even when sh*t tried stop me it never did and I kept getting up !!
Yes! It was released on April 1, 2021, one day prior to the release of the album:
On January 10, 2023, Destined 2 Win was certified platinum by the RIAA.