Tyga
Tyga is an actor, born 1989.
The music is the career; the screen credits are the overflow. Micheal Ray Stevenson signed with Lil Wayne's Young Money in 2008, and Careless World: Rise of the Last King in 2012 delivered a number four album, a platinum certification and a Hot 100 top ten in Rack City. The records after it drew less. Hotel California in 2013 and the collaborative album with Chris Brown in 2015 both met a cooler response than the one before them.
On screen he mostly plays a version of himself, and the credits are refreshingly honest about it. Himself in Boo! A Madea Halloween and November Rule, Self on Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Kocktails With Khloe, an MC in Barbershop: The Next Cut. That is the standard route for a rapper with a large public profile and it asks almost nothing of the performer.
Dope is the exception and the reason to take the acting seriously at all. As De'Andre he works inside an ensemble of trained actors, in a film with real comic timing, and he holds his position in it, which is more than most crossover attempts manage. Salvatore in Once Upon a Time in Venice and Jamal on Scream: The TV Series follow the same idea at smaller scale. Acting was never the main event here, and nothing in the record suggests he needed it to be.
Movies (6)
TV (3)
Music (1)
Where to start with Tyga
Dope is the only film here that asks him to act rather than appear, and it is also simply the best film on the list: a fast, funny high-school picture with a genuinely good ensemble. Start there.
Barbershop: The Next Cut is the next most watchable, and it uses him the way the franchise uses most guests, as texture in a crowded room. Once Upon a Time in Venice is a shaggy crime comedy where he gets a proper named part, and Scream: The TV Series is the television equivalent, a recurring role in a show with a large cast.
Everything else is the public persona on tour. Mac & Devin Go to High School is a stoner comedy built around rappers playing near-versions of themselves, and Boo! A Madea Halloween credits him as Himself, which is the honest description of most of this filmography.