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Birth name | Kentrell DeSean Gaulden |
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Born | (1999-ten-xx) Oct xx, 1999 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. |
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Years agile | 2015–present |
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Website | youngboynba |
Kentrell DeSean Gaulden (born October twenty, 1999), known professionally as YoungBoy Never Broke Once again [one] [2] (also known as NBA YoungBoy or simply YoungBoy), is an American rapper. Between 2015 and 2017, he released 6 independent mixtapes and steadily garnered a cult following through his work. In belatedly 2017, Gaulden was signed to Atlantic Records. In Jan 2018, he released the unmarried "Exterior Today", which peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[iii] The song became the atomic number 82 single for his debut studio album Until Expiry Telephone call My Name (2018) which peaked at number seven on the US Billboard 200.
In October 2019, Gaulden released the unmarried "Bandit" (with Juice Wrld), which became his kickoff elevation-ten unmarried.[iv] A calendar week afterward, he released AI YoungBoy 2 (2019), which debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200.[5] In Apr 2020, he released 38 Infant 2, condign his 2d nautical chart-topping project on the Billboard 200. Later that year, Gaulden released his second studio album Top (2020), which followed suit as his third chart-topping project in less than a twelvemonth.[6] In September 2021, Sincerely, Kentrell (2021) was released from prison, topping the charts over again, making him the third creative person also 2Pac and Lil Wayne to accept a chart-topping album while incarcerated.[7] [8]
Despite his success, Gaulden'due south career has been marked by a long history of legal problems that began in 2016, and has released multiple projects during his incarcerations.[9] On October 26, 2021, he was released from jail on a $1.5 million bail after serving 7 months and was sentenced to pre-trial firm abort in Utah.[10]
Early life
Kentrell Gaulden was born on October 20, 1999, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He bankrupt his neck while wrestling as a toddler, the injury requiring a caput brace until the spine healed. The brace left permanent scars on his forehead.[xi] Gaulden was raised mainly by his maternal grandmother due to his male parent being sentenced to 55 years in prison.[eleven] He dropped out of high school in ninth grade and was arrested for robbery and sent to a detention center in Tallulah, Louisiana. While there, he began writing lyrics for his debut projection.[1]
After he was released from the detention center, Gaulden'south grandmother died of center failure and Gaulden moved in with his friend and fellow Baton Rouge rapper, NBA 3Three (also known every bit OG 3Three). The two and so used acts of misdeed to brainstorm to pay for studio time.[11]
Career
2015–2017: Career beginnings and AI YoungBoy
Gaulden offset began producing music with a microphone he bought from Walmart when he was xiv years old.[eleven] He released his get-go mixtape, Life Before Fame in 2015. A string of other mixtapes followed including Mind of a Menace, Heed of a Menace 2, and Before I Go. Gaulden attracted attending with his October 2016 mixtape, 38 Baby [1] [12] which featured fellow Billy Rouge natives, Boosie Badazz, Kevin Gates, and boyfriend rappers Stroke Tha Don and NBA 3Three.[13] A week later, Gaulden released some other mixtape titled Mind of a Menace 3 on November iv, 2016. Gaulden quick rising to popularity could also be attributed to his "song-for-vocal rap beefiness" with young man Baton Rouge rapper Scotty Cain in December 2015, in which songs from both rappers included death threats. Although no real violence e'er occurred betwixt the two Baton Rouge rappers, their feuding attracted a lot of attending.[12] [13]
In November 2016, Gaulden was arrested in Austin, Texas on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder in connectedness with an declared drive-by shooting.[12] [xiv] While in jail in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana,[12] Gaulden re-released his two mixtapes, Before I Become and Mind of a Menace 3. Gaulden was released from prison in May 2017 after taking a plea bargain and posting bond.[15] A calendar week after leaving prison, Gaulden released the single, "Untouchable".[xvi]
In July 2017, Gaulden released a video for his song, "41", that included cameos from notable artists including, Meek Mill, Young Thug, 21 Savage, Boosie Badazz, and Yo Gotti.[17] On August 3, 2017, he released his mixtape, AI YoungBoy which charted at 24 on the Billboard 200.[18] The single, "Untouchable", peaked at number 95 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[19] The second single from the project, "No Fume", peaked at number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100.[20]
2018–2019: Until Expiry Telephone call My Proper noun and AI YoungBoy 2
Gaulden released the single "Exterior Today" on January 6, 2018.[21] The song became Gaulden'south highest charting song, peaking at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100.[xx] He appear his debut studio album, Until Death Phone call My Name on January 11, shortly after signing a articulation venture bargain with Atlantic Records.[22] The album was released on April 27, 2018.[23] Despite existence arrested in February 2018, Gaulden promised a new mixtape.[24] Gaulden was released from prison house on March 15, and his adjacent mixtape Master The Day Of Sentence was released on May nineteen, 2018.[25] Throughout the summer of 2018, Gaulden released a series of 4 EPs, each containing four tracks. The first of which, 4Respect, was released on August 24, followed past 4Freedom, 4Loyalty and 4WhatImportant on August 30, September vi and 14, respectively. In conjunction with the final role being released, all four EPs were combined into a 16-rails compilation titled 4Respect 4Freedom 4Loyalty 4WhatImportant.[26] On September 7, Gaulden released his mixtape Decided, featuring a sole guest appearance from Trippie Redd.[27] On December xx, Gaulden released another mixtape, Realer, featuring guest appearances from Lil Baby and Plies.[28]
Past January 2019, Gaulden was on YouTube'south Top Music Artists list in the United States for the previous 101 weeks, which fabricated him the almost-watched musician beyond all genres.[29] This was mainly due in function to his consistency of releasing music regularly and exclusively on YouTube. He was also the 9th best selling artist on the 2019 Billboard Mid-Year Charts and was seventh in the top ten artists ranked past on-need audio streams without dropping a projection in the first vi months of 2019.[29]
Gaulden was sentenced to 14 months on house arrest following a probation violation earlier in 2019. Due to the house arrest, he was unable to record music from anywhere as well his house.[xxx] On September 25, 2019, Gaulden released the "aptly titled" single "House Abort Tingz".[31]
On Oct four, 2019, Gaulden released the song "Bandit", with rapper Juice Wrld, released as the terminal new song by Juice Wrld as a lead creative person before his death. The song reached number x on the The statesBillboard Hot 100, becoming NBA Youngboy'southward highest charting single.
On October x, 2019, Gaulden released his mixtape AI YoungBoy 2, and debuted at number one on the The states Billboard 200.[5] The mixtape is a sequel to his 2017 breakout AI Youngboy and features 18 songs, including the previously released song "Slime Mentality".[30] Gaulden was able to get his first number one anthology on the Billboard 200 because the album had accumulated 144.7 one thousand thousand on-demand audio streams during its first week, becoming one of the top ten biggest streaming debuts of 2019.[v]
2020-present: 38 Baby two, Top and Sincerely, Kentrell
In Feb 2020, Gaulden released his mixtape, Still Flexin, Still Steppin. It debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, becoming his 2nd-highest charting anthology after his 2019 number-one album AI YoungBoy two.[32] On April 24, 2020, Gaulden released his mixtape 38 Babe 2, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200.[33] On August twenty, 2020, Gaulden announced the release of his 2d studio album titled Top, which was released on September 11. It includes the Hot 100 charting singles "All In", "Kacey Talk", and "My Window" featuring Lil Wayne.[34] [35] The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and became his tertiary number-one album in under one year.
On November 11, 2020, Gaulden released his fourth solo project of 2020, the mixtape Until I Return. It was released exclusively on YouTube, and was fabricated available three days afterwards to streaming services with four additional songs. The mixtape has no guest features.[36] On November twenty, 2020, Gaulden released a collaborative project with Rich the Child, titled Nobody Safe.[37]
On September 24, 2021, Gaulden released his third studio anthology, Sincerely, Kentrell from prison. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 making him the third artist as well 2Pac and Lil Wayne to accept a number one album while incarcerated.[7] [eight]
Following his release from jail in belatedly Oct 2021, he released a number of singles commencement in November, including "Heart and Soul", "Alligator Walk", and "Blackball". The singles led upward to his collaborative mixtape with Birdman, From the Bayou, which released on December 10, 2021 afterwards being announced in March 2018.[38]
Gaulden released another mixtape, titled Colors, on January 21, 2022.[39] This mixtape garnered attention due to the singles released previously, in which he dissed rappers King Von and NLE Choppa on the tracks "Bring the Hook" and "Know Like I Know", respectively.[40]
Musical fashion
NBA YoungBoy has been noted for his melodic vocals and "signature aggressive punch and high energy".[41] He is known for his consistency in releasing music, with his work ethic described equally beingness of a "rapid burn down stride".[42] YoungBoy has released a total of twenty-6 studio albums, EP's, and mixtapes since 2015.
Legal issues
On November 28, 2016, U.S. Marshals arrested Gaulden earlier a concert in Austin, Texas, accusing him of jumping out of a vehicle and opening fire on a group of people on a South Baton Rouge street. Gaulden was charged with two counts of attempted murder.[43] [44] Gaulden was in jail until Baronial 2017 for attempted first degree murder.[45] Speaking on his incarceration, he said "I don't think they actually target, but if you got a name, they know who you is, you do something, they gonna come get you, and whoever y'all're with and any they do, y'all're accountable for it just because you got the biggest proper noun. That'due south how that shit go."[46] Facing two counts of attempted outset-degree murder, he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of aggravated assail with a firearm. On August 23, 2017, he was sentenced to a suspended 10-year prison house term and three years of active probation.[44]
Gaulden was arrested before a concert at The Moon nightclub in Tallahassee on February 25, 2018. Gaulden had a warrant in the State of Georgia for allegedly committing assault, weapons violations and kidnapping.[47] Hotel surveillance footage leaked presently post-obit his arrest showing Gaulden assaulting someone.[48] On March 15, 2018, he was released from prison house on $75,000 bond.[49]
While Gaulden was on probation, on May 12, 2019, he was involved in a shooting in Miami in which he returned fire after a shooter in a blackness Cadillac Escalade opened fire, injuring Gaulden's girlfriend and killing a eyewitness.[l] Though Gaulden'due south charges for the shooting itself were dismissed, he was constitute to be in the visitor of Ben Fields and Trulondrick "Boomer" Norman, which violated a special status of his probation; for this violation, the judge ordered him to spend 90 days in jail, banned him from performing for the next 14 months, and sentenced him to house arrest with electronic monitoring for the remainder of his probation.[51] On December 13, 2019, the judge officially terminated Gaulden'southward probation for two counts of attempted murder.[52] He was sentenced to a yr of probation on December eighteen, 2019 for the case that he had confronting his ex-girlfriend Jania.[53] He is currently living in Los Angeles.
On September 28, 2020, Gaulden was among 16 people arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on various charges, including distribution and manufacturing of drugs and possession of stolen firearms. His lawyer denied whatsoever guilt, stating "There was no indication that he had any guns or drugs on him at the time of the abort".[54] As news of his arrest surfaced, Gaulden deleted all of his social media, including his Instagram and Twitter accounts.[55]
On March 22, 2021, Gaulden was arrested by federal agents executing a federal warrant. Officers attempted to finish a vehicle with Gaulden in it to serve the warrant when Gaulden took off on human foot. After a search that involved using a K9, Gaulden was found and booked on federal criminal charges.[56] On October 26, 2021, he was released from jail on a $i.v million bail.[57]
Personal life
At 22 years old, Gaulden is the father of vii children with six dissimilar women.[58] [59] [sixty] 2 of his sons, Kayden and Kacey, appeared in the video for his single, "Kacey Talk".[34]
In a 2017 profile for The Fader, Gaulden named Kamron as 1 of his sons. Kamron was built-in in July 2016 to Starr Thigpen just weeks after Kayden.[61] However, a Dna test later confirmed that he was not the biological father.[62]
In Apr 2021, information technology was reported that he is expecting his 8th kid with a seventh woman, Jazlyn Mychelle.[63]
Discography
Studio albums
- Until Death Call My Name (2018)
- Meridian (2020)
- Sincerely, Kentrell (2021)
Awards and nominations
See likewise
• List of highest-certified music artists in the United States
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External links
- YoungBoy Never Broke Once more on SoundCloud
- YoungBoy Never Broke Once again on YouTube
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