27-03-2014, 18:06
enters the Billboard chart this week at #2
Spotify online listen
3.5 of 5.0 from allmusic
debut album and it comes in at #2
how can you possibly explain that?
Bio - from allmusic
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Like so many rappers after the turn of the millennium, Los Angeles-based rap artist Keenon Jackson (otherwise known as Y.G. or Young Gangsta)
got his start by accumulating a wide Internet following after leaking "She a Model" and "Aim Me" to the Web. The success of these songs earned
him a bid from Def Jam, and he signed to the pioneering hip-hop label in 2009. Several mixtapes followed, including 2010's The Real 4Fingaz and
2011's Just Re'd Up, each of which boasted a charting Billboard single. He also became a popular MC, guesting on tracks by Freddie Gibbs, Travis
Porter, E-40, Nipsey Hussle, and Young Jeezy. In 2013, it was announced that the latter would be producing his debut studio full-length, Im 4rm
Bompton, which was slated for a summer release that year. The planned album never appeared, as Y.G. signed with Def Jam and entered the studio
with a different producer, DJ Mustard. The album My Krazy Life finally landed in 2014, with Drake, Rich Homie Quan, and ScHoolboy Q among its
guests.
Album Review - from allmusic
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Love it or loathe it, unashamed gangsta rap exists, and in 2014, it thrives with folks like Chief Keef and other Chicago-based thugs ruling the
youth side of the genre, while Southern smokers take up the rest of the chart positions, including plenty of freaky hits for Gucci Mane and
glitzy baller smashes coming from the Miami-based Don Rick Ross. That leaves gangsta rap's birthplace, the West Coast, with little
representation, but the 24-year-old -- and sounding much younger -- Compton kid known as Y.G. wants to bring all the gold home to the land of
Cube, Snoop, Dre, and Eazy-E. Besides that, on his Def Jam debut he's got that smartass killer attitude of the N.W.A. crew in their early days,
combined with a little of that Geto Boys' ramshackle kamikaze style, although they were, obviously, born in Houston. My Krazy Life is an
excitement-packed journey back to the days when the hardest gun talk and most thrilling, plus provocative, put-downs came from the underbelly of
the Golden State, but as much as the album revels in murder, misogyny, and mayhem, Y.G. has got that "music as a way out" thing going into
overdrive. He's making sure, as his furious Momma yells during the intro, he's not winding up in jail "like your damn Daddy!", and becomes a
"people person" the only way he knows how, by enlisting that Parliamentary funk during the party starting "Do It to Ya" which comes with an "Ass
up!" and etc. chorus that can't be repeated in mixed company. The Breaking Bad cast would even balk at the drug consumption quest Y.G. remarks
on during "Really Be (Smokin N Drinkin')" featuring Kendrick Lamar, and yet his rattling through street slang and drug combos is the inspired
stuff of early E-40 or Too Short without the relaxed pimp stance. Instead, Y.G. is an aggressive playa, and the slow and supposedly "sweet"
numbers like "Me & My Bitch" cause speed bumps on an otherwise alive album, but the superstars like Kendrick, Drake, and Schoolboy Q are
shuffled in smoothly, and when Rich Homie Quan and Jeezy come through on the great "My Hitta" the chemistry is perfect. The album's secret
weapon is DJ Mustard who offers numerous productions that are pop like Young Money and bottom-heavy with G-Funk as the blueprint. Think of 50
Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' delivered by an inspired rapper in a post-Nicki Minaj world and you're close to the thrill of this inspired debut.
edited clip
you can fill in the blanks if you want:
[video=youtube;ZqHrAfFq7lM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqHrAfFq7lM[/video]
Track Listing
1. The Put On (Intro)
2. BPT
3. I Just Wanna Party
4. Left, Right
5. Bicken Back Being Bool
6. Meet The Flockers
7. My Nigga
8. Do It To Ya
9. Me & My Bitch
10. Who Do You Love?
11. Really Be (Smokin N Drinkin)
12. I AM
13. Thank God (Interlude)
14. Sorry Momma
Spotify online listen
3.5 of 5.0 from allmusic
debut album and it comes in at #2
how can you possibly explain that?
Bio - from allmusic
Like so many rappers after the turn of the millennium, Los Angeles-based rap artist Keenon Jackson (otherwise known as Y.G. or Young Gangsta)
got his start by accumulating a wide Internet following after leaking "She a Model" and "Aim Me" to the Web. The success of these songs earned
him a bid from Def Jam, and he signed to the pioneering hip-hop label in 2009. Several mixtapes followed, including 2010's The Real 4Fingaz and
2011's Just Re'd Up, each of which boasted a charting Billboard single. He also became a popular MC, guesting on tracks by Freddie Gibbs, Travis
Porter, E-40, Nipsey Hussle, and Young Jeezy. In 2013, it was announced that the latter would be producing his debut studio full-length, Im 4rm
Bompton, which was slated for a summer release that year. The planned album never appeared, as Y.G. signed with Def Jam and entered the studio
with a different producer, DJ Mustard. The album My Krazy Life finally landed in 2014, with Drake, Rich Homie Quan, and ScHoolboy Q among its
guests.
Album Review - from allmusic
Love it or loathe it, unashamed gangsta rap exists, and in 2014, it thrives with folks like Chief Keef and other Chicago-based thugs ruling the
youth side of the genre, while Southern smokers take up the rest of the chart positions, including plenty of freaky hits for Gucci Mane and
glitzy baller smashes coming from the Miami-based Don Rick Ross. That leaves gangsta rap's birthplace, the West Coast, with little
representation, but the 24-year-old -- and sounding much younger -- Compton kid known as Y.G. wants to bring all the gold home to the land of
Cube, Snoop, Dre, and Eazy-E. Besides that, on his Def Jam debut he's got that smartass killer attitude of the N.W.A. crew in their early days,
combined with a little of that Geto Boys' ramshackle kamikaze style, although they were, obviously, born in Houston. My Krazy Life is an
excitement-packed journey back to the days when the hardest gun talk and most thrilling, plus provocative, put-downs came from the underbelly of
the Golden State, but as much as the album revels in murder, misogyny, and mayhem, Y.G. has got that "music as a way out" thing going into
overdrive. He's making sure, as his furious Momma yells during the intro, he's not winding up in jail "like your damn Daddy!", and becomes a
"people person" the only way he knows how, by enlisting that Parliamentary funk during the party starting "Do It to Ya" which comes with an "Ass
up!" and etc. chorus that can't be repeated in mixed company. The Breaking Bad cast would even balk at the drug consumption quest Y.G. remarks
on during "Really Be (Smokin N Drinkin')" featuring Kendrick Lamar, and yet his rattling through street slang and drug combos is the inspired
stuff of early E-40 or Too Short without the relaxed pimp stance. Instead, Y.G. is an aggressive playa, and the slow and supposedly "sweet"
numbers like "Me & My Bitch" cause speed bumps on an otherwise alive album, but the superstars like Kendrick, Drake, and Schoolboy Q are
shuffled in smoothly, and when Rich Homie Quan and Jeezy come through on the great "My Hitta" the chemistry is perfect. The album's secret
weapon is DJ Mustard who offers numerous productions that are pop like Young Money and bottom-heavy with G-Funk as the blueprint. Think of 50
Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' delivered by an inspired rapper in a post-Nicki Minaj world and you're close to the thrill of this inspired debut.
edited clip
you can fill in the blanks if you want:
[video=youtube;ZqHrAfFq7lM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqHrAfFq7lM[/video]
Track Listing
1. The Put On (Intro)
2. BPT
3. I Just Wanna Party
4. Left, Right
5. Bicken Back Being Bool
6. Meet The Flockers
7. My Nigga
8. Do It To Ya
9. Me & My Bitch
10. Who Do You Love?
11. Really Be (Smokin N Drinkin)
12. I AM
13. Thank God (Interlude)
14. Sorry Momma