YG | Biografie

 

(February 4, 2022 – New York, NY) Multi-platinum Bompton-based rapper YG, who has now surpassed the prestigious 10 billion career streams and over 2 billion YouTube views, drops his brand-new single + video “Scared Money,” featuring J Cole & Moneybagg Yo available now via Def Jam Recordings. “Scared Money” is the first new music from forthcoming sixth studio album PRAY FOR ME.

  

The “Scared Money” video will make its broadcast premiere on BET Jams and on the Viacom Times Square billboards.

 

My Life 4Hunnid (October 2020) which debuted Top 5 on Billboard’s 200 albums, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and Top Rap Albums charts, spun off five breakout singles inclusing: “FTP” which was released during the height of the Black Lives Matter protests and became a social justice anthem for the movement.

 

YG’s previous long player, the pre-pandemic 4Real 4Real (May 2019), marked his fourth consecutive Top 10 debut on the Billboard 200 album chart.  YG introduced the album on his first appearance at NBC Universal’s Ellen, with a live performance of his RIAA double-platinum single “Go Loko” with collaborators Tyga & Jon Z.  The iconic mariachi-flavored “Go Loko” video (also with Tyga & Jon Z) boasts over 203 million YouTube views.

 

The success of 4Real 4Real built on the extraordinary year that YG enjoyed in 2018, centering on his RIAA gold Top 5 album, Stay Dangerous (August). The LP was buoyed by “Big Bank” featur­ing Nicki Minaj, 2 Chainz and Big Sean, one of the biggest singles of YG’s career, a 4x-platinum #1 smash with over 213 million YouTube views to date.

 

Stay Dangerous followed-up YG’s critically acclaimed Still Brazy (2016), hailed by the New York Times as “an artisanal, proletarian Los Angeles gangster rap record.”  My Krazy Life (2014), his Def Jam debut was nominated as “Rap Album Of The Year Contender” by MTV News. It contained the Top 5 Rap phenom “My N***a” featuring Jeezy and Rich Homie Quan (4x-platinum with over 346 million YouTube views); the “My N***a” Remix with Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Rich Homie Quan, and Meek Mill has netted over 174 million YouTube views to date.  Also on the debut was the landmark Top 5 double-platinum “Who Do You Love?” featuring Drake (with over 193 million YouTube views).

 

 

ABOUT YG:

Since emerging in 2009, YG has projected the voice of the streets into the mainstream and ultimately left his mark as a rapper, actor, entrepreneur, designer, and philanthropist. The Compton native has surpassed 10 billion global streams, over a dozen multi-platinum, platinum and gold certifications, and countless honors. He’s the rare maverick who can stand arm-in-arm with protestors one day, appear on-screen next to an Academy® Award winner the next day, and preside over a fashion runway on another day. He has landed four consecutive Top 10 debuts on the Billboard Top 200. Among numerous anthems with social implications, Billboard christened the politically charged “FDT” [feat. Nipsey Hussle] one of the “Songs That Defined the Decade.” In 2020, he fought back again with the anti-racist screed “FTP” and its music video of which Variety claimed, “If there’s a music video that captures the Black Lives Matter demonstra­tions of June 2020, it’s YG’s ‘FTP’.” He accompanied the reunited Public Enemy and an all-star cast of collaborators for a show-stopping performance of “Fight The Power” at the BET Awards in 2020. “FTP” was one of five breakout single + video releases in 2020–2021 from YG’s critically acclaimed fifth studio album, My Life 4Hunnid (October 2020) which also included “Laugh Now, Kry Later!”; “SWAG,” “Equinox” featuring Day Sulan, and “Out On Bail.”

 

Simultaneously, YG remains a pillar of the community. He donated $100,000 worth of food from his restaurant Fishbone Seafood in honor of Juneteenth. Additionally, he founded the nonprofit 4Hundred Waze. Among various initiatives, the nonprofit provided $10,000 in PPE to Los Angeles families hit hardest by the COVID−19 pandemic residing in Emergency Crisis Housing. Plus, he built a platform for buzzing artists such as Day Sulan with his 4HUNNID label in partnership with Epic Records. The 4HUNNID brand also comprises a clothing line of the same name co-owned by YG and creative director Gavin Mathieu. Infiltrating high fashion and occupying space in retailers such as Zumiez, and more, the line amplifies his impact. Not to mention, the accomplished actor graced the big screen in White Boy Rick with Academy® Award winner Matthew McConaughey.