Youngboy Never Broke Again and Danielle Bregoli
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| Nativity name | Kentrell DeSean Gaulden |
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| Born | (1999-x-20) October 20, 1999 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.Due south. |
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| Years active | 2015–present |
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| Children | 9 |
| Website | youngboynba |
Kentrell DeSean Gaulden (born October 20, 1999), known professionally equally YoungBoy Never Broke Again [1] [2] (as well known every bit NBA YoungBoy or simply YoungBoy), is an American rapper. Between 2015 and 2017, he released six independent mixtapes and steadily garnered a cult following through his piece of work. In late 2017, Gaulden was signed to Atlantic Records. In January 2018, he released the single "Outside Today", which peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 nautical chart.[three] The song became the lead single for his debut studio album Until Death Call My Proper 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 first superlative-ten single.[4] A calendar week later, he released AI YoungBoy 2 (2019), which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.[5] In April 2020, he released 38 Baby two, becoming his 2d chart-topping project on the Billboard 200. Later that twelvemonth, Gaulden released his second studio album Peak (2020), which followed arrange equally his tertiary nautical chart-topping project in less than a year.[half dozen] In September 2021, Sincerely, Kentrell (2021) was released from prison house, topping the charts once again, making him the third artist besides 2Pac and Lil Wayne to have a chart-topping anthology while incarcerated.[vii] [viii]
Despite his success, Gaulden'due south career has been marked past a long history of legal issues that began in 2016, and has released multiple projects during his incarcerations.[9] On October 26, 2021, he was released from jail on a $one.5 1000000 bond subsequently serving 7 months and was sentenced to pre-trial house arrest in Utah.[x]
Early life
Kentrell Gaulden was born on October 20, 1999, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He broke his neck while wrestling as a toddler, the injury requiring a head caryatid until the spine healed. The caryatid left permanent scars on his forehead.[xi] Gaulden was raised mainly by his maternal grandmother due to his father being sentenced to 55 years in prison.[eleven] He dropped out of loftier schoolhouse in ninth grade and was arrested for robbery and sent to a detention centre in Tallulah, Louisiana. While there, he began writing lyrics for his debut projection.[i]
Subsequently he was released from the detention middle, Gaulden's grandmother died of center failure and Gaulden moved in with his friend and beau Baton Rouge rapper, NBA 3Three (besides known as OG 3Three). The two and so used acts of criminality to begin to pay for studio time.[xi]
Career
2015–2017: Career ancestry and AI YoungBoy
Gaulden first began producing music with a microphone he bought from Walmart when he was 14 years quondam.[11] He released his first mixtape, Life Before Fame in 2015. A string of other mixtapes followed including Heed of a Menace, Mind of a Menace 2, and Earlier I Go. Gaulden attracted attention with his October 2016 mixtape, 38 Babe [1] [12] which featured young man Baton Rouge natives, Boosie Badazz, Kevin Gates, and fellow rappers Stroke Tha Don and NBA 3Three.[xiii] A week afterward, Gaulden released some other mixtape titled Listen of a Menace iii on November iv, 2016. Gaulden quick rising to popularity could besides exist attributed to his "song-for-vocal rap beef" with fellow Baton Rouge rapper Scotty Cain in December 2015, in which songs from both rappers included decease threats. Although no real violence always occurred between 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 outset-degree murder in connection with an alleged drive-by shooting.[12] [14] While in jail in Due east Billy Rouge Parish, Louisiana,[12] Gaulden re-released his two mixtapes, Earlier I Go and Heed of a Menace iii. Gaulden was released from prison in May 2017 after taking a plea deal and posting bail.[15] A week later on leaving prison, Gaulden released the single, "Untouchable".[16]
In July 2017, Gaulden released a video for his vocal, "41", that included cameos from notable artists including, Meek Mill, Young Thug, 21 Savage, Boosie Badazz, and Yo Gotti.[17] On August three, 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 Smoke", peaked at number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100.[20]
2018–2019: Until Death Call My Name and AI YoungBoy 2
Gaulden released the unmarried "Outside Today" on January 6, 2018.[21] The vocal became Gaulden'due south highest charting song, peaking at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100.[20] He announced his debut studio anthology, Until Death Call My Name on January eleven, soon after signing a joint venture bargain with Atlantic Records.[22] The album was released on April 27, 2018.[23] Despite being arrested in February 2018, Gaulden promised a new mixtape.[24] Gaulden was released from prison on March 15, and his adjacent mixtape Master The Day Of Judgement was released on May 19, 2018.[25] Throughout the summer of 2018, Gaulden released a series of 4 EPs, each containing iv tracks. The offset of which, 4Respect, was released on Baronial 24, followed past 4Freedom, 4Loyalty and 4WhatImportant on Baronial xxx, September 6 and fourteen, respectively. In conjunction with the final part being released, all four EPs were combined into a sixteen-runway 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 Dec 20, Gaulden released another mixtape, Realer, featuring invitee appearances from Lil Baby and Plies.[28]
Past January 2019, Gaulden was on YouTube'southward Top Music Artists list in the United States for the previous 101 weeks, which made him the nigh-watched musician across all genres.[29] This was mainly due in part to his consistency of releasing music regularly and exclusively on YouTube. He was also the 9th all-time selling artist on the 2019 Billboard Mid-Year Charts and was seventh in the top 10 artists ranked past on-demand sound streams without dropping a project in the offset six months of 2019.[29]
Gaulden was sentenced to 14 months on house abort following a probation violation before in 2019. Due to the house abort, he was unable to record music from anywhere as well his business firm.[30] On September 25, 2019, Gaulden released the "aptly titled" single "House Arrest Tingz".[31]
On October four, 2019, Gaulden released the song "Brigand", with rapper Juice Wrld, released as the final new song by Juice Wrld equally a pb artist before his death. The song reached number 10 on the The statesBillboard Hot 100, condign NBA Youngboy's highest charting unmarried.
On Oct 10, 2019, Gaulden released his mixtape AI YoungBoy ii, and debuted at number one on the US 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".[thirty] Gaulden was able to become his first number i album on the Billboard 200 because the album had accumulated 144.7 one thousand thousand on-need audio streams during its first calendar week, becoming one of the top ten biggest streaming debuts of 2019.[5]
2020-present: 38 Baby 2, Height and Sincerely, Kentrell
In February 2020, Gaulden released his mixtape, Notwithstanding Flexin, Still Steppin. It debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, becoming his second-highest charting album after his 2019 number-one anthology AI YoungBoy 2.[32] On April 24, 2020, Gaulden released his mixtape 38 Infant 2, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200.[33] On August xx, 2020, Gaulden appear the release of his second 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 anthology debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and became his third number-ane album in nether 1 year.
On November xi, 2020, Gaulden released his fourth solo project of 2020, the mixtape Until I Return. It was released exclusively on YouTube, and was made bachelor three days later to streaming services with 4 boosted songs. The mixtape has no guest features.[36] On November 20, 2020, Gaulden released a collaborative project with Rich the Kid, titled Nobody Safe.[37]
On September 24, 2021, Gaulden released his tertiary studio album, Sincerely, Kentrell from prison house. The anthology debuted at number ane on the Billboard 200 making him the third artist besides 2Pac and Lil Wayne to have a number 1 album while incarcerated.[vii] [8]
Post-obit his release from jail in late October 2021, he released a number of singles beginning in Nov, including "Eye and Soul", "Alligator Walk", and "Blackball". The singles led upwards to his collaborative mixtape with Birdman, From the Bayou, which released on Dec 10, 2021 after beingness announced in March 2018.[38]
Gaulden released some other mixtape, titled Colors, on January 21, 2022.[39] This mixtape garnered attention due to the singles released previously, in which he dissed rappers Rex Von and NLE Choppa on the tracks "Bring the Hook" and "Know Like I Know", respectively.[xl]
Musical mode
NBA YoungBoy has been noted for his melodic vocals and "signature ambitious punch and high energy".[41] He is known for his consistency in releasing music, with his work ethic described as being of a "rapid fire step".[42] YoungBoy has released a full of twenty-6 studio albums, EP's, and mixtapes since 2015.
Legal issues
On November 28, 2016, U.Due south. Marshals arrested Gaulden before a concert in Austin, Texas, accusing him of jumping out of a vehicle and opening burn on a group of people on a S Baton Rouge street. Gaulden was charged with ii counts of attempted murder.[43] [44] Gaulden was in jail until August 2017 for attempted first caste murder.[45] Speaking on his incarceration, he said "I don't recall they actually target, only if y'all got a name, they know who you is, you exercise something, they gonna come get you, and whoever you're with and whatsoever they do, y'all're accountable for it just because you got the biggest name. That's how that shit become."[46] Facing two counts of attempted get-go-caste murder, he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of aggravated assault with a firearm. On August 23, 2017, he was sentenced to a suspended 10-year prison house term and 3 years of agile probation.[44]
Gaulden was arrested before a concert at The Moon nightclub in Tallahassee on Feb 25, 2018. Gaulden had a warrant in the State of Georgia for allegedly committing assault, weapons violations and kidnapping.[47] Hotel surveillance footage leaked shortly following his arrest showing Gaulden assaulting someone.[48] On March 15, 2018, he was released from prison on $75,000 bail.[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 black Cadillac Escalade opened fire, injuring Gaulden's girlfriend and killing a eyewitness.[50] Though Gaulden's charges for the shooting itself were dismissed, he was found to be in the company of Ben Fields and Trulondrick "Boomer" Norman, which violated a special status of his probation; for this violation, the guess ordered him to spend 90 days in jail, banned him from performing for the next xiv months, and sentenced him to house arrest with electronic monitoring for the remainder of his probation.[51] On December thirteen, 2019, the judge officially terminated Gaulden's probation for two counts of attempted murder.[52] He was sentenced to a twelvemonth of probation on December 18, 2019 for the case that he had against 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 diverse 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 fourth dimension of the arrest".[54] As news of his abort 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 stop a vehicle with Gaulden in it to serve the warrant when Gaulden took off on pes. Later on a search that involved using a K9, Gaulden was found and booked on federal criminal charges.[56] On Oct 26, 2021, he was released from jail on a $1.5 million bail.[57]
Personal life
At 22 years old, Gaulden is the begetter of seven children with six different women.[58] [59] [60] 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 one of his sons. Kamron was born in July 2016 to Starr Thigpen but weeks later Kayden.[61] However, a Deoxyribonucleic acid test later confirmed that he was not the biological begetter.[62]
In Apr 2021, it was reported that he is expecting his eighth child with a seventh woman, Jazlyn Mychelle.[63]
Discography
Studio albums
- Until Decease Call My Proper name (2018)
- Acme (2020)
- Sincerely, Kentrell (2021)
Awards and nominations
See also
• List of highest-certified music artists in the U.s.a.
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External links
- YoungBoy Never Broke Again on SoundCloud
- YoungBoy Never Broke Again on YouTube
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