NBA Youngboy New Album with DaBaby “Better Than You” is out now.
NBA Youngboy is on the roll since he has come out of prison last the October. There is a flurry of NBA Youngboy album releases and all have been taking the Billboards charts by the storm.
Today only NBA Youngboy’s new album was released which was a joint effort with Dababy. DaBaby and YoungBoy Never Broke Again have collaborated on their new release, “Better Than You.” The 12-track record was initially revealed at the end of last month and is led by their debut song, “Neighborhood Superstar,” which has already earned over 2 million views on YouTube in only two days. Baby’s latest album is his first since his 2020 EP, “My Brother’s Keeper,” which he dedicated to his brother, who committed himself two years earlier.
YB has been hyping his forthcoming mixtape, Realer 2, and recently released his Colors mixtape. The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums list. He has also been embroiled in a spat with Lil Durk, releasing his diss single “I Hate YoungBoy,” in which the rapper takes aim at a number of other artists and media outlets, including Boosie, Gucci Mane, Apple Music, and others.
NBA YoungBoy, who is presently incarcerated in Utah awaiting his trial on federal gun charges, released his most recent mixtape Colors in January.
The Baton Rouge rapper had a fair share of ups and downs in his life but his albums haven’t. Whenever the NBA Youngboy album is released it shoots to the pinnacle. His new albums have taken grit with the superstars like Drake. With a title based on YoungBoy’s real name, Kentrell Gaulden, “Sincerely, Kentrell” just beat off superstar rapper Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy,” which had topped the Billboard chart. In his small career, NBA Youngboy has a total of 4 albums No.1 opening on the billboard.
NBA Youngboy began making music when he was fourteen years old, using a microphone he purchased from Walmart. His debut mixtape, “Life Before Fame,” was released in 2015. “Mind of a Menace,” “Mind of a Menace 2,” and “Before I Go” were among the mixtapes that followed. He gained notoriety with his mixtape 38 Baby in October 2016, which included fellow Baton Rouge locals Boosie Badazz and Kevin Gates, as well as other rappers Stroke Tha Don and NBA 3Three.
NBA YoungBoy is known for his “signature forceful punch and tremendous intensity,” as well as his melodious voice. His work ethic has been defined as “rapid-fire speed,” and he is noted for his constancy in delivering songs. Since 2015, YoungBoy has released twenty-six studio albums, EPs, and mixtapes.
In this article, we will discuss some of the best NBA Youngboy albums that are masterpieces and have taken the billboard by storm:
AI YoungBoy 2: “AI YoungBoy 2” was the first number 1 billboard NBA Youngboy album. AI YoungBoy 2 is YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s fourteenth mixtape. Never Broke Again and Atlantic Records released it on October 11, 2019. The tracks “Self Control” and “Slime Mentality” helped promote this mixtape.
The mixtape debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 list in the United States, selling 110,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, making it YoungBoy’s first number-one album in the United States. In September 2020, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the mixtape platinum.
Just a week before his album, NBA Younboy released the track “Bandit” (featuring Juice Wrld), which became his first top-ten single.
There are 18 tracks on the tracklist, including the single “Slime Mentality,” which was released on September 1, 2019. Rappers Quando Rondo and NoCap make cameo performances. The mixtape is his first commercial release since being released from jail in August of this year.
Still Flexin, Still Steppin: This NBA Youngboy album came just after “AI Youngboy 2” & debuted No.2 on the billboard. The album was released by Atlantic Record from which NBA Youngboy has rift now. He called out to Atlantic Record for black labelling him at the records.
With 91,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, the mixtape debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, becoming YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s second-highest selling album following his 2019 number-one album AI YoungBoy 2. In October 2020, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the mixtape as gold. The previously released singles “Bad Bad,” “Knocked Off,” and “Fine by Time” are included on the mixtape.
38 Baby 2: Another mixtape was released NBA Younboy which debut at No. 1 on the billboard, with the album selling 67,000 album-equivalent copies. It included Sherhonda Gaulden, YoungBoy’s mother, and rapper DaBaby.
This was Youngboy’s second number one debut in the United States and his fourth top-ten album. During the tracking week, this mixtape received a total of 96.9 million on-demand streaming of the set’s tracks.
Until Death Call My Name: This was the first NBA Youngboy album. In its first week, “Until Death Call My Name” debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 43,000 album-equivalent units (including 8,000 conventional album sales). Top’s NBA Youngboy album cover was released at the same time as the album’s announcement. It was quickly panned for sounding too much like Atlantic Records labelmate Roddy Ricch’s Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial.
This was Youngboy’s first top-ten debut in the United States. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album platinum for combined sales and album-equivalent units on over a million units in the United States.
The album’s debut track, “Outside Today,” was published to streaming platforms months before the album, along with a music video. The song reached number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it YoungBoy’s biggest charting song to date. Future and Birdman make cameos on the album, as does Lil Uzi Vert and Offset on the reloaded edition.
Top: Top was the NBA Youngboy’s first album that debuted No.1 on the billboard. It is the follow-up to his debut album, Until Death Call My Name, which was dropped almost two years ago. It’s YoungBoy’s third effort of the year, following the mixtapes 38 Baby 2 and Still Flexin, Still Steppin. “Top” contains 21 songs and features Snoop Dogg and Lil Wayne as guests.
“Top” debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 in its first week, with 126,000 album-equivalent units (including 19,000 pure album sales), earning YoungBoy’s third number-one album overall and his second in 2020. It also racked up 156.32 million on-demand US streaming across all of its tracks.
Sincerely, Kentrell: This NBA YoungBoy album took head-on with Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy.” Unlike his other albums, there are no guest appearances on this one. On September 28, 2021, a deluxe edition titled Sincerely, Kentrell > (pronounced “better”) was published, which included two more songs.
According to MRC Data, Sincerely, Kentrell opened at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, with 137,000 album-equivalent units (including 10,000 in pure sales) sold in its first week. This was YoungBoy’s fourth number-one debut in the United States. The album’s 23 tracks have gathered a total of 186.29 million on-demand streams. “Toxic Punk,” “White Teeth,” “Nevada,” “Life Support,” and “On My Side” were among Kentrell’s five hits. The album was a financial success and earned mostly good reviews from music reviewers. YoungBoy is the third rapper to have a number one album while jailed, following Tupac and Lil Wayne.
The album received gold certification RIAA.
Colors: “Colors” was the eighteenth mixtape & was the first release of 2022. Quando Rondo makes a single appearance on the mixtape. On the same day, he launched the deluxe version. On the deluxe version, Internet Money makes an additional cameo appearance. “Colors” debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 list in the United States, with 80,000 album-equivalent units sold in its first week, making it YoungBoy’s ninth top-ten album on the chart.
YoungBoy unofficially posted a couple of tracks from the mixtape with music videos to his YouTube page before the official release of Colors. The first video was published in December 2021 for the song “Emo Rockstar.”
YoungBoy also became the quickest rapper in history to chart 20 albums on the Billboard 200, doing it in less than four and a half years after first appearing on the list. YoungBoy also became the quickest rapper in history to chart 20 albums on the Billboard 200, doing it in less than four and a half years after first appearing on the list.
From his highly successful career, NBA Youngboy albums have created a fanbase who are up for the rapper. Even after his tumultuous personal life, the rapper has a loyal fandom. YoungBoy was detained for the first time in September of last year. The rapper was among 16 individuals detained after police and the FBI got an anonymous tip about persons with firearms at an abandoned property. They subsequently claimed that 14 weapons, $79,000 (£61,184) in cash, and narcotics had been recovered from the facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
In the two rappers’ latest effort, “Better Than You,” the bars of DaBaby and YoungBoy Never Broke Again cross. The pair revealed the collaboration effort only a week after releasing visuals for their track “Neighborhood Superstar.” DaBaby also revealed a lyric video teaser for the fourth tune, “Wifi,” which is set to footage from Ice Cube’s Friday.
