

Editors’ Notes Realer tops off a busy—and tumultuous—year for Baton Rouge rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again: three mixtapes, three EPs, one studio album (Until Death Call My Name), and a move from regional voice to national player—all on top of a felony arrest that nearly derailed his career. Like the rest of his recent output, the sound here is tough, sometimes brutally so, but it’s offset by flashes of vulnerability and a handle for melody that makes even his harshest lines go down with unsettling ease: See the switch-up from confession to threat on “Slime Belief,” or the standout “Valuable Pain,” a throwback New Orleans-style track featuring a line that captures his spirit in five words: “I murder from the heart.”
Survivor
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2:59
Slime Belief
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3:12
Play Wit Us
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3:11
Big Talk
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2:46
Thug N***a Life
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1:52
Valuable Pain
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2:49
My Mama Say
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2:16
38 Heights
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2:41
Beam Effect
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2:14
Cross Me (feat. Lil Baby and Plies)
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3:53
Dope Lamp
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2:45
I Came Thru
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2:41