Latest Release
- OCT 30, 2024
- 1 Song
- Late Nights: The Album · 2014
- STAY DANGEROUS · 2018
- Slide (feat. YG) - Single · 2019
- My Krazy Life (Deluxe) · 2013
- My Krazy Life (Deluxe) · 2014
- Still Brazy (Deluxe) · 2016
- I Am · 2013
- Victory Lap · 2018
- Carnival · 2019
- Want Her (feat. Quavo & YG) - Single · 2016
Essential Albums
- 2022
- 2019
Artist Playlists
- The rise of Compton rapper YG has helped shape the sound of Los Angeles rap.
Compilations
- R-MEAN & Scott Storch
More To Hear
- Zane chats with YG, Jharrel Jerome, Starrah, and Ava Max.
- The Compton MC opens up on 4REAL 4REAL.
- The late Los Angeles MC remembered through his finest tracks.
- Paying musical tribute to the late Los Angeles MC.
- The singer shuffles his music library, plus dancer Tessa Brooks.
- Music from Travis Scott, Mac Miller, H.E.R., and YG.
More To See
- 2020
About YG
Tough, streetwise, but exuding a distinctly Southern California chill, YG is one of the most confident voices in 21st-century rap. Born Keenon Daequan Ray Jackson in 1990, the Compton MC—alongside L.A.-area producer DJ Mustard—helped bring regional sounds to national ears, blending vintage, stripped-down G-funk with bits of Bay Area hyphy in a way that allowed him (and Mustard, who’s gone on to make crossover hits for Tyga and Rihanna) to crash the mainstream without ever seeming beholden to it. (His first two albums, 2014’s My Krazy Life and 2016’s Still Brazy, went Top 10 on both Billboard's pop and rap charts.) Modeled after gangsta touchstones like Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg, Jackson’s style is remarkably fluid. He balances street vignettes (“1AM,” “Meet the Flockers”) with party fodder (“Who Do You Love?” and his breakout collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign, “Toot It and Boot It”) in a way that feels genuine and direct, tackling the darker sides of his life with sly humor and a stark lack of sentimentality. After he was shot in his studio in 2015—which he recounts on “Who Shot Me”—he went back to work recording the next day. “Was it hard to write about the situation? No, not at all,” he told Billboard, just weeks later. “I’ve been through real s**t and I still go through real s**t, and I made it in sticky situations and turned the negative into a positive.”
- HOMETOWN
- Compton, CA, United States
- BORN
- March 9, 1990
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap