Last Updated on February 23, 2024
YoungBoy Never Broke Again, also known as NBA YoungBoy or simply YoungBoy, has been a growing presence in the hip-hop mainstream scene since 2015.
The Birth of YoungBoy
He is born as Kentrell DeSean Gaulden on October 20, 1999 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He dropped out of ninth grade and decided to focus on his music, but was soon arrested for robbery. A detention center in Tallulah was where he started writing lyrics for his first project.
He started producing his own music and released his first mixtape in 2015 and kept releasing until he attracted attention with his October 2016 mixtape, 38 Baby. A 2017 mixtape, AI YoungBoy started his presence at the Billboard charts, its single, Untouchable, peaked at number 95 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
Making It
Gaulden announced his first studio Album, Until Death Call my Name in January 2018 after signing a deal with Atlantic Records. The single Outside Today was released in the same month. The song became YoungBoy’s highest-charting song, peaking at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100. His 12th mixtape Decided, released on September 7, 2018, peaked at number 9 on the Billboard 200.
The constantly changing emotions he expresses with every song has made its mark on YouTube; and his listeners and fan bases have been expanding beyond it. His tumultuous lifestyle and numerous involvements in violence have created a lot of noise, but that hasn’t deterred him from hustling in the only way that he knows how.
Have a listen through many of his life experiences through his songs. And check out some of these inspiring NBA YoungBoy quotes that will give us a lesson or two about living, loving, and the world at large.
NBA YoungBoy Quotes
1. “Time is money I ain’t wasting time. I’m feelin like Kobe I’m in my prime.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Hell and Back”
2. “You gotta pay the cost to be the boss. Always been my dream for me to make it to the top. They act like they don’t believe me but sh*t I promise I won’t stop” – NBA YoungBoy, “What I Was Taught”
3. “F*ck the industry, won’t let ’em take me under.” – NBA YoungBoy, “All I Want”
4. “Stuntin’ on everybody, whoever slept on me.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop”
5. “I don’t really talk that much. I just watch and observe.” – NBA YoungBoy
6. “I ain’t got nothing to prove to nobody.” – NBA YoungBoy
7. “When I’m in public people see me they screaming my name. Just a few days ago I was locked up in them chains. Now I’m in back of the Maybach with a lot of bands. I ain’t worry ’bout ’em dissin’ naw, I don’t hear a thing they sayin’” – NBA YoungBoy, “Untouchable”
8. “I wake up seven or eight in the morning and just smoke and write. It’ll be quiet as a beach, I’ll walk off or some sh*t. Sh*t just be coming to me. I really just rap about how I be feeling, the sh*t I be speaking about I done went through or I’m going to do.” – NBA YoungBoy
9. “Everybody depend on me. I can’t f*ck up. I ain’t the only person that I’m hurting. If I was given a billion dollars to do life in jail, I’d do it and give that sh*t to my fam.” – NBA YoungBoy
10. “I pay for therapy because my thoughts ahead of me.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Lonely Child”
11. “I’m leaving and never coming back.” – NBA YoungBoy
12. “I’ma keep it a hundred, I don’t like you.” – NBA YoungBoy
13. “I know I’m young but I feel like it’s nothing I can’t handle.” – NBA YoungBoy
14. “I come from a rare place. It’s a different culture, different atmosphere, police crooked. Different emojis, and when I say emojis I mean personalities.” – NBA YoungBoy
15. “I ain’t never had a role model, watched Chief Keef growing up.” – NBA YoungBoy, “They Ain’t With Me”
16. “It’s either jail or death, like, literally. Ain’t no living out there.” – NBA YoungBoy
17. “In that cell realized I ain’t got no friends.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Dark Into Light”
18. “Your love is poison so no more I can’t take it.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Love Is Poison”
19. “I’m sorry that I don’t know how to love.” – NBA YoungBoy, “How to Love”
20. “I just wanna wrap you up and hold you in my arms for the night. You been gone for so long, let’s celebrate that we unite.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Ranada”
21. “At night I need someone on side me just to hold me …I’m tired of thuggin’, now I’m tryna see where the love at.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Where the Love At”
22. “I was falling in love with you, I ain’t take you as no dub. You something else, you don’t know what to do with yourself.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Ranada”
23. “I know we got one thing in common: we both want the dough.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Down Chick”
24. “I can make you fall in love with all these diamonds.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Like Me”
25. “I cannot sit here just stress about our situation. I just gotta look at the bigger picture, baby.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Twilight”
26. “I think music made me who I am. Music taught me what was gutter and what wasn’t. Music taught me how to live.” – NBA YoungBoy
27. “I got my way with my grandma. I used to get whoopings with my mom, but my grandma spoiled me.” – NBA YoungBoy
28. “I wrote my first song in the first or second grade.” – NBA YoungBoy
29. “Locked in that cell missed a lot of things. Thinkin’ bout to take over the game. I gotta make my way outta the ring. My heart full of hatred, my chest full of pain.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Trappin’”
30. “Look what I accomplished, I know you see me shining. I know you in the sky you looking down here watching.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Life”
31. “Won’t show no sympathy ’cause it’s a dirty game. I know they don’t feel my pain. Can’t let ’em end my name.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Changed”
32. “Ain’t no pretending, we live like this no acting.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Trappin’”
33. “Baby you so hot, all these diamonds cool you down.” – NBA YoungBoy, “No. 9”
34. “I hate school, I really don’t think it’s important. I got money without school. You go to school to become somebody and get a job and get some decent money, I got it without it.” – NBA YoungBoy
35. “When my grandma left couldn’t do nothing but cry. Got on my knees send my prayers to the sky. I asked em why I swear so many times.”, – NBA Youngboy, “Life”
36. “They smile up in my face but they don’t know what I been through. Whole lotta nights I went to sleep and I ain’t had no food. – NBA YoungBoy, “Untouchable”
37. “I just keep recording. You never know what you’ll come up with.” – NBA YoungBoy
38. “I got a lot of money, but when you wealthy, that mean that your children is ballin’, your grandchildren is ballin’.” – NBA YoungBoy
39. “I’m just trying to be myself – make music how I make music.” – NBA YoungBoy
40. “Success make these niggas mad I know how it is.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Ride On ‘Em”
41. “You probably can overcome what you’re going through from listening to my music.” – NBA YoungBoy
42. “I always try to make my next song better than the last.” – NBA YoungBoy
43. “I’m just a lonely child who wants someone to help him out.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Lonely Child”
44. “I don’t really trust nobody.” – NBA YoungBoy
45. “The only thing that scares me is dying.” – NBA YoungBoy
46. “I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.” – NBA YoungBoy
47. “In the Maybach alone, I don’t need nobody.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Came From”
48. “Without loyalty, you won’t accomplish anything.” – NBA YoungBoy
49. “Gotta keep my head above water, gotta make it through.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Untouchable”
50. “All this sh*t that I go through just make me stronger. Came out the cave now they heard me conquer.” – NBA YoungBoy, “Hell and Back”