Every since being shot back in June, YG has steered away from the music scene. While laying low, he released a mixtape titled California Livin, and has hopped on a number of tracks, but his fans were still eager for more music from him. Now, fully recovered and a bunch of new material under his belt, the 25 year old lyricist is ready to pick up where he left off.
YG recently snagged the cover of Fader Magazine’s December issue, and opened up for a cover story. He touched base on being shot back in the summer while leaving a recording studio in Studio City, California stating, “That was some inside type, somebody-was-really-coming-to-get-me type shit. It was like niggas knew where we was at, and they was coming to do what they was supposed to do.” YG was released from the hospital on June 13, and recorded “Who Shot Me” the very same day rapping, “They knew the code to my gate. That was awkward.”
YG also stated that there are a lot of people against him in Cali stating, “It’s a gang of motherf*ckers out here on some ‘F*ck YG’ shit. We ain’t gon’ speak on ‘em, we ain’t go give ‘em no fame. I ain’t gon’ shed no light on they careers, or they life, or whatever the f*ck they doing. I feel like this: Los Angeles County is sick right now. It’s bad. Everybody mad out here right now. All the young motherf*ckers, they getting money, they motivated. We had something to do with that because we came up. It brought opportunity for motherf*ckers and shed more light on the West Coast. The music sh*t start popping again out here. We got strip clubs now, you feel me? It’s a lot of motherf*ckers doing music now. It’s a lot of females becoming models and sh*t now. We got something to do with that. But at the same time, it’s a lot of motherf*ckers that’s mad because they see what I’m doing, and they want my spot so bad.”
YG’s sophomore album, Still Crazy, will be released in March 2016. He admits that DJ Mustard will less involved than he was on his debut album, My Krazy Life. However, expect to hear work from Terrace Martin, London On Da Track, Hit-Boy, and Metro Boomin’.
YG’s A&R man, Sickamore, revealed, “This record is a little darker. It’s more paranoid. It’s a reflection of where he’s at now.There are songs about YG’s infant daughter, Harmony, and the new sense of purpose she’s given him. There’s a screed on the police brutality that has made recent headlines—but instead of a plea or a spiritual, it’s a war cry, calling for his comrades to stay armed in light of cops that get away with murder. One coy takedown of freeloaders revives an old Compton colloquialism he picked up from family, “Gimme got shot”—a quick retort for when someone asks for something rudely. There are anthems about staying bool, balm, and bollected, and a 50 Cent verse that’s as good as 50’s sounded in a decade, where he raps with youthful hunger alongside YG and Nipsey Hussle about wanting a Benz he’s surely already owned twice. And, most revealing, there’s a chilling song about the second day in YG’s life that almost derailed everything he’s worked for. It opens with a sample of a news report about a shooting that had aired just weeks before. Each time he queues up the album for rooms full of producers, engineers, label reps, or close friends and stragglers during the days I’m with him in L.A., it’s the song he always plays first.”
YG gained much success with his 2013 track, “My N*gga” featuring Young Jeezy and Rich Homie Quan. The track peaked at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100.
