I'm not a rapper I'm order management creator businessman yeah I'm an okay
girlfriend real Iran before yg was going loco and before he had a big bank he had
a question he was wondering why are people always hating and who do you
really love back in the early days why'd you just wanted to party with some
bottle service but today he's got a lot of power in the game before yg would be
investigated by the Secret Service because of the lyrics on his song at
Donald Trump before he would make hits with ty dolla sign 2 Chainz ASAP Rocky
21 savage Lil Wayne DJ mustard Snoop Dogg Kendrick Drake and basically
everyone else in the industry he's a pretty well liked guy and before yg
would have more than 3 million subscribers on YouTube more than 3
million bars on Twitter and close to 6 million on Instagram at the time of this
recording yg has lived a crazy life and well it's been well-documented through
his autobiographical albums there are certain parts of his story that you need
to hear about he's survived getting shot multiple times going to jail having
label troubles and basically everything else you can imagine but through
everything yg persevered in the interview he said it took me some years
to be in this situation it took a lot of work
it ain't no overnight process but he's made it through to tell his story in an
honest and entertaining way that's led him to selling millions of Records and
becoming undoubtedly one of the hottest names in rap over the past decade this
is the story of yg what's going on good people in the comment section my name is
Jeremy Hanks I hope you're having one heck of a day and welcome back to before
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yg fans I will answer at the end of the video what was YG's original online
screen name alright stick around for that let's get into the show
before they're famous or they were before were famous about what that was
pretty good video skyhook hearty unity gray Michael's never brought dinner yg
was born Kenan Daquan ray Jackson on March 9th 1990 in Compton California but
how to respect to yg I'll call it Bobtown for now don't worry
speaking of gang life though yg was surrounded from it at a young age and he
was drawn into the lifestyle joining the Bloods at around the age of 16 fitting
that his rap name stands for young gangster that's also around the same
time that his father went to jail for tax fraud although yg was involved in
the streets already his father would try and get him on the right path but when
his dad went away yg says there was nothing holding him back from going all
of in that lifestyle before that as a kid why he was a big fan of Bugs Bunny
and loved video games including Madden halo and crash bandicoot's an all-time
klutz yg attended a few different high schools
including paramount and Mayfair high but he never graduated from any of them
while in school he was a class clown who would always draw on the desks I
actually had to go to the principal's office one time for drawing Pokemon
characters on my desk in elementary school they were just great canvases so
I feel you yg for money besides his street life yg worked at a burger place
called Fuddruckers for a month within a far meet the sagging thing I worked at a
warehouse load trucks on I quit - because that was too much but
his main income at the time came from breaking into houses his interest in
music grew alongside his street involvement tho and in 2008 yg met DJ
mustard who later became his DJ this was before mustard was even making any beats
but the two became close friends about management at the time and a big meeting
me up with Todd dollar song and mustard YG's first mixtape was released in 2009
on to MySpace but he was also well known for being in the streets and passing out
his mixtape to anyone who would listen he locked himself in a studio for six
straight months his studio was his bedroom at the time but he locked
himself in until he felt like the music was ready he started to gain some
traction with the single tooted and booed at featuring ty dolla sign it
according to yg the song became a huge hit with the kids in LA and they all
started to jerk to it like it's a dance move not you know you say cuss but kids
started posting videos online dancing to the song gaining it more and more
traction they even labeled YG's the king of jerk at one point a title which he
understandably chose not to Rowan but to help promote his records yg with tour
around Compton and perform at house parties his mom would help him booked
venues which he would pack out but sometimes things went left he said there
were shootouts going on I was throwing parties in Compton encrypt neighborhoods
they come into the house and start shooting while leaving one of those
parties one night yg and his friends accidentally shot at each other after a
drive-by mix-up that's a tough cut mix-up but luckily everything worked out
things caught up with yg though as he was sentenced to go to jail at 19 years
old after attempted residential burglary charges and yg was actually in jail
while tooted and booted started to take off the song had millions of plays on
his MySpace page initially yg didn't even like the song though but some of
hip-hop's finest felt differently some of the
on Snoop Dogg's youth football team we're listening to yg single and snoop
loved what he heard so snoop hopped on a remixed version of
the song and 50 cent loved the song so much that he dropped his remix to the
song on to his website the single was licensed to Def Jam for distribution and
reached number 67 on the Billboard charts three months after being released
from jail Def Jam signed yg to a full label deal but things didn't work out so
smoothly from there he told the LA Times in an interview that there was some
trouble finding his direction at Def Jam I was in a situation where I was a West
Coast artist side to an East Coast label when me and mustard first started
putting out big records they got a lot of recognition on YouTube but Def Jam
didn't know what to do with me because it was a new sound and I was a new
artist ty dolla originally produced for yg but when he left to go focus on his
solo artistry why he didn't have a producer that's
when DJ mustard stepped in musically and there began what would become a
legendary partnership but due to label troubles and lack of support yg worked
on his own management and marketing outside of the label he set up his own
tours and spent his own out of pocket money shooting music videos going on
radio promo runs and more people even called yg a one-hit wonder at the time
crazy to think based on the amount of hits he has now speaking of hits though
ran in fact the song r.i.p by Jeezy was supposed to be a yg song why'd you even
wrote three or four verses to the song before passing the beat onto Jeezy but
Jeezy is actually a big reason why the label pushed yg harder he went to bat
for yg and said that this kid is gonna be a star and he wasn't wrong why he
dropped off mixtapes including just read up and 400 degrees keeping his buzz
building he went on tour with Tyga and Mac Miller rest in peace then he did his
own tour and drop just Rida - with mustard producing him and the two seemed
like an unstoppable force and after some massively successful
singles the label saw that it was time for yg to release a full-length studio
project in 2014 yg released his debut album my crazy life - both critical and
commercial success with many people calling it one of the most complete rap
albums of the past decade it was actually one of my personal favorite
albums that year in terms of coming up with a concept and exit
still making great music it wasn't just me that album took yg to a whole new
level the success continued dropping blame it on the streets later that year
and still crazy in 2016 featuring why you always hating with Drake the album
also included the song F DT with Nipsey Hussle and let's just say it caused a
little bit of controversy the Secret Service began investigating yg and told
him that he had to censor some of the song's lyrics as well as other lyrics on
the album but why he was still allowed to drop it and kept the run going with
red Friday and then stay dangerous and why he built himself into one of the
best live performers in hip-hop but just as everything seemed to be at its height
for yg one night things took a turn while recording his album in Studio City
he left to go get some drinks and when he pulled back up there was a black
truck waiting outside of the studio and I see like outside the truck I ain't
never seen a pony like they ain't look like there'd be a pulley if they was
over there they'd be order for me to finish the car continued to look
suspicious so when one of the guys hopped out of the car
one of YG's friends started asking him what they were doing the stories weren't
adding up in yg suspicions continued so yg told the guy that they were gonna go
back inside and hang out and that you should leave but shortly afterwards
there were people at the door knocking and asking to be let in at gunpoint
that's when things got bad and eventually after running through the
doors shots were fired and yg was hit I'll seem like the whole like right yeah
like right here you got like a money order like you come esup and I see the
whole like oh I gotta go to the hospital and that wasn't even the end of things
they got into an accident on the way to the hospital
wine spilled everywhere which made it look like everyone was bleeding I
thought I was gone but when I caused it in heaven I'm like well I'm about to
bleed to death it's a wrap all of this happened just three weeks after YG's
daughter was born luckily he was blessed to see another day on top of that he
then had to deal with the loss of his good friend and collaborator Nipsey
Hussle it's still hard to believe that nipsey is gone and i'm
things are probably still really hard for yg so prayers go to him and his
family most recently YG dropped his newest
album for real for real with the single go Loco and there's no
questioning that his run and music will continue for as long as he wants it to
all we can be sure of is that yg is the men and that was actually his first
screen name it was yg the man and there you had the
answer to the question from the beginning of the video but as for the
rest of this one you know it because this is before they were famous
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