Writer Jon Caramanica introduces the young Baton Rouge, Louisana rapper as "impressive," describing the musical path YoungBoy has chosen as "almost nostalgic."
"He's a clinical realist, sober and unfussy. It's an approach long out of vogue, not dominant since the late 1980s into the mid-1990s, the days of Scarface, Tupac Shakur, Kool G Rap and more," Caramanica explains. He continues, "[YoungBoy] is 17, and already one of the most promising young Southern rappers of the past couple of years, an intuitive songrwriter who salts his bravado with inward-looking seriousness."
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