The singer was born Kentrell DeSean Gaulden in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 20, 1999. YoungBoy Never Broke Again, NBA YoungBoy, and YoungBoy are his stage names.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ken, Telee, and BWay Yungy Ka are his siblings. His ninth-grade dropout. Robbery landed him in Tallulah, Louisiana, prison. He wrote his first album lyrics there. After his grandma died, he moved in with NBA 3Three, a rapper buddy.

 

The pair committed crimes to pay for studio time. YoungBoy Never Broke Again performs at JMBLYA in Dallas, Texas.

Rick Kern. Getty Images YoungBoy started making music after he got a Walmart mic at 14. Life Before Fame was his debut mixtape in 2015. Mind of a Menace 2, Before I Go, and more followed.