NBA Youngboy, also known as Kentrell Gaulden, is an American rapper who was born on October 20th 1999. He goes under the stage name NBA YoungBoy, which stands for Never Broke Again. He has had four children with three mothers. NBA Youngboy was raised by his grandmother and he started rapping around age of 15. He dropped out of the 9th grade to pursue his music career. A few years ago his grandmother passed away and YoungBoy went through mild depression. During this time, he used his pain to his advantage. He wrote several songs explaining his problems in life and put his emotions into his music. In the end, his work payed off and he’s now one of the most recognized rap artists.
NBA Youngboy is most recognized for his three indented scars on his forehead. In an interview, he explained that the scars are from the halo he had to wear after breaking his neck while wrestling when he was four years old. Help came quickly and YoungBoy made it to a hospital in time to stabilize his condition. A medical halo brace was used to secure his neck in place while he healed. It was that halo brace that caused the scars around NBA YoungBoy’s head.
In December 2016, NBA YoungBoy was arrested in Texas on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder when he was involved in an alleged drive-by shooting. While in jail, NBA YoungBoy released several songs, including “Win or Lose”, “Don’t Matter”, and “Too Much”. NBA YoungBoy was bailed out of prison in May 2017. A week after leaving prison, YoungBoy released the single, “Untouchable”. In the end of 2017, NBA YoungBoy’s career took off after he released his single “Outside Today” which reached number 35 on Billboard Hit 100. Since then, he’s released several other songs and has become a positive influence to many other rappers.
NBA YoungBoy has had a rough childhood and has had trouble with the law several times before. Nevertheless, he continues to release great music and is an inspiration to many. Even at such a young age, YoungBoy has already been able to book tour dates around the US and has many successful songs that have reached the Billboards. NBA YoungBoy’s net worth is around $450,000 and it’s estimated to rise $370,000 in the next year. In conclusion, NBA YoungBoy is one of the most successful rappers in the world. He’s released several hit songs, is able to support and care his four children. He’s managed to completely turn his life around and get back on his feet. Because of these many reasons, I believe that NBA YoungBoy has came a long was and has achieved many great things.
Dear Amy,
For your feature article, one part that I thought was quite unique and stylistically effective was the way you formatted the information in your article. You started your article off by mentioning the current title and status of the rapper and then went into depth to describe his childhood, the circumstances, and lifestyle that lead to his success as a rapper, which you discussed towards the end. This overall added a full-circle theme to your writing, as you ended at the point where you started and lured the reader into your writing through this stylistic choice.
As for improvement, I suggest elaborating more on either the childhood or current life of the rapper to reflect what makes him unique amongst several other rappers in the industry currently. While I was reading, although your information explained the overall identity and work of NBA YoungBoy, it was a bit difficult for me to understand why this rapper is distinct amongst all of the other rappers that are popular with our generation today. Also, for the part where you explained the history behind the scars the rapper has, I thought that was quite interesting and something that any other article may not have explained when writing about NBA YoungBoy; however, I suggest adding some sort of link to connect why that is significant to the work or life of the rapper you wrote about in your feature article.
Overall, I loved reading your work and definitely gained insight regarding the style of your writing and your effective way to add stylistic twists to formal pieces of writing such as the feature article. One final question I have for you is why did you particularly choose this rapper for your article? Is there a certain feature or style of the rapper that inspires you and thus has motivated you to write about him?
Sincerely,
Preet 🙂
Hey Amy,
Good job on your feature article! Your article was very informative and I liked how you incorporated interesting facts throughout the piece. Honestly, I had zero knowledge of NBA YoungBoy until I read your article and although I’m not much of a rap fan, I’ll certainly check out his music.
As for improvements, I have just a few that may help you to polish up your article.
Although the beginning sentence of your article was attention capturing, I suggest you start with something that pops out from everything else. Maybe use of one of his famous quotes, or an interesting fact. This way you automatically capture the readers attention and persuade them to continue reading.
I don’t know much about YoungBoy’s life events; therefore, I may not be justified to give you this suggestion but nonetheless here it is: Throughout the article, it would be good if you kept the events of Youngboy’s life in chronological order. You did an excellent job of describing each event but make sure you include it’s significance as well!
Lastly, I have one more very small suggestion. You have lots of awesome information in your article, something you can do is link everything together to create a nice flow. Perhaps try creating a storyline as a backbone and build your article on that. Start with YoungBoy’s early age going on to teen years, explain significant events of those years. Maybe even talk about how he built up his career and the influences of family. Then you can step into his adulthood and explain his present situations.
That’s it that’s all!
Again, awesome job with the article, Amy! As I mentioned before, I’m not really interested in rappers, so considering that fact that I was genuinely interested in your article means you did a phenomenal job!
Sincerely,
Hefseeba