NBA YoungBoy has partnered with Amazon to launch his personal radio present forward of what’s shaping as much as be one other prolific 12 months for the Baton Rouge rap star.
Whereas particulars stay scarce, YoungBoy’s By no means Broke Once more label introduced his radio present on their official Instagram web page on Thursday (December 8), revealing this system will debut on Amazon’s Amp app on Friday (December 9).
“‘YOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE AGAIN RADIO SHOW’ Lil TOP staff up with ‘Amazon’ on a Radio discuss present launching tomorrow,” learn the Instagram caption under a graphic asserting the information. “Y’all tune in to wat NBAYOUNGBOY has to say. Extra particulars later.”
By no means Broke Once more later posted a video of the Final Slimeto rapper sharing extra particulars concerning the present. “Go obtain the Amp app and tune into my Amazon radio station tomorrow at 7 o’clock Mountain Time, 8 o’clock Central Time,” he instructed followers. “I’ma have three friends play. Don’t miss it, n-gga.”
Amazon launched Amp in March 2022 as a rival to Clubhouse and Twitter Areas. The app permits customers to host their very own reside radio reveals with entry to tens of tens of millions of licensed songs from the libraries of main and unbiased labels alike, in addition to the flexibility to interact and work together with audiences in real-time.
Whereas the app is on the market to wannabe DJs and presenters, Amazon has additionally recruited numerous high-profile names to move up their very own radio reveals, together with Nicki Minaj (Queen Radio), Joe Budden (Music Lovers Solely With Joe Budden), Pusha T (Snow Day Radio) and Lil Yachty (The Boy With No Filter).
Music stays firmly on the coronary heart of NBA YoungBoy’s plans, although, with the 23-year-old additionally teasing the arrival of a brand new album on the prime of subsequent 12 months.
“My album drop January — I don’t know the date. Simply wait,” he mentioned in a video that surfaced on-line earlier this week. “Your favourite rapper, that boy gon’ be capable of speak about regardless of the fuck he speaking about as a result of you understand I’m that thang, bitch, so I’ma depart it at that.”
Tentatively titled Black, the mission will function YoungBoy’s fifth studio album and the follow-up to The Final Slimeto, which arrived in August. That was simply one among seven full-length releases from the By no means Broke Once more boss, who additionally dropped 4 solo mixtapes and two collaborative initiatives with DaBaby and Quando Rondo.
The rapper had at one level flirted with the thought of releasing 10 initiatives in a single calendar 12 months, till it seems he hit a artistic wall. “Would you care if I mentioned not until subsequent 12 months?” YoungBoy requested followers in a YouTube remark final month. “Quando dropping the tape with me and him however I ran out of rhymes assist me??”
The brand new album will even function his first launch on Motown Data, to whom he signed in October after a “extremely aggressive” bidding struggle. YoungBoy beforehand spent 5 years on Atlantic Data, who he accused of “blackballing” him earlier this 12 months.