YSL Woody Reveals He's A Big NBA YoungBoy Fan And Explains Why He's Relatable

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YSL Woody drew a parallel between his legal struggles in the streets and YoungBoy's own obstacles in court.

YSL Woody is enjoying his freedoms these days from Young Thug and YSL's RICO trial, his testimony in which proved to be one of the most controversial aspects of the case as of late. Moreover, he recently sat down for an interview with The Danza Project, who asked about his remarks on having split personalities. Specifically, the host referred to YNW Melly's "Mixed Personalities" as a similar narrative to what Woody was saying, which is coincidentally and ironically another high-profile criminal case in rap music today. Then, the YSL affiliate said that his thoughts on the matter actually line up well with the reason why he listens to NBA YoungBoy so much.

"Trauma, man," YSL Woody's remarks began. "We have been through so much. That's why I listen to YoungBoy. When I listen to him, I hear the words, but I feel it. I be like, man, he younger than me. That boy needs help, they keep locking him up. That's the same thing that they were doing to me. So they feel like we're a threat, so they gon' lock us up. But when they lockin' us up, they're destroying us, they're making us worser.

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"Get him some help!" YSL Woody continued concerning NBA YoungBoy. "If y'all got him for some drugs, put him in a drug treatment program. Didn't he just tell his probation officer he wasn't going to stop smoking and drinking or whatever they told him? Why y'all gon' put him in jail? Y'all hear him in his songs. So now, when we got these traumas and we're dealing with it, and y'all releasing us back up out of here to the public, what y'all expect from us?

"Y'all locked this man in the house on house arrest for three, four years," YSL Woody concluded his thoughts on NBA YoungBoy and their diverging but similar paths when it comes to crime. "Y'all are showing the world that we don't have no constitutional rights. What else we could do? Because we're saying here, man, there's an ankle monitor on our legs, I'm in our probation house or whatever. They holding onto us."

About The Author
Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.
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