NBA Young Boy is famous African American rapper, singer and song writer who became millionaire when he was only 18 years old.
NBA Young Boy is his stage name and abbreviations NBA is derived from phrase “Never Broke Again” so his full stage name is NBA Young Boy Never Broke Again although many people simple call him just Young Boy.
He gained popularity for the first time when he published the track titled “Homicide” and he became famous by releasing of track under name “38 Baby”.
Young Boy has hard and problematic childhood and teenage period. He was arrested in December 2016 because he was suspect for attempt of first-degree murder but he was released from jail after five months. Young Boy has four sons with three different women.
More about successful career and risky private life you can read in the text below.
Early years
The full and initial name of Young Boy is Kentrell DeSean Gaulden. He was born on October 20th 1999 in North Baton Rouge in Louisiana, United States of America.
His mother named Sherhonda Gaulden had to raised him up since his father went to jail to serve a prison sentence which lasts 55 years. He growth up with his older sister and younger brother. Their grandmother mostly took care of them.
He broke his neck when he was just four years old so he wear then halo brace until he completely recovery.
Young boy was a real troublemaker when he was a kid and teenager. He was arrested when he was just 14 years old because he committed a robbery. Unfortunately, his grandmother dided when he came back from prison. After that he left the school and he was ninth grade in that period.
Unfortunately, when he came back from jail his grandmother died and he started to live with Scotty Cain who is rapper from Baton Rouge and also his friend known under stage name 3Three. Both of them wanted to earn enough money for their studio recording so they were perpetrators of some crime activities.
Soon after that, on December 2015, he released his first album under name “Life Before Fame”.
He attended Scotlandville Magnet High School.
While he was a boy and teenager he mostly listened the rapper named Lil Phat so we can say that this musician is his role model.
Career development
After his first album named “Life Before Fame” (2015) he released on April same year one more under name “Mind of a Menace” and after that also two sequels of that album titled “Mind of a Menace 2”, and “Mind of a Menace 3”. These four albums didn’t brought big popularity to him.
In 2015 he became popular for the first time when he released the track called “Homicide” which he made in collaboration with his colleague hip-hopper Scotty Cain. This song gained more than 3.8 millions views on YouTube.
On December same year he attract the huge attention of audience because of his performing for song “song-for-track rap beef” along with his colleague Scotty Cain.
He gained popularity when he released a mixtape No Plug with song called “Draco” which brought him many fans and followers on his YouTube channel and other social media accounts.
On October 2016 he released mixtape titled “38 Baby” in collaboration with rappers Kevin Gates and Boosie Badazz. The song “38 Baby” for a very short time reached 3 million views. This album became very popular and the listened songs on it besides “38 Baby” were Ride Out”, “Hell and Back”, “How I live”.
While he was in jail because of first degree murder attempt by shooting during drive he released three songs under names “Don’t Matter”, “Win or Lose” and “Too Much”.
Soon after he got out of jail he released single called “Untouchable”, which has even 97 million views on YouTube. Besides that song gained 39th place on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Young Boy used his publicity after he was imprisoned to become famous.
His songs “No Smoke” and “Outside Today” also was on the list of 100 songs at Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. His very popular and listened songs are also “38 Baby”, “Win or Lose”, “Gravity” and “I Ain’t Hiding”.
In 2017 he made a music video titled “41” in which he featured with several popular musicians such as Young Thug, 21 Savage, BoosieBadazz, YoGotti and Meek Mill.
On April 2018 he released his first studio album under name “Until death call my name” produced by Never Broke Again, Atlantic Records and LLC and also with their copyright labels.
On this album he collaborated with three more musicians – Lil Baby, Birdman and Future who were guests in some songs. Young Boy has two singles on this album titled “Outside Today” and “Diamond Teet Samurai”. This album took 30th place at Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart of 100 albums in total.
It’s interesting that he dropped the abbreviation NBA from his artist name because he didn’t want to confuse people who can replace him with some NBA (National Basketball Association) player.
NBA Young Boy also launched his official website named https://youngboynba.com/ on which people can download his songs or to listening them them via live stream. Besides that, on this site fans can find information about dates of his tour which lasts in March and April this year.
Young Boy also made his own merchandise which includes clothing line products such as socks, T-shirts, hoodies and ski masks with printed pictures of his face or titles and motives of his song 38 Baby.
The prices of this products are affordable and they are not expensive. For example, socks costs $15, T-shirts are $30, ski masks are $25 and the price of hoodies is $45.
Young Boy is very active on his social media accounts. He has more than 4.5 million of subscribers on his YouTube channel.
He has even over than 6.2 million followers on his Instagram account and almost 1.5 million followers on his Twitter profile.
On his official Facebook page he has almost 800 thousand fans.
Personal life
Although he has only 19 years Young Boy already has four sons with for three different women. Their names are Kayden, Taylin, Kamron and Kamiri.
Although he is very young (only 20 years) he earns enough money to raised them up all.
He broke up with his last girlfriend named Jania Bania while she was pregnant. That couple had a very turbulent relationship. On August last year Jania posted suicidal video.
The people spotted bruises on her body but she denied the speculations that Young Boy attacked her. At the end of last year appeared a video in which people can see how Young Boy pushed his ex-girlfriend on the hallway in the hotel in Florida and later he grabbed her and he pulled her into hotel room so he was suspect for kidnapping her because he dragged her by using force.
He also was suspected for violence and possessing of weapon but he paid $75 thousands bail and after that he was released from jail.
He claims that he is single currently although media links him with many women. Recently one woman posts a photo on which people can see a tattoo of Young Boy face on her boob but Young Boy denied speculations that he is in relationship with that woman and he confirmed once more that he is single.
His ex girlfriend Jania posted on February 13th this year on her Instagram profile the announcement of birth of baby girl Kacey whose father, as she claims, is Young Boy who wrote a twit that he has only four sons and that he is single guy although he deleted that post later.
At the beginning of this year there was rumors that Young Boy is dating with daughter of famous boxer Floyd Mayweather named Iyanna Mayweather who is also known as Yaya but Young Boy also denied these speculations and he claimed that he is single.
Recently Yaya confirmed on her social media accounts that she is in relationship with Young Boy when she posted a photo on which they are both together and she wrote “I love you”.
Her father Floyd Mayweather didn’t express in the public his own opinion about relationship of his daughter with Young Boy whose fans warn him to has better behavior and treatment to her since Floyd is famous boxer.
Young Boy is well known in the public by his violent behavior. He is very aggressive and problematic and he was arrested a few times.
On December 2016 Young Boy was arrested because he was one of three suspects for the first degree murder attempt in Texas. He was 17 years old in that moment. The attempt by shooting from firearm happened during driving car in Baton Rouge so he was brought to the Police Department of that place.
He was released from jail only after five months because he accepted the plea deal and he paid a bail. During trial judge stated that his music genre “normalized violence” and that his “talent comes responsibility” since people listen his songs.
On February 11th this year he was arrested because of assaulting of housekeeper in the “Hyatt House” hotel on Marietta Street in Athlanta where Young Boy and woman named Starr Thigpen were accommodated.
According to statements of police officers of Atlanta Police Department the incident happened happened when housekeeper entered in the hotel room to clean it after she was knocking a few times. She expected that the room should be empty since no one answered on her knocking on the door but then it followed unpleasant surprise because the Thigpen grabbed the housekeeper with intention to throwing her out. After that he attacked her and started to striking her in the face.
He keep to assaulted her in the hallway of the hotel after what one of employees there saw that his colleague is in the trouble and he called a police.
Young Boy was arrested because of bad behavior, using of attacking words, physical obstruction and also of possessing marijuana while Thigpen also was accused for bad behavior, physical obstruction, possessing marijuana and violence to another person.
His favourite color of Young Boy is orange. Young Boy has two pets, a dog and a baby tiger.
He often posts his selfies and photos of himself on his social networks accounts.
He has a few scars on his face that obviously represents the consequences of his hard and problematic childhood and teenage period due to the fact he was arrested for the first time when he was just 14 years old.
Net worth
His net worth is estimated in total about $500 thousand. According to some estimates in 2018 his net worth was $500 thousand and in 2017 it is estimated on $450 but is hard to predict preciously net worth since he has a several sources of earning money. Besides earnings from YouTube channel, his albums, tours, performances and concerts he also earns money from selling his merchandise.
In the text below you can see the list of estimated net worth in the last eight years, from 2011 to 2018 since the net worth of 2019 still isn’t available.
Year 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
Net Worth $500k $450k $250k $220k $200k $150k 100k 80k 50k
Quick summary
Full name: Kentrell DeSean Gaulden
Nickname: Young Boy Never Broke Again, NBA Young Boy, Young Boy
Date of birth: October 20th 1999
Age: 20
Zodiac sign: Libra
Birthplace: Baton Rouge in Louisiana, United States of America
Profession/Occupation: rapper, singer, song writer, media star
Net worth and salary: about $500 thousands
Height: 175 cm or 5 feet and 9 inches
Weight: 67 kg or 148 pounds
Marital status: not married
Children: four sons named Kayden, Taylin, Kamron and Kamiri.
Love status: currently single
Residence: Unknown
Religion: Unknown
Nationality: American
Origin: Unknown
Ethnicity: African American
Social media accounts and web site:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClW4jraMKz6Qj69lJf-tODA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nbayoungboy/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nba_youngboy/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ggyoungboy
Official web site: https://youngboynba.com/