To say NBA YoungBoy is having a good year would be an understatement. After dodging serious time in a Utah drug ring case last November, he paid a $25,000 fine and walked away without jail time. Things weren’t all smooth, though: a separate set of gun charges landed him 23 months behind bars, five years of probation, and a $200,000 fine.
Then, in true plot-twist fashion, President Donald Trump came through with a pardon on May 28th.
“I want to thank President Trump for granting me a pardon and giving me the opportunity to keep building—as a man, as a father and as an artist…The moment means a lot. It opens the door to a future I’ve worked hard for and I’m fully prepared to step into this,” he said in a statement shortly after the news broke.
Now that the legal drama is (mostly) behind him, YoungBoy is wasting no time ramping up. He’s gearing up for his first headlining tour in five years, Make America Slime Again, which kicks off this September. The streets have been starving, and he’s finally coming back to feed them.
Earlier this year, he dropped the compilation album More Leaks in March, followed by loose singles like “Finest” in May. However, fans have been locked in for a proper new project—and now it’s officially on the calendar.
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On June 16, YoungBoy took to his IG stories to confirm that his next project is dropping on July 4th — just in time for fireworks, barbecues, and slime.
Other details like the title and tracklist are still being kept under wraps, but it’s enough to get fans excited about what’s to come. They’re flooding the comments and crossing their fingers for a collab with Carti (they allegedly have a collab album called 004KT that has been teased for years) and YoungBoy’s craziest tour yet. With a presidential pardon, a comeback tour, and new music all in motion, YoungBoy is racking up wins faster than ever. This might just be the start of his biggest chapter yet.
