Kinda wanna join in on this string of threads and thought using my favorite artist would be a great idea. There are some early tapes of his that I’ve never listened to as well so thought this’d be a great idea

1st Listen: Life Before Fame: 6.5/10
2nd Listen: Mind of a Menace: 8/10
3rd Listen: Mind of a Menace 2: 7.5/10
4th Listen: Before I Go (Reloaded): 6/10
5th Listen: 38 Baby: 9/10
6th Listen: Mind of a Menace 3: 8/10
7th Listen: AI YoungBoy: 10/10
8th Listen: Ain’t Too Long: 8.5/10
9th Listen: Fed Baby’s (Moneybagg Yo Collab): 8.5/10
10th Listen: Until Death Call My Name: 10/10
11th Listen: Master The Day of Judgement: 7.5/10
12th Listen: UDCMN (Reloaded): 6/10
13th Listen: 4Respect 4Freedom 4Loyalty 4WhatImportant: 9/10
14th Listen: Decided: 6.5/10
15th Listen: Realer: 10/10
16th Listen: AI YoungBoy 2: 10/10
17th Listen: Still Flexin Still Steppin: 8/10
18th Listen: 38 Baby 2: ?/10

Realer and Decided

enjoy

You are about to embark upon an amazing journey

op is in for a journey

Actually need to check out some of his earlier tapes i've missed on as well

enjoy homie

Update: just finished listening to Life Before Fame. For someone’s first mixtape dude had the confidence of a 10 year vet. Although some songs were definitely rough sounding you could still see the potential and vision behind them.

Life Before Fame gets a 6.5 out of 10

Nice. My favorites from him are until death call my name, 4Compilation, AIyb2, realer and top

Someone needs to do a Lil B one lol

I fw Lil B but I would never willingly do that to myself

38 baby and before i go mad underrated nowadays

coming back to this thread when you finish listening to it all after 2 long years

Update 2: Mind of a Menace is a big step forward for YoungBoy. Beat selection is improved, voice is more mature, tracks are mixed better and his delivery is more confident.

These two tracks are my favorite off this tape.

Already two tapes in today on the third rn

Ai Youngboy 2 >

so far does every song sound the exact same be honest OP

No

looks like i have more research to do

Like of course there’s a style that he has but his songs have different themes beats etc

honestly i feel ya i jus think his older s*** needs better mixing/mastering, like one song the 808 quiet af the other everything loud as hell

personally that type of s*** makes it hard for me to enjoy the music properly but overall i like his music

Yea the mixing is ass on his early stuff but sometimes poor mixing gives the music more character

Update 3: Mind of a Menace 2 I feel is him settling on one sound and running with it. Some of the mixing was iffy and beats and general song structure could be repetitive however this is a much more consistent effort than the previous ones. I give it a 7.5/10

My favorite tracks off this

I did this as they dropped and i don't wish that on anyone

Can’t wait to hear @ops thoughts once he’s done listening to the entire discography. My biggest complaint about YB is his music started to sound the same after a while. I would love if he had a wider variety of producers.

AI YoungBoy was the turning point imo