Rapper NBA YoungBoy regrets making music that may have contributed to violent crimes.
The 23-year-old rapper, real name Kentrell Gaulden, expressed his regrets in an interview with Billboard magazine from his home in Salt Lake City, Utah.
YoungBoy is currently serving house arrest while awaiting trial on gun charges stemming from his September 2020 arrest in Baton Rouge. On July 15, 2022, YoungBoy was acquitted on his federal firearms charges from an arrest in California.
Now, as he awaits his Baton Rouge trial, YoungBoy worries that his mumble rap music may have led young gangbangers astray.
“I woke one morning, I was like, ‘Damn they got me. Man, look at the sh*t I spoke about. Look at the sh*t I put in these people ears. Man, I feel very wrong about a lot of things. How many lives I actually am responsible for when it comes to my music. How many kids and people have gotten in the car or put this sh*t in their ears and actually hurt someone.”
He continued: “Now I’m sitting back like, damn I can’t do it all in one day. But I promise to clean whatever I can clean but it’s gonna take time.”
YoungBoy said he is considering converting to the Mormon religion after living in Utah.
The first time Mormons visited his home to proselytize in 2022, the rapper turned them away.
But when they returned to his door, he decided to let them in: “I wanted help very badly. I needed a friend. And it hit me. It was just cool to see someone with a different mindset that had nothing to do with business or money — just these wonderful souls,” he tells Billboard.
He’s planning on being officially baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ the Latter-day Saints after his ankle monitor is removed.
As YoungBoy spoke to Billboard, his hand and body trembled. The trembling, called essential tremors, could be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease or another neurological disorder.
Other signs and symptoms of Parkinson’s include slow or low voice, slow body movement, insomnia, loss of smell, constipation, depression, anxiety, and apathy.
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