In February, it was revealed that NBA YoungBoy had officially received more RIAA certifications than both Future and J. Cole.
At the time, YoungBoy had 71 gold-selling singles and four gold-selling albums. He’d also received five platinum-selling projects and 38 platinum-selling songs, 10 of which had achieved multi-platinum status. But on Friday (May 13), YoungBoy broke his own record and took to Instagram to show off a massive plaque he’d received from the RIAA to commemorate him having 100 gold and platinum singles. At just 22-years-old, the Baton Rouge lyricist is also one of the youngest artists to achieve this feat.
YoungBoy’s massive achievement unfortunately comes as he continues to feel unappreciated at his label, Atlantic Records. The Top rapper accused his label earlier in May of trying to find a way to sue him after he asked them to stop YouTubers from being able to use his music on their channels.
“Everything y’all post, Atlantic try to make it seem like I’m talking about them so they can try to sue me once the time’s up,” he said in a voice note posted on Akademiks’ Instagram. “Man, tell them people suck my dick. Leave me alone, bitch. Ain’t nobody talking about y’all. I hate y’all bitches. I hate y’all more than y’all hate me. Leave me alone.”
YoungBoy previously accused the major label of blackballing him and preventing his latest mixtape Colors from going No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
“Why black ball me I’m the good guy !!!??” he wrote on IG. “I was going #1 two weeks straight with a mixtape so they took it down off the charts. I don’t give a fuck you still can’t stop me don’t sign to Atlantic if you a artist they not gone support you especially if you live a certain way.”
NBA YoungBoy is still gearing up to drop his new album The Last Slimeto via Never Broke Again and Atlantic Records on August 5. In April, he dropped 11 songs from the 30-track project.
His net worth is only 6 million and all those certifications. Ain’t that messed up
Net worth’s ain’t REAL bro
he has over 100m just in youtube revenue but if you read he had a bad deal w/ Atlantic and they took a large amount of it he’s sitting around 20-30ms
Signs that you are getting too old and you are totally out of touch with current Hip-Hop?? When NBA Youngboy is receiving plaques for having the most gold and platinum plaques, when he out-sells Future and J. Cole and you are left to think how the phuck did that happen? Time for you to retire because the game has passed you by. You’re just dust in the wind, all you are is dust in the wind.
Sorry but going platinum and gold isn’t what it used to be. It’s called lowering the bar to generate interest. The RIAA has made it easier for these artist to go gold/platinum because they know nobody is buying music anymore. Streams are cool but it can’t equate to actual album sales. Streams can be manipulated and that’s why these new rappers are still signing record deals to get that up front money. Meanwhile, the labels will still get a piece of everything they do and promote these inflated accolades.
Labels and artist could also manipulate physical album sales. They just had to ship million albums and then the album was certified platinum. A lot of artist was accused for buying there own albums so they could go platinum.
Bunch of excuses to deny greatness
Right, that’s why youngboy is putting up these numbers on his own, he’s getting black balled and isn’t signed to a label.. the gold/platinum certifications he’s getting are definitely earned bruh
Funny, I’ve never heard ONE song from this dude, and have never met one real life person that listens to him. Industry plants are wack and an insult to the real artists.
Bro are you dumb this guy is the most main streamed artist out rn as we speak you dumb asf and don’t know shit bitch boy
Dumb ass he’s the last person to be in the industry….check his history lol. Stop speaking on things you don’t know