YG has courageously revealed that he was sexually assaulted when he was growing up on his new song “2004.”
A snippet of the track obtained by The Breakfast Club ahead of its release on Friday (March 28) hears the Compton rapper open up for the first time about being raped by an older woman when he was a teen.
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“When I was young I got raped / By a bitch twice my age / Picked me up from school, took me to hers and got laid / And since that day I never looked at shit the same,” he raps over a funky, West Coast-flavored beat.
He continues: “My life is insane, like I’m from Baby Gang / How I’m ‘posed to change with all the fucked up shit I’ve seen? / Fucked up, yeah, I know / Fucked up and some mo’ / I’m so used to fucking up I got fucked up at the show / Fucked up, yeah, I know / How fucked up could it go? / Nipsey left me like how Biggie left Hov.”
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YG goes into more detail later in the song, revealing that he was just 14 when the sexual assault took place while the woman was 30.
“The bitch took advantage of me, I ain’t got no trust / The bitch took advantage of me, I ain’t get no choice / At 14 years old, I got my dick sucked / At 14 years old, I got my dicked sucked by a ho that was 30 years old / And I never told / Was dating her niece when this happened, it was hard on my soul,” he spits.
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The 4HUNNID founder then reveals that he and the woman continued having a sexual relationship, which escalated to acts that made him deeply uncomfortable.
“‘Cause me and her auntie kept fucking fa sho / Then oh, one day I felt like this was too much / I knew this wasn’t regular as I grew up / She told me eat her ass, after that I threw up / Can’t believe I had my face in her butt,” he raps.
YG isn’t the first rapper to open up about their past sexual trauma.
Last year, A$AP Ferg bared his soul on his Darold album cut “Pool,” recounting the time he was molested as a kid by an older boy in a swimming pool.
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“At 10, I was drowning, touched when I was in the pool / All the breath left my body where I couldn’t move / Violated, hand on my private by a bigger dude / Seconds felt like forever, really wasn’t cool / When he seen me ’round the block, he would smile and laugh / As if we had a little secret and I hated that / Thinking ’bout what he did really made me mad / Even thought about murder, wanted to kill his ass,” he rapped.
The Harlem native also admitted that the incident scarred him and shaped his views on sex and relationship later in life: “As a kid, all this guilt laid up inside of me / Couple n-ggas called us gay ’cause we was designing things / I was triggered and that shit really bothered me / Toxic masculinity was building up inside of me / So I had to have women in variety.”
Ferg later spoke about the song during an appearance on The Breakfast Club, revealing it took him “eight years” to write.
“I wanted to basically create a piece of art that my kid could find or [other] kids could find and and listen to it,” he said. “I’m still jiggy, I’m still this person or whatever and let them know that the things that happen to you really happen for you.
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“But [also], the things that happen to you, it doesn’t define you […] Not just in the hood, I feel like this is going on everywhere and people just not going to talk about it. And I’m like, ‘Yo, what am I talking about? I didn’t make that happen to me. That ain’t mine to be trying to hold inside.'”
