STAY DANGEROUS Tracklist
STAY DANGEROUS is West Coast rapper YG’s third studio album, and his first since 2016’s Still Brazy. He took to his Twitter to confirm the album’s release:
Its promotional single, “Suu Whoop” surfaced on February 16th. The track was supposedly meant to be on his previously-announced mixtape Just Re’d Up 3: Know Your Worth.
Before tweeting, YG informed fans of the album on stage during his set at the Boogie All Star Weekend Festival:
Listen, I got a public service announcement and then I got one more motherfuckin' song, if y'all one of my real fans, y'all gon' be really motherfuckin' happy about this shit. It’s been a long time coming. My new motherfuckin' album on the motherfuckin' way, Stay Dangerous, got damn it.
YG released the second single, “Big Bank”, on May 25th.
On June 25th YG announced via Instagram and Twitter that the album would be released on August 3rd:
STAY DANGEROUS. AUGUST 3rd 2018 😈😈😈😈😈😈
“STAY DANGEROUS” Q&A
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What have the artists said about this album?
YG stated in an interview on Shade 45 that he is “experimenting and playing with different sounds and different flows.”
He has also gone on to say how:
“[the Blood community]—the homies just kept saying, ‘Stay dangerous, stay dangerous, stay dangerous, stay dangerous.’ And that was like the lingo of the city. Now it’s bigger than the Bloods. The whole city’s saying it now.”
YG decided to bring it back to “L.A. gang life and the reality of violence.” He has commented on how:
“the last album [Still Brazy] was a little left field…speaking about politics and all that. That was cool. That was good. But I feel like, for me, not putting an album out for two years, I gotta go back to the basics, the streets.”
When asked about incorporating politics and going back to basics, YG explained:
“I’ma be talking crazy, I’m gonna be saying crazy shit. They gonna try to ban the record and all that type of shit. My shit ain’t gonna go to the top of charts, because I’m talking greasy. I ain’t talking nice, I ain’t putting it in radio format. I ain’t doing that. But, when it comes to the club records and the street shit, I can do that for sure.”
