Don't Try This At Home (YoungBoy Never Broke Again Album)
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''Don't Try This at Home'' is the sixth
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by American rapper
YoungBoy Never Broke Again Kentrell DeSean Gaulden (born October 20, 1999), known professionally as YoungBoy Never Broke Again or NBA YoungBoy, is an American rapper. From Louisiana, United States, Gaulden released eight independent mixtapes and garnered a regional foll ...
. It was released on April 21, 2023, by
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and
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. The album features guest appearances from
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,
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. It includes production from YoungBoy's two in-house engineers, Jason "Cheese" Goldberg and Khris James, alongside Dom Beats, Kenoe, Wayv, Yetty, Fresh Ayr and Yo Benji. The project marks YoungBoy's second with Motown and his second in 2023, following January's ''
I Rest My Case ''I Rest My Case'' is the fifth studio album by American rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again. It was released on January 6, 2023, by Never Broke Again and Motown. It features production from YoungBoy's in-house engineer, Jason "Cheese" Goldberg, a ...
''.


Release and promotion

''Don't Try This at Home'' was first teased in late 2022 through YoungBoy's AMP show where he was contemplating the titles of his then fifth studio album, ''I Rest My Case''. Following the release of the album, on February 1, 2023, YoungBoy appeared on the cover of ''Billboard''s Power 100 magazine. YoungBoy's appearance on the cover of the magazine was accompanied by an interview from ''Billboard,'' in which it was noted by Meaghan Garvey that the album was on its way: "He's already preparing his next album, which he's calling ''Don't Try This at Home''." Following the interview with ''Billboard'', on February 16, 2023, YoungBoy appeared on Elliott Wilson and Brian "B.Dot" Miller's highly acclaimed hip-hop podcast, ''Rap Radar'' in which he noted that he would return to his original self on ''Don't Try This at Home'' following the controversial remarks regarding ''I Rest My Case'': "Oh, I'ma talk crazy on there. You know what I'm sayin'? Murder man. But, I'm lettin' you know though, don't try this at home." The existence of the project was officially announced on February 26, 2023, through the
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account of the Never Broke Again label. On March 21, 2023, YoungBoy announced the project via his new Twitter in which he posted the cover art, release date, and the number of tracks on the project. However, the album was officially announced on March 22, 2023, by Motown Records through an Instagram post in which they revealed the album's release date while displaying a placeholder cover art. The song's tracklist was announced several times to release on April 20, 2023, just a day prior to the release of the album, however, due to unforeseen circumstances and several last-minute changes to the album's tracklist, it was released alongside the release of the album itself. However, the tracklist was available early on both
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, increasing the hype behind the project due to the appearances of several snippets such as " Big Truck", "By Myself", "Spin & Ben'n", "War", "Grave Digga", "Off the Lean", and one of YoungBoy's most requested and highly anticipated snippets that his manager Alex Junnier noted "will never drop", the album's twenty-ninth cut, "Cemetery Lifestyle".


Singles

Prior to the release of the album, YoungBoy released several singles which teased the album in each of their respected music videos as they shared a similarly typed-out theme, writing: "Album: Don't Try This at Home". This was first seen following the release of "
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" on February 27, 2023. Just days later, a similar theme was shown in the music video of "Demon Party" which was released on March 2, 2023. The album's lead single "
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" featuring
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was announced weeks prior to its release; it was officially released on April 7, 2023, and was accompanied by its respected music video. The album's second single " Rear View" with
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was released on April 14, 2023, just a week prior to the release of the album.


Album release party

On April 11, 2023, it was announced that YoungBoy would hold his first-ever album release party in his career for ''Don't Try This at Home'' on April 20, 2023, just a day before the album's official release. The party would be held at Elevate Lounge in
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. The event, costing approximately $200,000, was reportedly sponsored by
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's Branson Cognac, and hosted by DJ Carisma, DJ Vision, and DJ Bad. During the release party, there was to be an option for fans to participate in a raffle in which they would have had a chance to converse with the rapper; the conversations was to take place via a live stream, as YoungBoy was on house arrest at the time. Expected to video-call in and despite organizing and going through with the party, reports note that YoungBoy was facing technical difficulties, leading to him not attending his own party. However, a source allegedly told ''
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'' that YoungBoy had fallen asleep, which apparently lead to him missing his own release party.


Artwork

The official artwork for ''Don't Try This at Home'' shares a resemblance to the cover art of Toronto rapper
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in his hometown of
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. Similarly, YoungBoy is seen at the bottom of a steamboat in front of the Horace Wilkinson Bridge in his birthplace of
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. Both covers also share the same conceptual similarity to that of the alternate album artwork of
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's ''Recovery'' (2010), showing him sitting in a transparent living room in the shape of a rectangular cube, with the
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in the background in the rapper's hometown of
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. In March 2023, YoungBoy alluded to his return to Baton Rouge after being on house arrest in
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, since 2021. Referring to his return to his hometown, the album's name can be seen as a metaphor to not "try it" and for one to not push their luck with YoungBoy while he is in Baton Rouge due to his power and influence in the gang violence-ridden city where YoungBoy is facing federal firearm charges.


Critical reception

''Don't Try This at Home'' received mixed reviews from music critics. Robin Murray from '' Clash'' stated that "nobody, needs to listen to a 33 track album. Not in this era, and not – in truth – in any other era", however, he also stated that the album features his "crisp flow", which he "continually delivers". Concluding his review, Murray noted that ''Don't Try This at Home'' is "a scattergun approach that feels unable to reign itself" and that it is "both servant to and a victim of YoungBoy Never Broke Again's largesse". ''Prelude Press''s Dom Vigil stated that ''Don't Try This at Home'' "finds oungBoyfiring on all cylinders, masterfully wielding his off-kilter signature flow, dipping in and out of incisive verses and infectious melodies." Writing for ''Shifter'', Kevin Bourne stated that the album can be broken down into "piano bangers, angsty melodic tracks, generic bangers, and laid back songs", while he continued to write that the majority of the album is compiled of "menacing chords". His review concluded as he wrote that, "NBA Youngboy's latest is decent, but creativity, lacks depth and growth."


Commercial performance

''Don't Try This at Home'' debuted at number five on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart, earning 60,000
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s in its first week, including 1,000 pure album sales. This became Youngboy's 14th top-ten charting album on the chart. It also debuted at number one on the US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, it is Youngboy's eighth number one album on the chart.


Track listing


Personnel

Credits and personnel adapted from
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– rap vocals *
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– vocals (7) *
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– rap vocals (12) *
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– rap vocals (24) *
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– rap vocals (24) Technical * YoungBoy Never Broke Again – recording * Samuel "Khris James XO" Thanni – recording (1, 7, 10, 12, 19, 20, 22, 23, 26) * Jason "Cheese" Goldbergmastering, mixing,
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* Chris Athens – mastering (12) * Aubry "Big Juice" Delaine – engineering (12)


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References

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