YG just released My Krazy Life, easily the best rap album of 2014 thus far, and he exists at the forefront of the West Coast's ratchet movement sound. He is a fully-formed new rap star, but he's not yet a great live show. I saw that for myself at SXSW last week, and he showed it again last night as the musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Doing a medley of the singles "Who Do You Love" and "My Nigga," YG had help from label boss Jeezy, production mastermind DJ Mustard, and a gigantic baseball cap. He did not have an entire battalion of this non-rapping friends onstage, which counts as progress. Easy highlight of the performance: Jeezy's hat falling off. YG will get better at this sort of thing if he keeps doing it, but the songs are already there. Watch the performance below.
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My Krazy Life is out now on Def Jam, and I honestly cannot say enough good things about it.
