Name: YG | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #456
Uploaded: 2023-08-01T15:00:37.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'YG | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #456' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-01. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'YG | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #456' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-01. Transcript available.

YG | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #456

i have some new tour dates to announce uh i will be in toronto ontario august
31st at the elgin
theater lincoln lincoln california on september 15th las vegas nevada on october
27th and 28th
milwaukee wisconsin september 8th san jose california september 14th
and washington dc on october 21st at the theater at mgm national harbor all
tickets are available at
theovon.com t-o-u-r thank you for your support today's guest is a rapper from
los angeles he's
out of compton california um he's one you know he got he has he has he's got
some hits he's got some
bangers you know he'll put it together for you he'll put that anthem on that'll
bring the babies
get the heads bob in and um you know he's an actor he's an entrepreneur uh he's
doing a lot of different
things and i'm just grateful to chop it up with him today's guest is mr yg
a lot of brothers seem like they got that cologne built into them
that's what i need yeah my hit different really yeah my different what's
happening mine what do
bro what's popping not much just um excited to spend time with you today thanks
for coming in
thanks for having me dog um so for some of my listeners that won't know about
you right so
you grew up in california yeah yeah and um what was y'all's neighborhood like
growing up
oh man um i grew up like in multiple different you know i'm saying places um
but it was um
it was like shootouts going on like that um some spots was chilling in the
other and then you know
option it was robberies going on a lot heavier in one spot i hate robberies we
was doing them though so
i guess if you yeah if you're on the receiving end of it yeah it was different
though a little bit
different yeah yeah in these uh in these apartments was it fun or not was it
scary or was it fun no it
was all fun it was yeah that'd be the crazy thing bro like a lot of people that
grow up you know i'm
saying living like you feel me the ghetto dangerous life like a lot of us think
it's fun yeah i'm saying
and then when you make it out and then you start looking back like damn i was
playing with fire like
the whole time like it'd be crazy yeah that's what seems interesting sometimes
it's like uh it seems like
this the it seems like grand theft auto sometimes you know whenever whenever
you get out of that space
and you get into like a like a i guess probably they probably look at it as
like a fancier way of
living or you make it out right do those do those people look differently at
you then is that kind of
um i mean it depends on your story you know what i'm saying and how you came up
and made it out
and um like you know you always gonna have a group of people that's speaking
like down on you you know
what i'm saying negative comments but um like when you did it like you know
what i'm saying like the
right way or like you know i'm saying you kept it solid you feel me you gonna
have a lot of people
just like championing your name you know yeah um oh yeah that's i can see that
yeah like like like
like my story like you know i'm saying if you from la like if you from los angeles
county you know what
i'm saying you know why is your story you know what i'm saying and uh you feel
me you like you probably
damn near feel like you know ig you know um so i feel like me making it out
still being out here you
know what i'm saying having success and still doing it i feel like like a lot
of people like you know
i'm saying they um support they look up to it they support it they can relate
yeah for sure you know
what i'm saying they seen the whole come up right do they have halloween in
like the hood or whatever
they have halloween in the hood or yeah it's halloween everywhere it's
dangerous though really i mean
halloween is a night you can get away with doing crime because everybody's
wearing costumes and
masks and shit like that so you know yeah you can't have a police lineup with
dracula in it super mario
that's gonna uh nobody's gonna know who did anything exactly you can't call and
say a pokemon
just fucking hell me up yeah um what is like the best holiday in uh
in like the hood what is the best holiday you think
4th of july yeah yeah that should be pop really
block parties everywhere yeah barbecues barbecues block party fireworks it's
like four parties going
on you hitting like four parties in one day you know what i'm saying it's like
memorial day 4th of july
waiver day weekend so that kind of day is a bigger day and then like kind of a
traditional holiday probably
now you now you ask what's the best holiday in the hood like you know what i'm
saying like the other
holidays like you with your family in the house right you know what i'm saying
um or the three holidays
i just name is like you outside yeah you know what i'm saying so like like on
some hoods like yeah
those gonna be the best of the holidays you know yeah i would like i think
sometimes i would like to
go to some of those parties you know yeah no the party's broken you know what i'm
saying be lit
be lit you know what i'm saying like i stopped doing like the wild ghetto hood
you take the day
off for that parties no no no no no hell no i still wait what you mean like
would you would
people date take the day off of um like doing you know i don't want to say
crime or whatever but
do people take the day off and just everybody is that a truce and everything is
chill like on a
memorial day or 4th of july hell no you get your brain splatting bro you get
the wrong place at the
wrong time y'all see wrong room wrong group of people you know what i'm saying
you get seen by the wrong
person something like it's bad damn bro some freeze tag in that y'all playing
huh these like i mean
i'm chilling but you know when you left when you moved out of there did you
have to like have a
formal meeting with everybody like hey guys i just want you to know no like bro
i was living like
like i was living in in inglewood for for a minute like but i was like when i
started like
having success like i was living in inglewood like dead smack in the middle of
the ghetto
and everybody knew where i lived at like yeah you know what i'm saying and um
you know what i'm saying
i was having like songs on the radio doing all type of leaving out of town
going on tour
my mama and them at the house you know what i'm saying um well yeah when i got
up out of there
like i just got on i went to the valley damn i went to the valley but i left
the valley because
i'm like this weak the valley was hell yeah yeah it's a lot of uber eats and
out there
no this is like you feel me this is like 2013. oh yeah you know what i'm saying
i left i went to the valley i left the valley and i'm like nah
and then i'm with the orange county you feel me i was like hunson beach or
something damn
yeah bro i was all over the place like my whole life out here i've been all
over the place like
do you think uh
man i would love what do you think you ever do like a christmas album a christmas
album yeah
i mean i feel like you feel me that'd be kind of weird for me no
i don't i mean i don't think it would be i don't i think if i did a christmas
album
like my it'd be like it'd be like my it'd be like called like ho ho you know
yeah
just have a couple bitches on it yeah like rudolph the red nose yeah yeah you
gotta my
should be about the you know what i'm saying oh yeah it's beginning to look
like these are showing up yeah i could see something like that see i would love
if there
was like kind of like uh i bet you could pull some anthems though out of like a
christmas album man
maybe you know i'm trying to think of something else um i'm dreaming of a red
bone with a long
ass braid yeah we gotta take you to the studio i mean i'm just trying to i
would just i've never
seen a christmas album that had you know that really had some fire in it you
know mariah did
that one and that one was good but there's nothing that's nobody's really come
up and pulled up at
christmas with that banger boy it was like some gangster yeah that's what i
want you know you
like gangster music i want to see somebody shoot up a snowman you know oh yeah
um i like some of it
like when i was growing up like little wayne was i grew up in new orleans or
outside of new orleans so
like juvenile who else little wayne uh partners in crime mystical uh cash money
was huge then hell yeah
who cash money used to go come to the gym at lsu and uh it was like silk and
master p and he would
they would have these other dudes stand on the side and hold their clothes for
whenever they got
done playing just some dudes like just standing there like they were like a
coat rack just holding
their shoes and clothes um so what kind of motive like like so when do you when
does music really
start to kind of take off for you and were you always musically inclined or did
that come with like
through school through friends um i mean i grew up you know what i'm saying
i finally like my mom and my pops my like everybody around you know i'm saying
was heavy hip-hop rap um
r b you know r b you know i'm saying family you know what i'm saying that's all
we like like listen to but
um like in high school is when i started rapping though like i started rapping
in high school and like
like my homies i went to school with you know i'm saying like blew me since
then you feel me like bro
since you started you had it wow it was just like you know what i'm saying like
i always made
music that people like party to you know what i'm saying so when i started off
and i was just like a
rookie trash i thought i was weak as you feel me the homies was like nah this
shit how are we part of this
shit like you feel me so like i don't know bro but uh so it was just a gift you
think
yeah do you think do you look at it as a gift do you look at it as like a nah
no no no yeah i'm for
sure gifted for sure for sure gifted um yeah it's a gift you know what i'm
saying like i just had to
work on a couple of things you know and would they let you like in school would
they let you do it or do
you or do you mostly just start to produce stuff with friends what you mean in
school they let me do it
like do they say like you start coming up with lyrics right uh-huh say you got
like you got rhymes you
got lyrics you got bars yeah do what's the next thing you have to get how do
you do you may also
make your own beats or do you get matched up with a beat maker what's that like
and how hard is that
you know i was trying to make my own beats and at first and i couldn't get like
i couldn't
with the program and and i just couldn't get with it and so uh i started just
rapping on on other beats
like how lil wayne was doing and i was on like line wire and all that
downloading pulling beats down
yeah like rapping on like that yeah and then um probably like a year later i
started meeting
like like motherfuckers that made beats and on myspace and um and then yeah
like i started having my like
like original songs and and um like outside of that like what helped like me
like navigate and
like end up popping off you know i'm saying out the city was you know i'm
saying i was like in the
streets and shit and i had like a movement going on at a young age and i had
like a gang of
motherfuckers and we was all from the same click it was like some young high
school
like high school fresh out of high school ghetto ass kids you know what i'm
saying and um you know
that movement like helped me like navigate through the city like like everybody
was talking about like
why is this why is that uh and uh yeah did y'all have any weaponry hell yeah
yeah yeah bro like like like
i came up like in the club like outside at a young age doing all the outside
you see me we was doing all
the street yeah but then we was partying we like it was the party we was the
party crew but then at the
party you know what i'm saying like i used to go to all the parties and like
you know i used to be like
like gang banging you know at the parties and the parties was you know what i'm
saying we'll have a
whole bunch of like m