Youngworldibi shows off his talent with new album Blackout

It didn’t take long for the new album from Youngworldibi to come together.

The Lancaster, Pennsylvania native, who also lives in Camden, New Jersey, needed just a week to finish all the writing and hooks and then recorded the project in two five-hour sessions in the studio.

The result is Blackout, a 13-track album that dropped in July, and Youngworldibi loves the way it turned out. He describes it as “hood music” that’s different – it doesn’t fit today’s sound.

“It’s a collection of different beats and sounds,” he says. “I just wanted to show people what I’ve got musically and that I’m serious and this ain’t no one-time thing, drop a song and disappear. I’m letting people know I do this for real.”

Youngworldibi was inspired to start writing and rapping at age 15 after buying a Notorious B.I.G. album. But two years later he found himself doing time in prison, and it was here he started taking music seriously and he spent endless hours writing and finding his own hip hop style.

“I had nothing but time in there,” he says. “Just time doing nothing, just sitting around. Before I got locked up I was writing anyway but I wasn’t serious with it. But then once I was in there I had the time to waste so that’s when I really started writing a lot. I saw that I was getting good at it so I kept going and that’s really where I found my style.”

That’s part of the reason his latest album came together so easily – he wrote so much material behind bars that he doesn’t have to write much from scratch.

Now his music serves to speak his truth as he reflects on his experiences as a youth and today.

“When there are doubters, it always fuels the fire a little bit,” he says. “When people say you can’t do something, if you are a competitor, that drives you.”

Youngworldibi’s first album was Taking The Throne, and he released a six-track EP in 2020 called The Hunger for More. He’s released more than three dozen songs in all.

“Blue Pills,” the fourth track on his newest album, already has more than 40,000 streams on Spotify alone. It’s got a club sound but also features his hard, gritty style and lyrical talent.

His personal favorite, though, is “Megatron,” the album’s finale. It’s more of a feel-good track with a classic hip hop sound, “but I still go at it lyrically,” he says.

Youngworldibi is releasing a new single this month called “The Ride.” After that, he’s planning to take his first album and redo it with some new tracks and release it in two parts. That should come out by the end of the year.

“Right now I’m just trying to get my music out there,” he says. “I love what I do and I take what I do seriously. I put in a lot of work for this, put in time and money. I don’t just do this for fun.”

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