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Get a sneak preview to our new series Backstage Diaries with YG! YH catches up with rapper YG at the Lakewood Mall in California for his 4 Hundred Waze event, inviting local teens to come and shop on his dime! The "Who Do You Love?" artist tells us why he started this cause, plus he explains his signature lingo, reveals his musical influences, and talks a bit about his tattoos!
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I'm the one with the plug. I'm the one who got homies that be. I'm the one on the back street with the fact Better run like athletes. Hey what up? This YG400. Welcome to my Young Hollywood Backstage Diary. It's going down right now my non-profit organization 400 Ways and we at the Lake Wallmore. Yeah. They do it in love. They do it in love. They do it in love. I always been doing stuff for the people. Like I do stuff for my homies, I help my family, and my mama, when I was growing up. When we was young, you feel me? She had a daycare, so she used to watch kids and all that. So she like doing that type of stuff.
When my success started taking off, it was like, all right, we about to take this to the next level. And uh, so that's when I came up with this like event. I thought of this event, like bring the kids to the mall and giving them money and let them shop because there'll be a lot of celebrities or successful people that uh, you feel me? They give back. You feel me? They do stuff for the community but, you feel me? They're like pass out gifts or they'll go up there talk to 'em. Shit that's cool, that's regular. I wanted to be different. I wanted to take the kids. You feel me? We going to go out and I'm going to be with y'all.
And we going to give y'all these cards and y'all going to spend y'all money on what y'all want to spend it on while I'm here with y'all. Like my mom, my auntie, everybody is here right now. They've been supporting me, you feel me? Through the ups and the downs. So to be able to have an organization and we giving back to people that really ain't you feel me? You feel me? That need a little help. And my family's able to help. It's good, it's A1. Huh! They be what you talking about, man? I mean it's you feel me that's the lean go. Some young guys out here, some some people out here. You feel me? That's just how we talk sometimes.
But yeah, big and back being bold, bumping, brazen, gold bomb and. You feel me? Eating a bowl of cereal, smoking a bigger rat. Don't do that. But yeah. It's happening. Couple of the great artists I was listening to from the 90s. Was uh, you got the Dre's, you got the Snoop, you got the Pac's. Or you got the Eazy E's and all that, you feel me? I mean, I got a lot of it. I got the Push's tattoo right here with the brick wall. I got um, I got a lot. I don't even want to talk about it. Oh, I talk about it. I got some tattoos, I mean some crazy stuff. Hey what up? This YG400. Thank you for joining me on my Young Hollywood Backstage Diary 400 Ways Non-Profit Organization.
It's going down got damn it. It's 400. Yeah. They do it in love.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- YG
The featured rapper and host of the event
- Dr. Dre
Cited as a musical influence from the 90s
- Snoop Dogg
Cited as a musical influence from the 90s
- Tupac Shakur
Cited as a musical influence from the 90s
- Eazy-E
Cited as a musical influence from the 90s
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