FUSE TV - 5 Craziest Things About YG's Debut Album 'My Krazy Life'

Yesterday in a conference room at Def Jam's New York offices, Los Angeles rapper YG played his major label debut album, My Krazy Life, for a group of journalists. Looking on were his mentor Jeezy and producer DJ Mustard, who nodded their heads vigorously while munching on chicken wings from Hooters. 

L.A has moved to the forefront of rap for the first time in decades, thanks in large part to Mustard, who came up producing for YG but has now worked with Kanye West, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Brown and R. Kelly. But My Krazy Life will be the highest-profile full-length statement the self-tabbed "ratchet" scene has produced to date. 

YG and Mustard have done a number of mixtapes together, but a debut album—even as the record industry wilts—is still looked to as a moment to be seized. Kendrick Lamar proved that a rapper's first major label album can be a springboard instead of an albatross, and now it's YG's turn. Off one listen, it sounds like he may have made that jump. 

YG and Mustard—who produced a bulk of the tracks and oversaw the project as a whole—have not strayed from the snappy and spacious reinvention of g-funk that made them famous. Instead, My Krazy Life is a reminder of why ratchet is so good in the first place. There is not a bad song on the record, and there are several great ones.

In honor of the album's title, here are the five craziest things about YG's My Krazy Life.

1. The Album Is Structured As a "Day in the Life of YG"

Perhaps the most surprising thing about the album is that it's loosely structured as a story, though in reality it's more like a group of scenes linked together by skits. For instance, "Meet the Flockers" is about YG and friends robbing a house—a crime for which he started serving time five-years-and-a-day prior to when the album drops (notice the "03192009" on the cover's mocked-up mugshot). That song is followed by the hit single "My N***a," a celebratory track about sticking with your crew. The trio of R&B tracks in the album's middle also take on a linear flow: YG cheats on his girl ("Do It To Ya"), then finds out his girl is cheating on him ("Me & My Bitch"), and then asks, rather menacingly, "Who Do You Love."