YG Speaks On New Song Where He Reveals He Was R@ped As A Teen: 90% Of The Men I Played It For Have Similar Stories’

YG Speaks On New Song Where He Reveals He Was R@ped As A Teen

#YG is opening up about a personal experience that he says is more common than people realize.

 

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In a new interview with ABC News, the rapper talked about how his new song 2004 came to be. He described the producer encouraging him to rap about something he had never told anyone before. So when the beat played… the first line of the song was born:

“When I was young I got r@ped… by a b*tch that was twice my age.”

On the moment he realized what he experienced wasn’t okay, he said,

“As you grow up… you go through life and see and learn stuff… it’s like, ‘Nah, that was… I got r@ped.’”

YG explained that after sharing his story, other men in his life started opening up too:

“90 percent of the people I played it for, the men, the males, they all got similar stories. That was the conversation everybody was having. It was like, ‘Yeah, like I was s*xually abu$ed.’ And it’s like, ‘Yeah, but for us, we men, so it ain’t treated the same way!’”

He added,

“Everybody got their story, and that’s why I made the record… to influence people to tell their stories. Especially coming from an artist, somebody like me, it’s unexpected.”

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