STAY DANGEROUS
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STAY DANGEROUS
Stay Dangerous is the third studio album by American rapper YG. It was released on August 3, 2018. The album features guest appearances from 2 Chainz, ASAP Rocky, Ty Dolla Sign, Quavo, Mozzy, Jay 305, Big Sean, YoungBoy Never Broke Again and Nicki Minaj. Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Filled with numbing vulgarity, warmed-over nostalgia, and actual nursery rhymes, YG’s third studio album is a mindless step backward.
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Rolling Stone
The man who gave the world “FDT” hooks back up with longtime collaborator DJ Mustard for an album that’s fun and soul-searching without diluting his political edge.
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Consequence of Sound
Though it doesn’t quite reach the heights of his first two, his new album, Stay Dangerous, is another solid project from one of the best on the West Coast.
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SPIN
YG’s solid Stay Dangerous reveals the personal side of his West Coast formula.
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Hip Hop DX
YG's "STAY DANGEROUS" never establishes its identity.
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Pop Matters
Compton's YG offers up Stay Dangerous, an often disappointing return to gangster rap fundamentals with patchy production.
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DJ Booth
The album reveals itself to be the story of a rapper who isn’t a product of his environment, but the son of a home that raised him.
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XXL
While the brief glimpses of his personal life aren't quite enough to elevate the project, it's worthwhile to hear him breezing over Mustard beats once again.
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The 405
YG tries to Stay Dangerous but plays it a bit too safe.
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Slant
There’s a weariness beneath the surface of YG’s Stay Dangerous, which takes a step back from the topical.
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The Guardian
– solid gangsta rap keeps it blood simple.
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The Ratings Game
YG is really good at dropping solid music; nothing that blows you away, just solid music. With that being said, as a listener, I don’t think you can hate “Stay Dangerous,” but I also don’t think you’re going to be in a rush to play it again after you listen to it.
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Nerdy Scoop
Stay Dangerous provides different faces of YG from being a father, a friend, a rapper, a symbol, a blood affiliate and also a businessman. It’s clear that some sides of YG shine brighter than the other, but overall YG delivers one of the hardest hitting albums of 2018.
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The Fader
Approaching his tenth year as one of L.A’s most popular rappers, YG struggles to balance his past styles with the current mainstream on his third studio album.
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LA Times
On “Stay Dangerous,” though, YG returns to the fundamentals of street life, with tersely (if wittily) phrased songs about brutality, sex, money and power.
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Stereogum
YG has one of rap’s great voices, a self-assured and playful husky boom. And on Stay Dangerous, he sounds calm and casual, like he’s having fun. He’s got the tough-guy dirtbag charisma to pull it off.
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UPROXX
Stay Dangerous isn’t YG’s most insightful or introspective work so far, but it might be his most honest and his most confident.
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The Musical Hype
YG serves a hearty helping of hard-nosed, West Coast and trap-infused bangers on his third studio album, Stay Dangerous.
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New York Times
- it revels in lushness, owning its smooth funk legacy and extending it to the present day . . .
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Hot New Hip Hop
"Stay Dangerous" doesn't quite approach the near-perfection of YG's first two albums, but his looseness and maturation make for an essential listen.
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All Music
More functional than creative, Stay Dangerous recalls -- with a 2018 perspective -- the predominantly callous spirit of the early mixtapes.
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Highsnobiety
YG’s ‘Stay Dangerous’ Is a Blood Red Ode to Recklessness.
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Spectrum Culture
YG’s third full-length mainly concerns itself on displaying the rapper’s pop instincts in both sound and technique.
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Entertainment Weekly
On Stay Dangerous, YG remains the reigning champion of Compton.
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Northern Transmissions
Though much of its production is fairly boring, YG compensates and then some for it.
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Beat
YG’s third album stays true to its name. This is west coast rap at its finest: vigilant, remorseless, and at the heart of the party.
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The Ringer
The Compton MC isn’t the biggest rapper in the world. But at any given moment on his new album, ‘Stay Dangerous,’ he sounds like the best.
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Revolt
Stay Dangerous is on the cusp of menacing, at the least. At its most, it's startling, but never bold enough to be as dangerous that its namesake implies.
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Amino
This is the album of the year.
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Stereoboard
It's a record that, despite impressive moments, demonstrates how he has struggled to find a distinctive musical voice in a highly saturated hip-hop scene
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AV Club
On YG’s third record, “stay dangerous” is at once a life lesson and a creed, something the Compton rapper seems dead-set on.
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