Genius recently invited NBA YoungBoy to help profile his Al YoungBoy single "Untouchable" for the website's Verified segment. As YoungBoy explains it, the song happened to be the last he recorded before getting locked up in 2016 and wound up being the first his team wanted him to attend to upon his release. The addition of a second verse and a pre-summer release of a video for the track, and two and a half months later it has registered 41 million Youtube views.
In breaking the song down NBA YoungBoy recalls the upbringing that inspired its lyrics. He touches on times when he had to remind himself that the family may have had no food in the fridge but had a roof over their heads, times when his behavior put his mother through stress, his early exit from school and yearning to return so that his younger brother can see that he completed what he started. "Untouchable" is the kind of autobiographical song helps listeners bond with the artist based on personal experiences they may share.
"S**t, just life lessons. The challenges. The everyday life in this f**king state made me who I am. Standing up, being strong. My situations I went through made me who I am," YoungBoy told Genius, while summing up the gist of the record. But as much as it is a song in which the Louisiana rapper embraces his beginnings, it is also a song that signifies his need to leave that past behind for the success that awaits him. "[Baton Rouge] did make a part of me. But honestly, that part of me that it made, I don’t want that shit no more,” he says.
