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YG performs on the 2025 BET Experience Fan Fest

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Key Takeaways:

• YG’s “LOVERS OR FRIENDS” music video blends Hip Hop and R&B with a moody aesthetic and choreography that displays emotional stress.
• Leon Thomas delivers a heartfelt hook that questions the boundaries between love and friendship.
• The rapper’s forthcoming album, ‘The Gentleman’s Club,’ continues his evolution with introspective themes and glossy visuals.

On Friday (Aug. 1), YG launched “LOVERS OR FRIENDS” and its accompanying music video, in collaboration with Leon Thomas. The observe is the most recent singled from the Compton rapper’s forthcoming album titled The Gentleman’s Club,

The black-and-white video options easy choreography as YG kicks raps about shifting from the buddy zone to a extra romantic stage with a associate. “How we friends, you let me hit it in a taxi / I mean Uber black truck in a backseat,” YG raps. “You wanna keep me as a friend so you can have me / When you and your n**ga don’t work out, cause he a athlete.”

However, by the tip of the file, issues aren’t essentially what they appear. “Are we lovers or are we friends / Please don’t make me have to ask again / Are we lovers or are we friends / Tell me if I have to play pretend,” Thomas sings on the tune’s hook. The bubbly, but funky manufacturing is dealt with by Ty Dolla $ign. And earlier than we overlook to say it, there’s additionally a Michael Jackson impersonator within the Dangy-directed visible.

The Gentleman’s Club is about to launch on Oct. 3. In the meantime, YG has lately dropped a pair of songs in help of the album: “HOLLYWOOD” and “2004.” Both tracks are in that mid-tempo vary that YG thrives in, and their music movies additionally characteristic related black-and-white aesthetics. The uncooked observe “2004” is very highly effective because it options YG rapping candidly about being sexually abused by an older woman when he was simply 14 years previous.

The “BIG BANK” artist’s final album was 2024’s JUST RE’D UP 3, his first solo album after leaving Def Jam Records. Back in March, YG introduced that he was launching his own supplement brand. Compton rappers keep hustling.