iLL Youth by PBMSleezy

This mixtape is the debut project of American Rapper PBMSleezy. Recorded over several years across different locations across Illinois, iLL Youth combines elements of brotherhood (HeLL Hounds, iLLinois, Travel Team), conscious and therapeutic hip hop (on tracks like iLL Truth, mentaLLy iLL, and iLL Advised) and jazz/R&B (I Was aLL About you, the outro to Mobbin’ (On My Block), and the sparkling brass sections within the final track of the album, ConcLusions. iLL Youth embraces a blatant rejection of modern societies expectations of how one should or shouldn’t be, boldly stating that “trusting in the news would be iLL Advised” and also the very quotable chorus to iLL Truth which states, “the iLL Truth is society is clueless.” Also prevalent within the narrative are stories involving another rapper, the co-founder of Playboy Mafia Records, PBMBuggy. In Fine Wine (InterLude) the rapper states, “we been through tough times, sittin in jail sippin wine like we dinin’ fine but we just passin’ time” which was a description of his time in Fayette County Jail, where the two spent the beginning of 2021 together following a series of charges stemming from a bar fight in Vandalia, Illinois. A number of tracks across this album have been featured on the radio show called Birdhouse radio, hosted by DJ Chill. Every song on the mixtape is accompanied by a video on YouTube. All fifteen songs each represent a piece of a much larger story in which one could only listen to truly understand. As said in Introductory Statement: “There hasn’t been a better night before, to tune in.”

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