In true NBA YoungBoy fashion, the number of songs he performed at last night’s show in Newark was almost overwhelming. You might feel a sensory overload, but you will never be bored by the Baton Rouge rapper’s compulsion, appetites, or his enduring melancholy that exists in the fog of the music, even when he is being violent, even when he is an egotistical maximalist. At that show, he let adults into his web that the youth currently find irresistible. Packed in an area with people I might have babysat five years ago, YoungBoy was the 2Pac for his generation last night.

Well, sort of, actually: in fairness to all of the critics of YoungBoy’s infamy and music, he’s not the songwriter that Pac is, not the ridiculously charismatic speaker that the son of Afeni was. However, he is born out o

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