NBA YoungBoy Remixes Skillibeng’s ‘Whap Whap’: Listen

NBA YoungBoy appears to be a big fan of Dancehall’s ‘Fresh Prince’ Skillibeng.  Over the weekend, the 22-year-old American rapper briefly released a remix to Skillbeng’s March 10 track Whap Whap on YouTube, but he has since pulled the song off the platform.

Update: The song is once again available on YoungBoy’s YouTube account.

The 2:33-minute long remix featured on the Wizical Beatz-produced riddim, following a similar concept of mayhem and gunplay as the original track. YoungBoy ‘Never Broke Again’ also added some Jamaican dialect in parts of the song – rapping in verses, “Boop Boop, gunsmoke my town, police dem a come, stupid bloodcla@t…” while playing heavily on the hook, “whap whap whap whap whap whap whap.”

YoungBoy has had four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, and is best known for his songs Genie, Untouchable, Valuable Pain and Outside Today.

Since its release, Whap Whap featuring F.S., which now sits at over 6 million YouTube views, has been positively received by audiences abroad. Earlier this month during his U.K. tour, Skillibeng erupted a massive crowd at the O2 Forum in London when he performed the track.

Back home, however, the Dancehall star, 25, was scrutinized yet again for releasing another ‘nonsense song’. Skilli countered and said it was part of his music-making strategy when he spoke to Ras Kwame of London’s Capital XTRA in early April.  The Crocodile Teeth deejay contended that his fans don’t appreciate his better-written music as much as they do tracks that he has laced with catchy jabber and unintelligible phrases.

“I’ve been doing good music,” he said. “I have so much good music that people stop embracing.  Why you stop embracing the good music then?  I have so much good music.  Embrace the good music then.  It is the exact point need to be made bro because why don’t you embrace the music?  Why do I do Crocodile Teeth (its) at 35 million and Mr. Universe is like stuck at 10 million?”

The Brik Pon Brik artist is on a roll these days, snapping up collabs with several international artists including Nicki Minaj and Bobby Shmurda, who appeared on remixes of Crocodile Teeth.  Rapper Rich The Kid also jumped on a remix of Skilli’s 2Gyal, following their collaboration with Jay Critch on Real Boss.   

Skilli has also collaborated with Shatta Wale on Blow Up, and Stefflon Don on Stefflon Don, off his debut album Crocodile Teeth.