Brandon Baskaville or more widely known as Yung Bas is a rising superstar who has taken the world by storm at only 16 years of age. He has acquired fame and fortune along the way, but at what cost? Today we will be talking with Yung Bas about the problems he has faced as a young musician and how he has overcome certain challenges within his career and personal life.
Yung bas grew up in Long Beach California, he attended school like a normal kid and would spend his free time in the studio making music. When asked about his life growing up he stated, ‘I was a weird kid, I was different and no one noticed me. I was like a ghost.’ This gap in his childhood where he was alone, was where most of the raw emotion we see today within his music stemmed from. This would also be the time when all the other kids were out playing, he would be inside recording and posting his tracks on SoundCloud where he had a small following of about 100 listeners. Little did he know this was about to change.
On The 13th of November 2019 Yung Bas dropped his hit debut album titled ‘Head High.’ and just like that, overnight he was a worldwide sensation, Gaining millions of followers and views every week. However this is where his troubles began. When asked about his life in the time after this album he stated ‘with fame comes money, with money comes people who want that money for themselves. The day my album blew up I went from nobody, who not a single person would notice or talk to, to everyone’s best friend overnight. I didn’t know any better, I was just happy to have some friends even if they were just using me.’
However, nowadays Bas has learned to keep his real friends close and not let his judgement be clouded by people who claim they have done everything for him. ‘Some people will come up to me and even try as much to guilt trip me into giving them stuff. There was this one time where someone who I thought was my best friend at the time just got up and left one day with my car when he found out I wasn’t taking him with me to Cali for the tour.’
‘Nowadays I just write and wish I was back in that old sweaty studio back at Long Beach, just to escape the fast paced life which I now lead, even just for a second.’
Yung Bas has truly inspired us with his quick rise to fame and his constantly amazing track and we at Hellboy cannot wait to see what the future has in store for him.