With his latest album, 'It's a Ugly Come Up,' the Watts-based rapper is making waves with his mix of introspective lyrical diaries and boundless energy.
ShyBelligerent is hurting. You can see it in his videos, where he paces helplessly through cemeteries and city streets and unfurnished bedrooms. You can hear and feel it in his voice. The 30-year-old rapper born Michael William, who is rail-thin with sharp, angular features and a pencil mustache, is also fearless on the page. He writes about all that’s been done to him, and all that he’s had to do. “I can’t forget about the past,” he wails on his latest album, “It’s a Ugly Come Up.
For a time he sought release and restoration in the classroom . The gridiron was another precious sanctuary; Shy played defensive end on the Compton High football team. Even then, however, he had designs on a rap career; it was around 2009 when he got serious about his craft. L.A. is a networker’s paradise and Shy likes to network, but he didn’t always. His teenage apprenticeship was completely informal and self-supervised. “This was when YG was in his prime,” Shy says.
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