Younger Bleed, the Louisiana rapper who turned certainly one of No Restrict Information’ success tales, has died. His eldest son, Ty’Gee Ramon Clifton, shared the information in an Instagram Reel, stating that the musician died on Saturday, November 1. Younger Bleed had been hospitalized for a mind aneurysm following an look at a Verzuz occasion that includes members of No Restrict and Money Cash Information. Younger Bleed was 51 years previous.
Younger Bleed was born Glenn Reed Clifton Jr. in Baton Rouge, and he began rapping when he was 9 years previous. He offered his personal tapes as a youngster and, within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, joined Focus Camp, the native hip-hop group based by fellow Louisiana rapper C-Loc. It was Younger Bleed’s verse on C-Loc’s “A Idiot” that acquired the eye of No Restrict founder and label head Grasp P, who remixed “A Idiot” for the soundtrack to his 1997 movie I’m Bout It, altering the title to “How Ya Do Dat,” and signed Younger Bleed to No Restrict.
Younger Bleed’s main label debut, My Balls and My Phrase, arrived the next yr. The album offered half 1,000,000 copies and topped Billboard’s Hip-Hop/R&B chart. For its follow-up, 1999’s My Personal, Younger Bleed jumped to No Restrict’s distributor, Precedence Information. He was let go from his contract, nonetheless, shortly thereafter. The rapper briefly rebranded to Younger Bleed Carleone’s and, in 2002, dropped Classic as the primary launch on his personal label, Da’tention House Information.
Throughout the remainder of his profession, Younger Bleed remained prolific, persevering with to hop between labels whereas turning into a mentor to a brand new technology of hip-hop. He put out two initiatives—Rise Through da Ranks from Earner Tugh in 2005 and As soon as Upon a Time in Amedica in 2007—on C-Bo’s West Coast Mafia Information, in addition to a number of full-length collaborations with youthful rappers. In 2010, Younger Bleed additionally based the report label Entice Door Leisure, the place he launched 4 whole albums main as much as the final of his lifetime, 2022’s Dare’ Iza’ God.
“Preserved may simply describe Younger Bleed’s loyalty to the dependable sound of his earliest work,” David Drake wrote within the Pitchfork overview of the musician’s 2011 album, which got here out on Tech N9ne’s Unusual Lane. “Bleed emphasizes the individualism, company, and the Aristocracy of the road soldier, weaving a common story of hustle and wrestle by way of implied, writerly particulars and a sixth sense for model.”
