YoungBoy Never Broke Again has released AMERICAN YOUNGBOY, the concert film documenting his sold-out 42-date Make America Slime Again arena tour, on Prime Video through Prime Video Direct as of Friday (July 4).
The documentary — directed by Nico Ballesteros and distributed through YoungBoy’s own 38 Heights Film and Productions in partnership with Foundation Media Partners — moves between stage performances, backstage footage and personal moments across a tour that broke the record for the highest-grossing run by a debut headlining rapper. It marks YoungBoy’s first formal venture into filmmaking, and functions as both a concert document and a character study of one of the most prolific and polarising figures in contemporary rap.
The film first hit theatres in April, earning $1.84 million in its opening weekend, with the theatrical premiere selling out screens nationwide. Its arrival on Prime Video makes the film widely accessible for the first time, timed to coincide with the July 4 holiday weekend.
Born Kentrell DeSean Gaulden in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he first appeared on the Billboard 200 in 2017 with the mixtape AI YoungBoy, which debuted at No. 24. In the eight years since, he has charted 34 albums on the Billboard 200 — the most of any rapper in the chart’s history, surpassing E-40’s previous record of 33, a mark E-40 accumulated over nearly three decades.
He has scored four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200: AI YoungBoy 2 (2019), 38 Baby 2 (2020), Top (2020) and Sincerely, Kentrell (2021). In 2020, the back-to-back chart-topping debuts of 38 Baby 2 and Top made him only the second hip-hop act to peak the Billboard 200 three times in a single calendar year.
On the singles side, YoungBoy became the youngest artist in Billboard history to surpass 100 entries on the Hot 100, reaching the milestone at 23 in May 2023. His highest-charting single remains “Bandit” with the late Juice Wrld, which debuted at No. 10 in 2019 and has been certified six-times platinum by the RIAA.
AMERICAN YOUNGBOY is streaming now on Prime Video.
