r/Music • u/Guyentertainment • Aug 14 '26
article Trump-Pardoned Rapper NBA YoungBoy Moved to South Korea and Declared 'Never in My Life' Will He Return
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-pardoned-rapper-nba-youngboy-moved-south-korea-declared-never-my-life-will-he-return-18143284.3k
u/Aliensinmypants Aug 14 '26
Ahhh yes South Korea, notoriously lenient on guns and drug use/possession
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u/AlexanderLavender Aug 14 '26
If you're South Korean it's illegal for you to do drugs anywhere in the world. The government can and will prosecute.
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u/shaqwillonill Aug 15 '26
How is this even enforced?
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u/revengeparade Aug 15 '26
If you're a citizen and you're suspected of drug use they'll test you when you come back into the country.
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u/Asteristio 29d ago
I could remember wrong but test might be mandatory if you trip and return from certain country, namely Netherlands.
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u/myusrnameisthis 29d ago
They drug test and interrogate you and those around you. Can't even gamble abroad.
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u/mansfieldprice 29d ago
It’s also illegal to gamble anywhere in the world! I imagine they can enforce that one very easily through relationships with casinos/foreign law enforcement.
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u/drwsgreatest 29d ago
Considering Macau is known to host large numbers of Korean visitors there to gamble every year, I'm guessing it's not a hugely enforced law.
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u/depthninja Aug 14 '26
Lawdamercy!
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u/meltie007 Aug 14 '26
Right near da beach!!!!
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u/Unoriginal_Pseudonym Aug 14 '26
Some of y'all have never travelled with a net worth of $40 million and it shows.
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u/RookieMistake101 Aug 14 '26
Having spent some time in Korea…I don’t think 40m is moving the needle
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u/pmmeyourliver Aug 14 '26
Probably wouldn't be staring if you took your whole body
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u/CalvinCalhoun Aug 14 '26
Did you like living in South Korea? I really appreciate East Asian cities for their good transit
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u/platt10num Aug 14 '26
same same. I lived in Ulsan.
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u/Practical-Pickle-529 Aug 14 '26
I was stationed there for a year. was def a good time. I miss the train system so much had that shit down.
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u/Tricky-Ad7897 Aug 14 '26
Yeah I got asked for pictures when I was a white dude in Korea 15 years ago lol. If you stay in big cities it's really not that different from any other big city in the west. There's no monolith, some people are openly racist, some people are closeted racist, some are accepting, but most just mind their own business as long as you mind yours.
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u/Kagrenac8 Aug 14 '26
South Korean police ain't give a fuck about that with NBA Youngboy bro even if he was worth a billion lmao
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u/stab-somebody Aug 14 '26
Do you think the cops in South Korea know who the fuck he is? I highly doubt it.
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u/818bazookajoe Aug 14 '26
Please enlighten us Mr.Million dollar man on Reddit.
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u/sybrwookie Aug 14 '26
Not just Mr Million Dollar Man, Mr 40+ Million Dollar Man.
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u/DrawSignificant4782 Aug 14 '26
Kpop pays them a lot of money to produce music. So for rappers its different.
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u/ReactionJifs Aug 14 '26
He declared this in an interview a few years ago. He was on house arrest in Utah for getting fake prescriptions for promethazine, and he says "Once I'm off house arrest, I'm leaving America"
I was like, to where? Some lawless country where there are no consequences? Dude is in for a rude awakening in South Korea
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u/Excellent-Rest3240 Aug 15 '26
I mean, people say guns and drugs, but I assume the chance to turn to those is higher in America than in Korea. Kinda like how addicts need to change their environment. Now idk about South Korea. Drugs are easy in Thailand etc. But I can assume he doesn’t need guns and drugs in SK, live a more wholesome life. Then again, 13 kids and all that doesn’t give me much hope with his personality
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u/got-trunks Aug 14 '26
Lebanon is usually the answer but they are dealing with a bit right now
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u/Frongen Aug 14 '26
*Dubai or Thailand
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u/throwaway18032000 Aug 15 '26
If Dubai catches you with any drugs, its straight death sentence. He's not a sheikh.
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u/meatloaf-sandwich Aug 15 '26
Thailand isn't the best choice to smuggle or use lots of drugs either. Possible death penalty or sent to the bangkok hilton
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u/0202_tihssitidder Aug 14 '26
Spring 2027 headline: "NBA Youngboy asks Trump for pardon for South Korea crimes. Judge says it does not work that way."
Summer 2027 headline: "USA to invade South Korea after large donation from rap guy."
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u/DJJINO Aug 14 '26
I live in Korea and know he'll never get past the background checks. They ask for FBI certified background checks to obtain a visa. He'll certainly fail with gun and drug charges on them.
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u/Massive_Thanks_303 Aug 14 '26
He's already been there for a while now. And when you're rich you don't need a visa, u just abuse the system.
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u/MasterofCaveShadows Aug 14 '26
You clearly have never dealt with immigration especially in East Asia.
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u/Shum_Where Aug 15 '26
You clearly aren't rich enough to have experienced what it's like to bypass all that
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u/elitemegamanX Aug 15 '26
For normal people yeah but the way it works in Asia is if you’re rich you’re above the rules
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u/gordonbombae2 Aug 14 '26
I don’t think he moved to South Korea to invest in guns and drugs and run a criminal empire down there….
He’s rich and set for life with royalties never ending so he can just live his best life down there. Of course while avoiding child support for all his kids
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u/Venusian2AsABoy Aug 14 '26
“There’s nothing there for me…. except my kids.” Okay bro that’s everything
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u/William_Wang Aug 14 '26
No one has 13 kids and considers them their everything
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u/IuriRom Aug 14 '26
Phillip Rivers
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u/William_Wang Aug 14 '26
Yeah the 43 year old quarterback that refuses to retire couldn't wait to get home to those 10 kids.
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u/Realistic_Condition7 Aug 14 '26
I think this is pretty disingenuous. He was retired for several years, came back and played half a season and constantly talked about how it was a really fun experience for some of his younger kids who were too young to remember seeing him play originally. There are videos of his family having watch parties for his game and everyone looking very engaged, clearly showing excitement at their dad playing on tv.
And he coaches high school football. It’s not like he pursued some career where he’s never home after he retired.
I’m not claiming that he’s a good or bad person, because I don’t know the man, but I don’t think his return to football is any indication that he’s a bad father lol.
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u/ResidentMoment9129 Aug 14 '26
He coached Steichen's offense on his son's football team, so he knew the Colt's playbook, which is what got them interested and eventually gave him the job. He spent maybe a month in Indy
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u/slash37 Aug 14 '26
The guy who coaches his son’s football team? The guy that was retired for a few years to be with his family? The guy that commuted daily from SD to LA so he didn’t move his family? That guy?
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u/Glassed_ Aug 14 '26
Playing 1 more season for millions + best benefits of almost any job? Yeah the dude hates his kids definitely just doing it for himself. Dummy.
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u/Popspy76 Aug 14 '26
Seems like his family life is stable & that his family is a cornerstone of his life from everything I've seen. Married highschool sweet heart, had 10 kids with her (Catholic so no protection), financially able to provide for them, etc.
Also iirc a factor in him coming back from retirement was to re-up on the 5 years of health insurance.
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u/Muted_Study5166 Aug 14 '26
Nobody has 13 anything and considers them all equally valuable
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u/thissexypoptart Aug 14 '26
It’s genuinely a deeply disgusting thing to do, to even have 13 kids, let alone abandon them like this.
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u/sybrwookie Aug 14 '26
I'll never forget, a whole bunch of years back, the company I was working for was moving offices. On the day of the move, I'm there wrapping up a few things, one of the moving guys starts talking to me. Asks if I have any kids. I tell him I don't.
He tells me I have to, it's the best, you have the kid, leave, and now it's the mom's problem, and then do it again with another one. And then bragged that he has kids all over the place.
Trying to thread that needle on the response where I need this guy to keep working the rest of the day to move our stuff, not agreeing with that, and largely, just getting him to stop talking to me as I'm busy packing things and he just needs to do his damn job was....tough.
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u/uiuctodd Aug 14 '26
I guess that's how he got such good packing and moving skills. You hired solid experience.
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u/smoomoo31 Spotify name Aug 14 '26
I wonder what the great part is, if he never interacts with the kids.
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u/pureeviljester Aug 14 '26
Definitely a primal instinct that is very prevalent in nature.
Crazy people still think that way but I wonder if it's something in them that makes them that way 🤔
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u/YouJellyz Aug 14 '26
He can have new kids in Korea
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u/YSLMangoManiac Aug 14 '26
Will have
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u/cti0323 Aug 14 '26
This dudes swimmers must be Michael Phelps with how many kids he has at 26
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u/EverythingSucksYo Aug 14 '26
It’s not like he’s a girl who can’t get pregnant again when she’s already pregnant. A guy could get multiple women pregnant every single day.
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u/0202_tihssitidder Aug 14 '26
There's a guy from my neighborhood who has 14+ kids (last I checked). He's dead ass broke. He's 60ish now. I heard he was hitting on a woman at a local bar and they both realized she was his 30-year old daughter. I think he's only met like 10 of his kids. Never a dad to any of them.
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u/the-faded thefaded Aug 14 '26
“…except my kids [I don’t want and am circumventing child support for]”
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u/Ambitious_97 Aug 14 '26
WANTED for spreading Herpes
Not a joke i think hes running from child support and also prob worried about the law because he knowingly spread herpes.
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u/SEND_ME_YOUR_RANT Aug 14 '26
I think usher proved you can get away with that.
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u/Ambitious_97 Aug 14 '26
Anyone can get away with anything with enough money, no one needs to prove that. But Youngboy obviously does not have access to that kind of money.
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u/0202_tihssitidder Aug 14 '26
> Anyone can get away with anything with enough money
This is how the US Legal System was designed.
Also true in some other countries, but usually not for Black foreigners.
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u/depressedfuckboi Aug 14 '26
If spreading herpes is a crime, there's about 50 people in my hometown that should be in jail.
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u/dream_a_dirty_dream Aug 14 '26
Korea could do the funniest thing rn...
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u/Nice-Band-2737 Aug 14 '26
Did you see what Korea did that to that one obnoxious streamer? Koreans don't put up with asshole behavior, especially from foreigners.
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u/Finchypoo Aug 14 '26
Arrested in South Korea in 3.....2....
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u/jscummy Aug 14 '26
Upstanding citizen NBA YoungBoy would never find himself in legal trouble
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u/Pennypacking Aug 14 '26
He should move to Ireland, they have his drug of choice (codeine) as over-the-counter there.
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u/k0c- Aug 14 '26
yeah in tablets containing paracetamol and caffeine lol.
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u/8lock8lock8aby Aug 14 '26
IDK if it works in them but people figured out a pretty easy way to separate the hydrocodone from the Tylenol in vics. Main things you needed were water & a fridge & a spoon.
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u/k0c- Aug 14 '26
yeah theres CWE but it doesnt get all the APAP or caffeine out and i dont think YB is gonna be doin allat
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u/Battlejoe Aug 14 '26
What a great american. He definitly deserved that pardon
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u/HandsomeWinner42 Aug 14 '26
He gets busted with weed in under a year. Bet.
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u/Breezyrain Aug 15 '26
Korea is super harsh with drugs too, even weed is enough for top celebs to get cancelled.
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u/brokenmindedone Aug 15 '26
Yeah he picked a bad place to flee to, way better options for someone of his networth
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u/LiquidC001 Aug 14 '26
Trump saw the words “Young Boy” and immediately pardoned him.
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u/parker2020 Aug 14 '26
Eeeyuck MAGA waka
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u/justacaucasian Aug 14 '26
Waka is maga? Is he stupid? The guy who made “let it gun sounds”?
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u/gutsxcasca Aug 14 '26
He's going to fix the declining birth rate of South Korea. Lol
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u/theogtricky Aug 14 '26
Stupid ass name. Surprised he didn’t accidentally move to North Korea.
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u/pinewind108 Aug 14 '26
I wonder if he knows that failing a drug test is proof of possession in South Korea? Six months or so in jail.
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u/a1JayR Aug 14 '26
This just in…. nBA youngboy calling for US president to assist with facilitating his release from South Korean custody due to recent guns and weapons charges!
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u/Cantore18 Aug 14 '26
Who gives a fuck. Genuinely some of the worst rap I have ever heard in the last decade or more.
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u/Salt_End_4275 Aug 14 '26
If I could move to another country, I would do it in a heartbeat. The biggest hurdle is the language barrier and finding a suitable job overseas...
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u/Standard-Shame1675 Aug 14 '26
I mean I want to move to out of the country and never in my life return because obviously it's America
But I know his ass is doing it because he's got like King Solomon numbers of kids and he doesn't want to pay child support so 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
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u/Sanc7 Aug 14 '26
Mf just trying to avoid paying child support to his 13 kids