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title: "YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s ‘Finest’ video puts the Baton Rouge rapper in a church with fire dancers"
url: https://badiyaa.com/youngboy-never-broke-again-finest-video/
published: 2026-11-15T14:48:00+00:00
modified: 2026-11-15T14:48:00+00:00
section: Entertainment
publisher: Badiyaa
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# YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s ‘Finest’ video puts the Baton Rouge rapper in a church with fire dancers

YoungBoy Never Broke Again released Finest on YouTube on May 22, 2025, a church-set video with fire dancers from his album MASA.

YoungBoy Never Broke Again dropped “Finest” on his own YouTube channel a full day before it reached any streaming service, and the Rozay Evans-directed video, set inside a church with dancers spinning fire, is circulating again this weekend in a popular hip-hop forum on Reddit.

The Baton Rouge rapper, born Kentrell Gaulden, surprise-released the song and video on May 22, 2025. Streaming platforms got it on May 23, as a promotional single for his album *MASA*.

## A church, fire dancers and a tribute

The visual places Gaulden inside a church in a posture of repentance while backup dancers stage a fire performance around him. It also folds in footage and photographs from his own life, and it closes with a tribute to Quando Rondo, an artist signed to his Never Broke Again label.

That contrast is the whole point of the clip. The fire is spectacle; the pews and the archive footage are confession. It mirrors a track that critics heard as one of his most exposed: a slower, soulful beat in place of the usual pressure-cooker production.

## The people behind the track

- **Producers:** Cheese (Jason Goldberg) and JB Sauced Up (Jeremy Bradley Jr.).

- **Writers:** Kentrell Gaulden, Jason Goldberg and Jeremy Bradley Jr.

- **Mixing:** Henry8; Cheese also handled mastering.

- **Labels:** Never Broke Again and Motown.

- **Length:** 3 minutes 21 seconds.

Gaulden is also credited with engineering his own vocals, a detail that fits an artist known for recording at a relentless pace.

## How it landed

The music press singled it out. One major US chart publication’s critic named “Finest” the best song on *MASA* and called it “a gut-wrenching song, and one of YB’s best in years.” Another review described a sense of “the walls [are] closing in” on the rapper.

On the charts, “Finest” peaked at No. 22 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs list and at No. 16 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100, the 25-place chart of songs just outside the main Hot 100. In plain terms, that means it sat roughly 116 places from the top of the all-genre singles ranking at its best, while cracking the top 25 of the rap and R&B chart.

## Why a 2025 video is back

YoungBoy’s fan base treats his YouTube channel as the main event, which is why a video released there first keeps resurfacing whenever listeners trade favorites. His long list of collaborations keeps him in rotation too; he appears on [Toosii’s Platinum Heart 2](https://badiyaa.com/toosii-platinum-heart-2-album-tour/) alongside Hunxho. Fans who want more of the genre can browse our [Entertainment section](https://badiyaa.com/category/entertainment/).

The official video remains on YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s YouTube channel, where it was first posted on May 22, 2025.

## Further reading

- [Wikipedia: Finest (song)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finest_(song))

*Image: getmahesh, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons*

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