This week marks 11 years since the release of YG’s classic album My Krazy Life. An album that was created to be the inverse of a previous West Coast classic, good kid, m.A.A.d city. Both albums stamped by hometown references from Spruce St. to Rosecrans Ave.
At Rolling Loud 2025, YG’s closing set on Saturday felt like the inverse of Playboi Carti’s Sunday performance. The way the Zig-Zag crowd recited “BPT” and “I Just Wanna Party”, the night felt like a backyard party with the grill smoking and the bounce house swinging in the front yard’s patch of grass at the peak of L.A.’s summertime heat.
With timeless-hometown music still ringing, we got to asking our friends at Rolling Loud “What music reminds you of your hometown?”
Derrick Milano
Philadelphia songwriter and rising solo artist, Derrick Milano, was a special guest during DJ Five Venom’s set. The Grammy-winning songwriter has credits in Megan The Stallion & Beyonce’s “Savage” and Cardi B’s “Press” to name a few. We caught up with him after his performance on Saturday.
Derrick Milano: I’m gonna have to say ‘Dreams and Nightmares’ by Meek. Philly.
Tony: What’s one song you look forward to performing?
Derrick: ‘Beauty Pageant’. It’s just fly. I feel like I’m a fly person. You see how I came? I got the Karl Kani on. You know what I’m saying? It just represents me as a person and an artist.
JayDon
The young Inglewood star 310babii brought out Mega’s latest signee, 17-year old JayDon. The teens performed their latest collaboration “Ah! Ah!” at the festival’s main stage early Saturday afternoon.
JayDon: A song that reminds me of my hometown? How it go? ‘Wake me up in traffic. Fell asleep at the wheel. Wake me up in traffic.’ Shout out 03.
Bootleg Kev
Before Home Grown Radio was on a radio station, Bootleg Kev and DJ Hed were once co-hosts going viral for Haiti Babii freestyles. It was great reminiscing with Kev on those times, and on the current music that connects his hometown to the city Kev currently resides in.
Kev: Right now there’s a song by Alexcis and Rowdy Racks. It’s called ‘Call Me Baby’. That’s getting played on the radio. That’s dope, shout out to Alexcis.
Sid Shyne
Altanta’s Sid Shyne brought the energy to Rolling Loud, the perfect preparation to what Carti brought later that Sunday. He started a matinee moshpiti by sampling Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” then powered by an electric guitar, we had to ask Sid what songs he’s rooted in.
Sid Shyne: I got two hometowns. Atlanta. My first hometown. When I think of Atlanta, I just think of creativity for real. I feel like we, the trendsetters, we really got the culture.
Tony: Your second hometown, who is it?
Sid: Second hometown is Lagos, Nigeria. I grew up listening to like D’Banj and P-Square.But as of right now, Asake, Burna Boy, Wizkid, Davido, they running it.
This past weekend, Rolling Loud was the soundtrack to our hometown.