The real reason YoungBoy didn't break again came down to Utah

YoungBoy Never Broke Again moved to a mansion in Huntsville, Utah in 2022 to get away from it all after being sentenced to house arrest in a gun case in Louisiana in 2020. The change of locations was initially well-intentioned, but ended badly after YB was recently arrested and sentenced to almost two years in prison after being hit with fraud charges with firearms and prescription drugs. But how did YB end up in Utah in the first place?

The answer is deeper than one might think and it has its roots when the rapper was in high school. Then, in sixth grade at Baton Rouge's Capital Middle School, YB participated in an AmeriCorps program for kids with indicators that they might not graduate from high school, according to KSL.com. There she was paired with counselor Kyrie Garcia, who took a liking to the pre-teen.

“He's funny. He's funny. He's a prankster… He would prank my roommate and go throw water on him, like he's just a funny kid,” Garcia tells KSL.

Garcia eventually became YB's godmother. When the program ended, he visited Garcia in her hometown in Utah.

“It was the first time he had ever been on a plane or out of the south,” Garcia added. “[His mother]saw it as a good opportunity to see my different situation, to see a different way of life.”

YoungBoy would visit Garcia for Thanksgiving and Christmas. She even had plans to move to Utah to be with Garcia before his high school rap career exploded. So when the rapper was placed under house arrest in 2022, his lawyer asked to be allowed to move to the well-known Utah sanctuary where he stayed for two years until his arrest in April.

“I just want people to see Kentrell as a human being, and there's a whole other side to these things … he's human and he's got a good heart,” Garcia said.

Last week, the NBA YoungBoy was officially sentenced to 23 months in prison and five years of probation after pleading guilty to gun charges in Louisiana and Utah. Last month, he received a suspended sentence and a $25,000 fine after pleading guilty to prescription drug fraud charges.