NBA YoungBoy on Funny Marco in South Korea: One or Two Albums. One Last Tour. “Never in My Life” Back to the United States. And a Doctor, He Says, Told Him the Left Side of His Heart Was Swollen.

The episode of Open Thoughts went up August 11, 2026. Funny Marco filmed it in Korea, where Kentrell DeSean Gaulden — NBA YoungBoy, YoungBoy Never Broke Again — has been living with family after months that also took him through Beijing, Norway, Belgium, France. He is 26. He has already outrun most catalogs.

Marco asked if he would move back to America.

“Never in my life.”

He likes Korea because it is out of the way, he said, and because he gets the energy: safe, clean. A visa line in The Independent’s write-up — it cannot be home until they give him the visa — sits next to the never. The children are the tether he still named. USA Today counted at least eleven; the Los Angeles Times has run as high as thirteen. Jazlyn Mychelle is the wife since 2023. The most important thing tying him to the country he will not re-enter, he said, is them. They can travel to him.

The music math

How many albums left?

“One or two.”

Tours?

“One for sure. I’ll go on tour one more time throughout my whole life, and that’s it.”

That is a retirement plan spoken like a man who has already dropped two projects in 2026 — January’s Slime Cry, June’s ML2 — plus the American YoungBoy documentary that cleared a million in a week. Rolling Stone noted he passed E-40 for most Billboard 200 entries by a hip-hop artist. IBTimes floated All Dogs Go to Heaven as a next title before an October birthday; treat that as reportage around the interview, not a locked street date from his mouth on the clip.

Rappers announce retirements the way boxers announce last fights. The tape is still the tape. One or two and one tour is the number he gave while sitting in a country he does not intend to trade back.

The sentence about his chest

Marco asked if he had ever wanted to pull back on the road. YoungBoy said a doctor told him on tour that the left side of his heart was swollen. He told nobody. He finished the dates. He said a side is still enlarged. He put a hand on his chest: that explains the music; she’s hurting.

That is his account. It is not an echocardiogram in this article. It is not a diagnosis code. People who need a medical reading should get one from a physician, not from a podcast. What belongs here is that he connected the swelling to why the songs sound like they sound, and that he worked through a tour without a public medical timeout.

Why “never” is not only geography

A Trump pardon last year wiped remaining federal probation, in the USA Today telling, and he posted that it opened a future he was ready to step into. Years of house arrest, ankle monitors, and Louisiana-to-Utah court maps are the other reason a 26-year-old with that many chart entries would call a foreign city “out the way.” He did not have travel as a kid, he said. He wants the new places. Never is a long word. Visas and children make it a little shorter in practice. He still said it.

What fans should not do with this

Do not eulogize a catalog that still has one or two LPs on the board. Do not turn a swollen-heart line into a gore forum. Do not treat Korea as a stunt if he is still there when the next album lands. He gave a countdown and a country and a chest pain he hid from arenas. The rest is whether the next record sounds like a man who already booked the encore as the last one. He said the encore is the last one. Believe the sentence until he records past it.