''Savage Life 4'' is the fourth

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by American rapper

Webbie Webster Gradney Jr. (born September 6, 1985) who performs under the mononym Webbie, is an American rapper. He has been signed to the independent Trill Entertainment label since 2003. In 2005 he came into the hip hop scene with "Gimme That" fe ...

. The album was released on November 19, 2013, by

Trill Entertainment Torence Ivy Hatch Jr. (born November 14, 1982), better known by his stage name Boosie BadAzz or simply Boosie (formerly Lil' Boosie), is an American rapper. Hatch began rapping in the 1990s as a member of the Southern hip hop collective Concentr ...

. The album features

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s from

Lil Phat "Independent" is the first single by Webbie from his second album '' Savage Life 2''. It features Lil Phat and Lil Boosie and a sample of Webbie's "Bad Bitch" in the chorus. Rapper Macklemore would later sample "Independent" on his #1 hit, "Can' ...

, Lloyd, Blake and Lil Trill.

Singles

On April 16, 2013, the album's first single "What I Do" was released. On May 20, 2013, the music video was released for "What I Do". On October 8, 2013, the album's second single "Bad Bitch 2" was released. On November 19, 2013, the music video was released for "Bad Bitch 2".

Critical reception

Upon its release ''Savage Life 4'' was met with generally mixed reviews from

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s. David Jeffries of

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gave the album two and a half stars out of five, saying "No dirty, C-Murder-like album this time out as the rapper offers his prom song 2013 nomination with the sweet and sugary "Realest," and speaking of high school, "Big" comes on with a Freshman-caliber marching band for its backbeat and offers motivational lyrics to support the home team's annual highlight reel. Hopefully, the coach and his selection committee don't stick around for the slice of life called "Mine" ("I'll probably take her home, and let her get her slurp on"), or the slippery strip club track "Too Much," where Webbie discovers his chosen dancer does "take out" ("Playin' hard to get, but I'm gonna get in there and do time/The lady got her own hotel, she don't need mine"), but these gutter-minded songs are the easy and effortless highlights of the effort, coming off as much more natural than the plays for radio. Trim away the fat and there's a lean, and quite mean, mixtape inside this scattershot album."

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number 27 on the ''Billboard'' 200, with first-week sales of 11,918 copies in the United States.

Singles

Critical reception

Commercial performance

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References