Young Thug thread

It's nearly 90 minutes and it's consistently good. Thug's verses are really sharp and focused, especially compared to some of the leftovers that have surfaced this year. Quan hasn't wowed me on the first couple of listens, but he brings a lot of heart. It's just a really balanced tape.

Quan steals "freestyle"

So we were at the club until 1:35 a.m. when the lights came up and the DJ announced Young Thug wasn't showing. Said Thug decided to go St. Louis and it was his fault and the promoter's fault but not the club's fault, so we didn't get a refund on our $40 cover. I had a ton of fun so I can't complain too much, but that's a lot of time and money to spend on a Monday night not to see Young Thug.

when you mentioned that show earlier today, i went looking to try to figure out where he was at. saw the ad on his twitter. i don't know anything about that club or Milwaukee on a Monday night but that thing looked like a no-show waiting to happen.

this tape YT is slightly more consistent and engaging that his usual tape standard. Sounds like he's waking up from a long coma on Bullets hook though. Quan's drowsy keyless crooning gets bit tiresome. All the beats on here sound the same.

Non throwaways:

See You
Flava
730
Tell Em (Lies)
Pull Up

that sucks abt the show. yeah same type of sitch when hes supposed to be in Connecticut..may go see lil durk instead which is at least at a legitimate venue

this tape sounds great btw

I'd seen Gucci Mane and Young Scooter shows there without a problem, and there were plugs for the show on Young Thug's various social media feeds, so even at 1 a.m. it didn't dawn on me he wasn't gonna show. What's crazy is how little the audience cared. Nobody booed or was all that pissed (even with the DJ bad mouthing Thug). Everybody contently filed out without making a stink about it.

Travis Scott Stan didn't even mention the best record

lol raccoon tanuki of all people has nailed my issues with young thug and rich homie quan

lex is there an Atlanta rapper to emerge in the past few years you are particularly enthused about?

I forgot if lex likes or hates Waka

likes him iirc but I'll use waka as the cutoff point. post-waka

the high waka mark

I'm gonna waka way from this thread.

i love waka

do rae sremmurd count? v into them

i like future well enough without being enraptured by him like everyone else

is it normal to put out a tape to promote a tour cause its a good idea and a win-win

this tape is full of jams

tape rules obv

one of the supposed tourdates is at the arena in baltimore, which seems unlikely but then boosie played there over the summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmafIzCxJRk

xp you should pitch a review of that somewhere some dude

yeah will prob try to see/write about the show. it's pretty late in the tour though, by that point it should prolly be apparent whether it's a must-see show or not.

nice/weird to hear "who's on top" near the end of this thing

new board descrip

This really is the 2014 tentpole release he needed. It slots right along with ICFN2 and 1017 Thug as one of those important career marker tapes

Christgau going ham on Young Thug-related material: Migos, Rich Gang, etc

https://medium.com/cuepoint/robert-christgau-expert-witness-4c968a6da17b

o gosh

he has bad taste in young thug

+doesnt get future

I like Black Portland but not as much as The lag∞n Mixtape

thank you w/o my fans i wld be nothing

lmao did he call Kanye's "I Won" verse 'genius'

omg...

ur right

Black portland somehow becoming the signature thug album is so weird

is that true in an other than chrisbro sense

yeah even when it was his most widely reviewed project at the time there was a whole tone of "we're talking about this because it's the first thing he dropped since Stoner/Danny Glover, it's not a major or representative release." i can't tell if Christgau never caught that vibe or is just rebelling against it.

he's mentioned it several times all year, so for him it was likely "first release I loved is the first one I love"

album of the year, he said in an interview or someplace

people who continue to hold up "Picachu" as a key Young Thug song for years to come are gonna be like people who are way too into Lil Wayne's "I Feel Like Dying"

that's a good comparison

it's an astounding song but he has a half dozen as good/better

yeah both great songs that are kinda left field/not core

tho tbh im not that into picachu

is that true in an other than chrisbro sense

― lag∞n, Friday, October 10, 2014 11:12 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in the real world, no; for critics, yes

i always thought picachu was annoying and i think people are into it for its "weirdness" like he's just shouting random words or whatever
which, tbf, he is, but the weirdness unto itself appreciation of young thug is kind of annoying imo

it's one of his best & most coherent hooks, lyrically

i just mean 'my diamonds they say picachu' isn't the most clever hook, people just like the random reference

a song called “Molly Workin’” has to hook harder than this one to make me forget that molly generates more fellatio providers than normally occur in nature.

this fuckin guy

i just mean 'my diamonds they say picachu' isn't the most clever hook, people just like the random reference

― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, October 10, 2014 3:48 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

well that part is sort of a non sequitur but everything that comes after that is just a pretty digestible modern rap hook constructed & delivered in a way that is very singular

yeah but if he hadn't used the word picachu no one would single it out