Young Thug thread

The more I play this the more every song on it sounds like a hit. Not a regular hit, of course, more like a song you actually want to listen to in a number of different settings.

This unrequited stalker thing with Lil Wayne is weird,

YT sounding like Lil Wayne
YT wanting to name his album Carter 6
Lil Wayne dissing Thug, saying don't listen to his music, and generally fuck him
Lil Wayne's daughter calling YT a fraud,
YT forcing into not calling his album Carter 6
Appears in video in Birdman's jet
YT calls his album Barter 6
Signs to Birdman's label
First song features Lil Wayne's "father", Birdman

"Never Had It" is my second fav on this so far behind just might be

If Halftime's meant to be a highlight, more meme rap pls

maybe he ran out of hits or accidentally dropped them in the ocean

― lag∞n, Monday, April 20, 2015 3:02 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'speed racer' and 'warrior' and the ocean is actually metroboomin's soundcloud

"sure for a casual listener i get being confused but for a bunch of rap critics to be vexed by the idea of like, album tracks that are also dope?" has anyone actually voiced that opinion?

anyway i like this album a lot more than i did at first, a bit dull in the second through fifth innings-ish but otherwise very good to great

I actually... LIKE this.

"I'll get pretty and fuck your father" is a truly terrifying threat.

^^ Is this a quote from "numbers"? Isn't "i'll get prison and Fuck your father Up"?

I like longneck's version better.

It's from Numbers, yes, and there's some debate about what he's actually saying. There might well be a prison in there, but I'm not sure about why he would "get" it. Not hearing the "up" at all though. He's def going for my father.

to my ears it sounds like longneck's version.

I like this thing as much as his other stuff: there's stuff I skip and total bangers.

It is 100% "get prison" but there's no "up" at the end

"sure for a casual listener i get being confused but for a bunch of rap critics to be vexed by the idea of like, album tracks that are also dope?" has anyone actually voiced that opinion?

anyway i like this album a lot more than i did at first, a bit dull in the second through fifth innings-ish but otherwise very good to great

― soyrev, Thursday, 23 April 2015 01:35 (12 hours ago) Permalink

Yea lots of people have been like "where are the hits"

If Halftime's meant to be a highlight, more meme rap pls

― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Wednesday, April 22, 2015 6:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol I mean

someone jokingly paraphrasing your characterization of their opinions is not evidence for the accuracy of your characterization

B6 is fine but clearly the new Rich Forever that deej is hellbent on canonizing as the artist's masterpiece regardless of what anyone else thinks

Could it be "fuck niggas wishin i get prison I'll fuck your father"? Would make sense.

Lol what? I'm not trying to canonize it as his masterpiece and you can do a quick Twitter search for Barter 6 and the word hits, you're liable to find plenty of people whining about the lack of singles on it there

And I'm def not the only one who thinks rich forever is one of Ross' best projects, where are u even getting that from? Is this your way of bringing back the "chief keef had no influence on anything ever" argument you're curiously invested in?

I didn't just come up with this out of nowhere, like, I saw lots of people from many walks of life complain about the lack of hits. I mean, you can listen to it and hear it actively seems to spurn hit records. Not sure what you're even arguing with

what comedian does a bit where he threatens to seduce your father and make him fall in love with him and destroy his sense of self? it's gotta be louis, right?

Last night at a boosie listening boosie described his song with young thug and a very aggro beat as his "Chicago record"

xp yeah it's a bit called "i hate this one kid" from the beacon theater special

(actual thread-related thought: barter 6 is really good although i havent really dug into thug's mixtapes other than the one with quan so i don't have as many points of comparison)

That kinda makes sense. I've previously argued that "there's something wrong with the pussy" is Thug's version of Seinfeld's big vagina routine.

Ehhhhhh Larry David's I mean. Brainfart.

Yea lots of people have been like "where are the hits"

― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, April 23, 2015 10:05 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah but not at the expense of "album tracks that are also dope." the popular opinion on that has been more like "there are a lot of album tracks here that are not dope (and sound samey); some hits would have been nice."

Sure but these are all dope album tracks so

basically

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

hes wearing his belt-jacket!

the comments section for your review (good read btw) is...something else deej, although that's to be expected considering the crowd

rough interview

link 2 deej review

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/young-thug-is-getting-weirder-and-better-1699533605/+robharvilla

Just read the Pitchfork review and man Garvey is easily one of my favorite critics right now; her reviews for We Invented the Bop, the Future Brown album, and now this are all so on point. Even her blurb for 1989 on the Top 50 Albums list of 2014 was incredible.

Yeah she's great.

@D-40 ah okay, couldn't tell you felt that way

don't love the album as a whole *quite* as much as her, but yes, the Garvey review is really nice. and she even makes space to acknowledge the level "Just Might Be" is on :D

meaghan rules

B6 is fine but clearly the new Rich Forever that deej is hellbent on canonizing as the artist's masterpiece regardless of what anyone else thinks

― Take Off Your Chance and Rapper (some dude), Thursday, April 23, 2015 9:15 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol

I wasn't saying you're the only person who likes either of those records

the lol was you worrying about me canonizing b6

Best New Music/link to that Meaghan Garvey piece (which I thought ws nice bt kinda overreaching, esp once fuckin Halftime reared its dull head again) up on Facebook, dunno if that's anything

(I mean I don't remember if YT getting BNM is impt to Pitchfork politics and doubt that's germane to this thread anyway)

'halftime' is an album centerpiece

the Garvey review is my favorite so far.

"When I put ice on I am sub zero" in

...followed by the lip roll in "Check" is my favorite moment so far.

Lol @ u guys flip flopping after a pitchfork review

you have a heavy bet staked on this guy or sth?

big fan of one's perspective on an album clarifying after reading some good writing about it

CRITICISM