Young Thug thread

i thought he was good live but my standards are pretty low.

he rapped over his own recorded vocals which i know bothers a lot of people. levels were a bit off (as usual as rap shows i find) but could hear him rapping along well enough. he mostly did all of those songs in full which i appreciated. he was energetic on stage and leant into the crowd to rap into ppls phone cameras. almost all of those songs are big anthems really so as much about the crowd reaction as anything & it was a total joy hearing a bunch of non-native english speakers rap along. i think people went craziest for 'best friend' which i am only lukewarm on. would certainly recommend to a fan but probably not to someone who didn't already know the songs.

he seemed to run off the stage right after he started 'good times' leaving his dj looking a bit bewildered. he returned after a minute or so and did the 'imma ride in her pussy like a stroller' verse first before looping back to the first section. kind of ruined it for me since that song is really just a build up to that line lol

https://instagram.com/p/-XfT2Pjdm4/

not my vid but probably my fav song he did

Yeah, interestingly the trend of rapping over vocal tracks live seems to have brought back the performance of whose songs instead of the one verse - hook - explosion - new song style that was prevalent until recently. I saw Rae Sremmurd live just a week ago and they rapped over tracks and did full songs and it was fun and energetic in a way rap shows never were just a few years ago.

he had a lot of security on stage looking seriously concerned. i just looked it up & i think he played at the bataclan in paris only a couple of days before the attacks? damn

hey tpp i traveled to that bataclan show, it was his first stop in europe. people were so excited for thug, i think the first 10 rows were a moshpit the whole time. i mean it made sense when he opened with 2 cups stuffed, but for hookah? lol

agreed on the joy of hearing ppl know the songs, i had to get my phone out for halftime
https://www.instagram.com/p/97FCy3ARi1/
https://www.instagram.com/p/97Ekj3gRiB/

i wish he played 2 cups stuffed but i think i am in the minority of ppl who rate hookah very highly lol

Slime Season is great and I like thinking he's saying "They can't see me like Mascis" on Calling Your Name

https://soundcloud.com/young-cesar-11/young-thug-fuck-cancer-feat-quavo
*rip cancer emoji*

there's an incredible song on the new tape seemingly recorded in the immediate afterglow of his hearing & freaking out about jeremih 'pass dat'

which one you mean?

king troup

ah yeah i can kinda hear it..."Pass Dat" was already kind of like something he would do, though, so i could see it also not being influenced by it.

Surprised he hasn't asked J to get on a remix of it

i could be imagining it. i think thug did record some sort of remix to 'pass dat' fwiw

yeah there was an instagram of him playing some unreleased version of "Pass Dat" w/ his vocals...i daydream of "Pass Dat" getting released as a single w/ Weeknd and Thug's verses added to it but who knows if Jeremih's label would bother to capitalize on that song

anyway this tape is pretty great!

yeah it is

i do wish thug mixtapes were mastered a little better

ss2 sounded pretty good but this new one and ss1 sound like shit

“You said I need to put a girl on ‘Birthday,’ ” he said to Lyor at one point, about a song called “Birthday” that was playing. “Maybe Rihanna. But you know who I want to do a song with no matter what? Adele. Shit'd be over.”

http://www.gq.com/story/young-thug-best-rapper-alive-interview

ss2 sounded pretty good but this new one and ss1 sound like shit

― marcos, Tuesday, February 9, 2016 10:58 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i kind of take this back? new one is pretty good.

my boys is a highlight

GQ interview is cray

it didnt feel super reliable like the thing abt thug being an avatar of nihilism seemed pretty forced i dont really get that from his music at least and of course the whole piece leaned pretty heavy on its cultural tourist perspective if knowingly, but it def painted some interesting pictures

I kind of want to get into playing dice for $$$

i didn't buy the nihilism bit either. thugger seems more hedonistic. future is the nihilist.

neither of them are nihilists. rap is not full of nihilists ffs

trying to define any artist by one word might be... reductive

sorry, what i meant is that future's music strikes me as a lot bleaker by comparison, to the point of nihilism

future can def be bleak but his emotional/philosophical palate is p varied imo

irl future is super possessive of his baby and emotional

or so I get from the gossip segment on the morning rap show

xp future's style was growing on me during the eoy polls and i'd been meaning to hear him some more... i'ma put on EVOL rn, haven't heard it yet :):)

new album is fun for sure. i'm gonna have to get caught up on all his stuff soon.

Once, in the middle of another interview, he got up, walked out of the room, went to the airport, and flew away.

So many gems on I'm Up.

This is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeqvAdn6U1E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7w9otyiE9g

thanks Eggs

https://res.cloudinary.com/thefader/image/upload/s--_crAYcvS--/w_1260,c_limit,q_jpegmini/Screen_Shot_2016-03-23_at_1.53.16_PM_b3v0cw.jpg

one of those rare 'omg rocker and rapper photo op' pairings where i really would be curious to hear what they'd do in the studio together

slime3 sounds ill

every thug tape lately feels like a compilation ep to me more than an album

I'm Up had very strong bookend tracks to make it feel more like an album than his releases usually do. but you definitely get a weird sense that any given Young Thug release is kind of an arbitrary data dump, where even someone else super prolific like Gucci seemed to be packaging up the last 20 songs he finished so that there's at least a chronological sense to what ends up on what record.

yeah agreed...i miss the structured/sonic congruity of rich gang/barter vi

it's a shame that stuff like the all-London concept of SS1 and Metro Thuggin and Migo Thuggin keep falling by the wayside, collaborative releases like Rich Gang seem like a good fit for him.

i was thinking when listening to SS3 how much i missed the rich gang rape feeling like an album. pretty much everything thug has released since barter feels interchangeable.

Kinda think that's mostly a knee jerk reaction at this point. SS3 is pretty good imo.

for anyone interested in a single-mood compilation of 2015 Thug, I think my new one came out well, and it's London-heavy

Kinda think that's mostly a knee jerk reaction at this point. SS3 is pretty good imo.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, March 26, 2016 5:48 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I kind of think it's the opposite, the knee jerk reaction is "what a genius who does no wrong"