Young Thug thread

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"

I know there are people on twitter who tweet that but I haven't really seen any real excitement about his projects since Barter 6. This one seems to please most of the people who actually like him though.
I think the shorter format suits him - even the Rich Gang tape could have been tightened up a bit. But I miss the feeling of an arc that B6 had.

these songs are awesome

Man, Stoner came up on shuffle for me recently. I think that song might be one of the classics of the genre.

Just like a...BOSS BOSS

Slime 3 is my fav thing he's done (at least that I've heard) like how short and concise it is and feels really tight

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2016/03/young-thug-digits-memo-tattoos-one-day/

almost half the record was recorded 2 years ago! it's funny how everyone tries to wring some kind of artistic narrative out of Young Thug releases when there's no correlation between when stuff is released and how long ago it might've been made.

Oh I have no idea, I'm not a huge fan. I think I really like his thing in small doses because he's exciting but can get grating for me quickly

There's an artistic narrative in regards to how and when he chooses to release them, I guess?

I'm Up's title and cover changed within 48 hours of its release, how organized and deliberate do you think this stuff can be