Young Thug thread

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

There were a lot of references not that long ago about how Thug always plans out his releases several projects in advance ("this is for SS3") and even the LodT interview references the conscious choice of putting the "hits" on this (SS3) while the album will be very different:

My sound now is still bouncy, but it's kind of laid back. [Hy!£UN35] is more musical, you'll see the true producer of London. You'll see all the details, it's not a formula on the album music. Like, the stuff we have on SS3 is more formal: let's take it straight to the club, let's put it on the Hot 100. It's straight forward. The stuff we got for the album is not in the same formula. You can tell, London put his heart in here. It's not typical. The new songs we got are ridiculously tremendous.

So there seems to be some sort of plan at work. But shit happens, obviously.

definitely the best of the slime seasons

trying to figure out how much to tone done our enthusiasm over thug to balance the scale against 'ppl on twitter' who overrate him seems dumb when he's releasing music this good imo

otm^^

way more immediate than barter 6, which turned out to be a classic

also i dont really think ppl itt have been gushing over everything thug has released lately

The new songs we got are ridiculously tremendous.

<3

Lol who is he kidding none of these are going up billboard

I don't think I like "immediate" thug, I have a heavy bias towards "very replayable" thug ("best friend" "hey I" "thief in the night") and the subtle complex compositional thug ("halftime" "just might be") but little time for aggressive or repetitive thug. Maybe to a biased degree but I like when he creates conscious effects more than when he's merely weird or abrasive or overly "raw"

For me barter vi > ss1 > the rest

I don't think I like "immediate" thug, I have a heavy bias towards "very replayable" thug ("best friend" "hey I" "thief in the night") and the subtle complex compositional thug ("halftime" "just might be") but little time for aggressive or repetitive thug. Maybe to a biased degree but I like when he creates conscious effects more than when he's merely weird or abrasive or overly "raw"

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, March 31, 2016 10:53 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

d-40 i agree w/ this a lot

part of the reason i prefer barter 6 over anything else he's put out

These new records are good of course because he's good, but I can't envision any of them making it up my list of favorites

tour > b6 > ss3 > 1017 > ss1/2

so many classic moments on ss3. i've had it on repeat all morning

i should probably listen to the thing

Oh yeah I wasn't ranking rich gang or any earlier thug tapes

what does 'i like replayable thug' mean? you're saying you like young thugs songs you like?

i find ss3 very replayable and very complex and compositional.

what does 'replayable' mean for a record that's 6 days old

means that on the seventh day, it rests

Lol who is he kidding none of these are going up billboard

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, March 31, 2016 10:50 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Digits" and "With Them" on the Hot 100 this week! obviously they'd need to catch on at radio to stay there though.

that's kind of my depressing wake-up call after jumping into satellite radio -- there are stations where you hear new rap music, but it's not a deep rotation so you still get a really weak cross-section of new music

not enough thugger, come on

yeah...i imagine he gets more songs on the air in the deep south but where i live "Best Friend" is the only thing from these 5 solo projects over the past year that i've heard on the radio.