Young Thug thread

i feel like Kevin Gates's career should be studied by other rappers looking to make that mixtapes-to-album transition, they just kept the music coming really steadily and then built up to the album so that there was a demand for it. so much better than the erratic way Gucci/Thug/Migos kind of steamroll over one project to get to the next one.

You'd think with Lyor Cohen involved, they would know better but wasn't there a thing awhile ago about how he actually has no idea these days (I didn't bother reading it tbh but wasn't that the gist)

i feel like Kevin Gates's career should be studied by other rappers looking to make that mixtapes-to-album transition, they just kept the music coming really steadily and then built up to the album so that there was a demand for it. so much better than the erratic way Gucci/Thug/Migos kind of steamroll over one project to get to the next one.

― a goon shaped tool (some dude), Thursday, May 19, 2016 10:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

the thing is that gates was almost entirely ignored by the music press up until he released islah so he could build up slowly in relative obscurity whereas migos & thug got magazine covers and stuff before they even released albums. i think in that same discussion w/ lyor cohen thug says "but the critics love it" or something regarding his music. (also it took gates years to get a hot 100 hit whereas with migos it happened instantaneously & thug after a few years and i think once that happened labels can't stop themselves from meddling.)

i'm pretty bewildered by Gates' success... he seemed to have fallen off the map pre-Islah. i kinda suspect it was just the high quality of the music that gave him the boost

do you think gates getting ignored by the music press is to do with image or the fact that he didn't have that one huge hit?

i think gates has more feel for how to craft a body of work while the others don't seem to put any thought into what makes an album work as an album aside from "lots of songs, in one package"

well gates isn't an aesthete and isn't from a city you can write a trend piece about. his mixtapes got steadily reviewed & stuff so there are rappers who have even stronger claims of having their music fall on deaf ears but just making good, regular street music doesn't exactly catch the attention of editors these days. you don't see gates pop up in the studio w/ kanye next to lil yachty or get remixed by drake or played by kylie jenner on snapchat. it's just not tastemaker music and right now that's where everyone's focus is.

the priorities of the music press just are out of wack, which isn't necessarily an indictment of the individuals w/in as much as general market factors or whatever. but the fact that like you could pitch a story about lil boosie's discography while he was in prison but prob couldn't land a piece about his output since isn't a good thing.

gates success is in part based on him touring a lot

meanwhile: http://www.thestranger.com/music/2016/05/18/24094446/young-thug-is-a-living-technological-advancement-of-black-art-with-an-inscrutable-style-thats-greater-than-language

lol, unless there's a proper hit soon we'll have to deal with those pieces for a few more years i'm afraid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7g5JADcrSo

Yeah I love that. Catchy as hell, but will radio station even consider playing that hook though?

Probably not. Though I don't think YT will lose sleep over that.

Thug on a dancehall beat sounds promising:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGtFODDRzwX/

nice

King Troup is pretty good

incredible https://twitter.com/ComplexlySimple/status/750579123672772609

welp i guess if ppl tell u nothing ever changes

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/jeffery.jpg

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

A+ first listen, no doubt

Finally - a next step.
Why isn't Pick up the phone a hit yet though? In at 90 on this week's Hot 100.

hahaha what

this tape is soooooo good... production is just masterful and his voice sounds so easy here. He used to stretch and strain but now he makes everything sound effortless

that cover is very what what WHAT

not sure i like this as much as "i'm up" but it's good

this is definitely better than I'm Up

it doesn't hit the soul like im up does though.

is anyone else listening via apple music and unable to play the last track, "pick up the phone?"

weird, it's on spotify and you can listen to the single version on apple music but for the album it ends with "pop man"

Amazing tape, just dropping into it now, but this is next level stuff from Jeffery.

RiRi. Fuck.

feeling like maybe I don't deserve Jeffery. r just has too much to give and I can't accept it all in good conscience

"R" should be "he" ffs

this is really good but SS3 is the best thing he's done for ages by far.

https://twitter.com/thugActivities/status/769335762194235392

<3

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this is really good but SS3 is the best thing he's done for ages by far.

― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Saturday, 27 August 2016 11:09 (ten hours ago) Permalink

Naw

not sure why this doesn't get the same level of attn and hyper-analysing frank ocean gets

Frank Ocean hasn't released anything in four years. Young Thug puts out music every few months

would be one reason

fuck i saw a long thing on fb this morning about the homosexual agenda against black men in response to this album cover

i like how theres a song called wyclef jean but thats not the song that features him

also the song called Guwop doesn't feature Gucci Mane

yes! thats a fair point about diff between FO and YT releases should have thought of that

the song called harambe does feature harambe tho

future swag is great

I'm so glad this isn't getting frank ocean level attention the critical audience for thug is annoying enough

hard to decide if the fanboys or the old-head hater brigade is more annoying when it comes to YT

well i think we can agree there is always something to be annoyed about