Young Thug thread

So my problem with Tha Carter title is that so many people dismiss Young Thug as trolling, especially with the way he dresses and occasionally flips hetero-normative conventions. But here he really is trolling, and that makes it easier to dismiss everything else he does as trolling, too

― Evan R, Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:26 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean this strikes me as the best thing about 'the carter vi,' weed out the lames

i just hope he doesn't get cold feet and pull an "i'm gay" like "carter vi (i came from nothing 6)"

I thought he already changed it to 'the barter'

i wonder if this will be underwhelming

Of course it will. And then we'll all grow to love it later, when the noise is gone.

The Barter 6 is an even better title than The Carter 6 imo.

Of course it will. And then we'll all grow to love it later, when the noise is gone.

― longneck, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 3:52 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why is this 'of course' the outcome?

the whole thing is weird, like... they're putting out a "real" album with no single? so it's basically a mixtape but with a little PR push behind it? and i guess it will be on itunes.

that's what i'm assuming at least and i assume it will be as good as his other mixtapes, which is to say a half dozen incredible songs and some stuff that is more generic than it should be

Because everyone will want to distance themselves from all the hype/noise right now + we were already taken by surprise last year w The Tour so it won't happen again. @ deej

feel like the cater 6 wldve been a very good and interesting album title and not trolling but actually perfectly serendipitous and apt because lil wayne is thugs musical idol 100% that was the inspiration for the title in the first place but then real life intervened in such a crazy way that the cater 6 was actually knocking the carter 5 out of its release date complicating the whole thing on a crazy level and that folks is what we call art, class dismissed

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ZEppdmSd--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/ehpmingscue9jxtrglm4.png

the whole thing is weird, like... they're putting out a "real" album with no single? so it's basically a mixtape but with a little PR push behind it? and i guess it will be on itunes.

that's what i'm assuming at least and i assume it will be as good as his other mixtapes, which is to say a half dozen incredible songs and some stuff that is more generic than it should be

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, April 15, 2015 5:01 PM (56 minutes ago)

afaict it's coming out on 300 Ent and is going to be on iTunes/Spotify but also officially on mixtape sites much like their Kevin Gates, Shy Glizzy, etc releases. it just seems weirder here because YT is far more famous with those guys and confusingly closely aligned with Cash Money in every way except releasing albums with them.

thug referred to it as "the mixtape" in one of those vine videos a day or two ago

i still call albums "tapes" sometimes

that new taylor swift tape

― nose, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 5:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ice cold burn i submit

...my thesis!

That new Barter 6 though.

surprised by how mellow this album is but i guess it makes sense. the songs we already heard prior to the album dropping (check, halftime, numbers, just might be) are probably still my favorites after one listen and i think it partially has to do with how i don't like a lot of the features on here. birdman and boosie's respective verses aren't so hot, and especially with the former when considering how effective he was on flava. digging how duke and thugger go back and forth on dome. otherwise, i think i prefer with that and od to the tracks with features at the moment. gonna have to give it another spin.

The Barter 6 is one of the worst album titles i've ever seen. an intriguing idea gone far south =/

ok nevermind young dolph and yak gotti are alright. they definitely don't stunt the vibe as much as boosie does with his verse

Nah Barter 6 is great. Even if there wasn't the explanation of C --> B because of blood, it still is hilarious and perfectly aligned with everything that makes Young Thug great.

i like boosie's verse.

my only problem with B6 is that "beat it" is not on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kprkF86ADEo

it feels a bit aimless, less electric than 1017 thug

first track is nice tho

Yeah was a bit sad Beat It wasn't on the album. Also, Jacquees stated on twitter that that's not him and it's Jeremih on the track. Also my previous comment about features seems dumb now that I forgot that With That has a feature too.

i'm so confused, where is Barter 6? only on iTunes in like New Zealand and people are downloading copies leaked from that?

classic new zealand early launch very nice

Wow why didn't anybody tell me Barter 6 was out

barter 6 is out

is it barter as in like, the system of exchange? or, what's the letter next to c in the alphabet?

Ty xp

I was going to watch Daredevil because my twitter feed told me to but now I am going to listen to this whole Young Thug album because my Twitter feed told me to

it feels a bit aimless, less electric than 1017 thug

first track is nice tho

― J0rdan S., Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:15 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

Does seem to lack in energy

Maybe this is actually the melancholic thugger album that lex was strawmanning for all those months

on spotify btw

vibe of this is so subdued and i don't know how down i am with that. love "just might be" of course, really into "check" and "dream"

I was missing the Triumphant Thugger so I put on Fuck With It and Who's On Top for a few times

yeah it's not a question of zaniness or something but he doesn't really push himself vocally on this. im missing, like, a "condo music" or something.

the hooks on here also don't seem nearly as memorable as those on previous mixtapes? and i get he's going for a different vibe here but i just listened to givenchy again and, like, every single line is insanely melodic and that sort of vocal virtuosity works on multiple levels. that just doesn't happen as much on barter 6 from what i can tell. there was a clear progression from i came from nothing to 1017 thug to the various singles that came before tha tour pt 1 but i'm not seeing much of a step forward here :|

i love this

FYI

i hope he shakes every asshole fan who wish he would make meme music they could tweet about

Lol. I'm totally with deej on this one. Sure, I would have loved an obvious hit. But yeah, I love this as it is.

really love the last three tracks, especially the swelling choral on "od"

'halftime' is my fav

"meme music"

http://media.giphy.com/media/caUXX6MOnWVbi/giphy.gif

"beat it" with jeremih should be the huge hit.

I think it makes sense he's going for the same vibe as rich gang since his most popular songs are 'lifestyle' and 'all about the money'.

this is great, especially the second half although I think my favorite moment rn might be Birdman's very obviously Thugger-penned verse on "Knocked Off".

also btw, who is "wheezy 5th"