Young Thug thread

Hy!£UN35

i love "Amazing"

without jasquees tho

sometimes when i think of young thug i also think of p monch.

― ANU (sisilafami), Friday, April 17, 2015 8:02 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha this comparison is super astute and would also drive a fair size portion of rap fans completely see red

somewhat embarrassingly i own a signed 2lp copy of internal affairs that says "thanks [rtc] keep supporting real hip hop!!" so plz fwd all complaints for this hyper tenuous tangent to me i guess

that album is awesome no shame

that said i should have sold it when its CD price peaked at like $100 back in 2006 or thereabouts

o yeah no killer record it's more my sad dereliction of duties to real hip hop in the time since

http://www.thefader.com/2015/04/17/young-thug-announces-his-official-debut-album-hyun35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utxOjjc7WvU

kinda weird thug is collaborating w tUnE-yArDs

tuneyards loves the barter system obv

tru

wheezy 5th is rex the dog

that said i should have sold it when its CD price peaked at like $100 back in 2006 or thereabouts

― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, April 17, 2015 2:46 PM Bookmark

wait, really? wish I would have known that. still mad that Breaking Atoms got reissued right after I found a copy for $7.

haha half of this album was produced by someone called 'Wheezy 5th'? trollin outta control

the first song constantly hating is incredible

birdman > puff

"He made it a point every night to change clothes. The fashion and his style was definitely something that stood out. He performed in long johns one time, and the poncho. One end of the spectrum he's wearing Hooters tank tops, then on the other end he would come out in the new Yeezys or the Red Octobers, stuff which caught people like, 'Oh wow, this guy can dress.' That's something I've seen since the beginning with Thug. No matter how people try to make fun of it, he's so confident in his skin he can literally wear anything and make you a believer. He made it cool to wear whatever and no one questions it. "

Lean reasons itt literally make no sense btw

pretty boring really. i really like him (and his fashion sense), but i'd rather listen to any of the actual carters tbh...

YT and London gave us so many great tracks on Tha Tour only 7 months ago that i don't really mind that they sound a little tapped out here.

this is his If You're Reading... to HiTunes' Views from the 6, right? even by that metric it's not so great, but that has me hopeful for what's next. i'd like more "About the Money" YT

"Just Might Be" is fucking sick though

that would seem to be the line of thinking, although HiTunes is ALSO coming out on 300 Ent so i'm guessing the only real difference will be having more big name guests, more radio promotion of advance singles.

my favorites are all on the back half (Just Might Be, OD, Amazing), the sequencing is really doing this thing no favors.

any of the actual carters?

@somedude and a more active, radio-oriented sound, i'd guess. sequencing def a little weird but "just might be" as closer is the smartest move this album makes.

@brad honestly, yeah. IV is up and down but it's got "she will," "how to hate" (probably unintentional, but really absurd/surreal), "6 foot 7 foot," some top-shelf late-period nas, and is seldom boring. "just might be" definitely beats any one thing off it, though.

I think once u let ur expectations be reshaped by this album u will fall in love like I have in the past 24 hours

I think once u let ur expectations be reshaped by this album u will fall in love like I have in the past 24 hours

― 龜, Saturday, April 18, 2015 9:54 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bingo

i really don't think it's an issue of him being 'tapped out' or something ... this seems like the active pursuit of a particular aesthetic

i think also ppl's expectations for a career in 2015 are weirdly sped up, like he literally only even got real attention a year ago

@kanji i will keep trying. i want to like it.

Lol we don't call it a kanji, jakob

whatever happened to tha tour 2

quan left

it sounds like they maybe had it in the can tho maybe not

quan shd come back

did jakob have expectations? he's only heard 1017 thug once and hasn't heard tha tour pt 1 yet.

there were a bunch of those tracks that leaked that were supposedly from tha tour pt 2. there were like 10+ of them iirc. up up and away was one i remember digging a lot.

ya thats what made me think it was maybe done already

or that both volumes were gonna be from the same sesh

When is metro warrior coming out

also, will say i'm digging the album a lot more than my initial listens. i think i kind of just wanted some dun deal-produced stuff since pelican fly and friend of scotty were killer

srsly what the heck xp

i went back and listened to 1017 thug today. much of it is kind of unlistenable

like its 'weird' or 'interesting' but not good

@hanzi but not technically wrong! :)

@mister i had limited expectations, but some. (i'd read that this was a spacey, spacious record and was excited for what that might mean in the YT universe, but this isn't so spacey or spacious after all imo.) the notion of a talented young wayne acolyte being bold enough to (try to) name his record carter 6 was definitely intriguing, too.

so far i like the idea of thug more than the thug of the real, but i think everything about him on "about the money" is mindblowing. in a very different way, i now like "just might be" just as much.

@mister btw, creep game strong *_*

hmm i still think of it as pretty spacey/spacious

idk a lot of these beats are the same kinda dramatic trap brooders we've heard thousands of times in the past 4 years. young thug's prowess as a vocal stylist is present but not really explored as much as a "spacey" YT album makes me imagine. i guess i was thinking something more like lil wayne "single" beats paired with lil wayne "can't believe it:" verse, but pushed farther out/more to YT's strengths. (and i guess i was hoping as much based on the whole carter 6 / wayne obsession angle)

going to give it some more time though.

i don't think he really sounds like wayne at all at this point nor do i think he's trying to do anything really wayne-like

except maybe for the first song where he seems to be intentionally referencing him?

i feel like ppl are looking for more EXTREME young thug but that was always the aspect of thug's appeal which was least interesting to me

or at least, it was only interesting inasmuch as it was in tension w/ his pop appeal