Young Thug thread

ten points off for using "amidst" in a sentence.

The lines that noz is highlighting are certainly evocative but strike me more like Masta Ace saying "I got girls, but I would never bring sand to the beach" as opposed to Masta Ace saying "I project my voice so it's right in the crowd/There's a sign at the door: no bitin' allowed" if you smell me?

Like they're stuff you can sort of sit with an toss around if you were invested enough, as opposed to lines that take a life of their own? Like will some rapper in 5 years make some sly allusion to "my car is rare like a mullet?" or are we just beyond that being a measuring stick? Is Vineability the new "Hip-Hop Quotable" to the point where "lines" aren;t things you can see on paper or even repeat? If Missy Elliott dropped "Work It" today, would she be regarded as the greatest rapper of a generation?

not being confrontational, just thinking aloud, so please don't turn this into a dick-measuring contest, usual gaggle of twitter cats

Dog there are like a million possible lyrical styles and you're still trying to grade this on some sort of linear map of good -> banal -> bad

In the nineties the idea of saying young thug was a good rapper wouldn't be this same kind of fucking frightened suspicion, he has a particular rap style that is funny and unique, but you keep acting like it's somehow coming up short for you in some way when really you don't actually hear any of it!

You could stand here and say the exact same shit about Raekwon if you wanted.

"Rolling like trump you get your meat lumped isn't exactly no bitin allowed"

I like his particular rap style that is funny and unique! The disconnect is in most writing I see about him!

Like, I feel like the goalposts have moved very quickly in the last three years to where someone like Keef or Future or even Lil B could be talked about like "This guy is doing something outside the world of traditional rap as we know it, but it's interesting and can be appreciated thusly" to Young Thug just being blanketed as a king of feels and a visionary sculptor and the most gifted, forward-thinking contemporary rapper on the planet

One major difference is that when people quote Raekwon, it's stuff that rhymes.

The Young Thug quotes in this thread have been like evocative fortune cookies or Jordan stanning for something he can't even understand the words of

soyrev is spanish for "i am rev" btw stay woke

lol it stands for soy milk revolution

Whiney my man what do you have against fortune cookies

i'm not opposed to it, i'm just saying we're talking about yawns and adlibs and "crude pictographs"

I just think the very nature of how we approach and examine rap music is changing very fast

that's very true and probably why it's easier for you to stan for soemthing like 'sausage' over young thug? ; )

Like appreciating yawns and adlibs is a perfectly acceptable poptimist stance, but it's being written about from the primarilty rockist view of Thugger being the thelonious monk/orson welles of percussive yawps?

Whitney we all agree soyrev has trash opinions

hahahaha

anyone want scans/pictures of the pitchfork article that the picture above was taken from? i got a copy of the pitchfork review for free for buying p4k fest tickets (which i am now selling lol)

http://i.imgur.com/50o4m5G.jpg

who wrote that article?

brian david zarley

brian david zarley
BDZ
Brent De crescenZo

oh thank god no one i know *clutches chest*

what unmitigated garbage

in fairness to everyone being clowned itt, it's hard to talk about the 'how' of rapping

anyhoo the latest set of leaks is really good. 13 tracks or so---on the whole about as good as barter 6 i reckon.

is there a zip for those somewhere?

there've been several and they've been linked on this thread prior

the 100+ tracks leak (100+ including all the Quan ftr) linked upthread didn't include Spaghetti Factory or Hey I or a couple others mentioned recently but you'd have to be a neon battery-powered butterfly to stay on top of this

here's the new new ones

http://www86.zippyshare.com/v/mAmD2pNa/file.html

I have the old new ones. These are the ones I needed. Thanks.

Since we're speaking of quotability I feel like this needs to be posted:
https://soundcloud.com/whoisque/que-gucci-said-prod-by-sonny-digital

Something wrong with the pussy is one for the ages.

soyrev is spanish for "i am rev" btw stay woke

― k3vin k., Monday, June 1, 2015 11:04 AM Bookmark

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"something wrong with the pussy" is like an all-time line

i also like

Hopped out my mufuckin bed

that's a great memorable banality in a 90s tradition, imo

"something wrong with the pussy" is like an all-time line

― 龜, Monday, 1 June 2015 22:02 Bookmark

only together with the WAT? adlib tho

thelonious monk had no quotables

haven't listened to any of these leaks cos i'm still obsessed with barter 6. a lot of the small details & less obvious hooks took a few weeks to reveal themselves to me (compared with say 'who's on top') but now they are stuck in my brain forever.

Young Thug made it onto a Norwegian milk carton.

https://twitter.com/ashleyberkowitz/status/606891896699559936

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/790-an-interview-with-jojo-zarur-young-thugs-stylist/

a willowy rapper with a septum piercing who liked toying with gender constraints

great interview

calling her a stylist is selling her way short tho, shes straight up making those clothes herself

JZ: He doesn’t wear anything loose. He told me, "I only feel comfortable with really tight pants." I will go buy him a pair of men’s pants, and I cut and sew them to a women’s fit. I might buy a dress, and then I’ll cut it, and I’ll add a men's t-shirt, and do something crazy. Mixing men’s and women’s, that’s how I work. I’Il look at three pieces and make one out of it. I put Thug in this cool red coat with fur in one of his videos. Everybody called me, like, "What designer is that coat?" I was going by a theater costume store and I saw a red coat. I cut up this other coat I had with fur, and I added it to it. The other day I made a jacket out of a backpack. I have no limits.

o hi dere
http://www.rlgri.me/summerstage/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7aNoqUIQAAkS6m.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7aNoqVIUAA9LSZ.jpg

they r selling the brown sonic shirt on his website but I feel like it would actually be corny n not cool to wear irl

http://thehotboxsocial.tumblr.com/post/122310447071/metro-thuggin-young-thug-metro-boomin-loosies

http://pitchfork.com/news/60400-young-thug-arrested-on-terroristic-threats-charge/

"terroristic threats"

terroristicish threats

terrr-rristic threa yeahhh

this is bullshit

Wtf??

Apparently he threatened the other day to shoot a mall security cop. Haven't we all?