Young Thug thread

this comp tape has a lot of jams imo if youre hard up for more new thugger - http://www.datpiff.com/YOUNG-THUG-Jeffery-Lamar-Williams-mixtape.799469.html

also i saw this https://archive.org/details/Young_Thug_-_The_Leak-2015
which iirc was taken down off datpiff but also has joints

T/F: the Rae sremmurd is better

They're both great but this feels like a return to form whereas the Sremm is a steady but less commercially succesful development. I prefer this one, but yeah, the Sremm is getting slept on.

I've just had the two on constant rotation for the last week or so. very little time for anything else. I must have listened to Black Beatles/Wyclef Jean/Pick Up The Phone/Just Like Us about 40 times as a suite now. Just when I thought 2016 AOTY choices were down to slim pickings

putp feels tacked on hotline bling style

it is in fact tacked on

jeffery enunciates and projects more than thugger its cool to hear

They're both great but this feels like a return to form whereas the Sremm is a steady but less commercially succesful development. I prefer this one, but yeah, the Sremm is getting slept on.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 2 September 2016 07:35 (ten hours ago) Permalink

"Return to form"? Idk about that. According to ppl saying that he never fell off in the first place

It's not even his final form

ss3/im up didnt grab me but i dont think having a couple soso mixtapes really constitutes falling off its just like standard

i love the flow of the rs record, the way it begins as something and ends as something different. the thug tape i get new things out of every time i listen to it but it doesn't move in the same way. hard to say which i like more.

jeffery/SL2 are alternate dimensions imo but jeffery is the more interesting dimension

i definitely find SL2 more interesting/unique but obv you're talking about a concentrated punch of creativity doled out once per year, when you compare their catalogs its no competition

but SL2 is still >>> jeffery imo

idk ive come around on raeS but theyre still kinda pop toys on some level, i mean the songs r perfect dont get me wrong

It's not that Thug fell off, it's that his projects have felt aimless since B6. This one has purpose, and also it doesn't sound like any of the other projects. Not like Rich Gang, not like B6. (Any song on ss1-3 + i'm up could have gone on any of those albums.) Hence return to form.

seemed like all the slimes were from the same sessions, this stuff prob newer

i dont really hear much more going on below the surface *on this tape* in thug than w/ swae lee & slim jimmi tbh

um thug has gravitas + is a wellspring of genuine culture

yeah but again i dont really hear that on this tape mainly it feels like a love letter to his beloved & the various ways hes going to show that love mainly physically

again he's the greater Artist but i don't think this album is really showing some unforeseen depths of personality or something

hmm ya maybe ill have to get back to u

slime 3 stands out as being really punchy and fun whereas the others seem more like a cross between the minimal/subdued style of B6 and what he was doing before. I can't really tell the difference in style between SS1, 2 and I'm Up but SS3 is much more immediate

uh guwop beat is nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D29TRCsqxfY

song is very good too

credited to Wheezy TM88 Cassius Jay, whose age of aquarius sound is this

http://i.imgur.com/zB29qHu.png

is that backwards keyboard sound a sample? it sounds super familiar

tonally p.difft but have combined jeff & barter into "no, my name is BARTER"

wyclef
constantly hating
with that
RiRi
halftime
guwop
check
harambe
webbie
kanye
just might be

i don't really understand anybody's rankings of his recent solo projects. SS2 was my favorite of the longer 2015 ones and I'm Up has been my favorite of the shorter 2016 ones, will never understand the reverence for B6. Jeffrey is pretty good but a Thug project with zero London beats could never be my favorite.

xpost no "pop man" is a sin

pop quiz, it's a pop quiz

kanye = pop man no? best song on the record imo (honours even w/ RiRi & guwop)

yeah he renamed Pop Man "Kanye West" on iTunes after it was released, which is a p good joke imo

that song was alternately titled "Wet Wet" or "Elton John" or "Elton" or "John" or "Pop Man" or "Kanye West" in the space of 2 weeks

I'm making myself a little YT 'best of' mixtape. Would love to hear your top tens.

Here's my 2015 onwards top 10:

Wyclef Jean
With That
With Them
Pick Up The Phone
Thief In The Night
Drippin'
RiRi
Pacifier
Calling Your Name
Hercules

"Again" from the first Slime Season I've come back to a lot this year

just discovered 'wanna be me' off of that. the one where he starts chatting about carrots.

First time I heard that beat it made me think of Tiny Toons from growing up for some reason, and Bugs Bunny > carrots...idk

'wanna be me' is one of my favourite songs to start the day if it's sunny outside.

if you weren't listening to it already, you probably should spend some time with this: http://beefnbrocolli.tumblr.com/post/141424018567/maha-mondays-thugga-tapes (linked upthread). 'iowa' deserves more love.

damn.. the download link doesn't work any more.

hey that's one of mine! here is a re-up, I added in the mastered version of Iowa that surfaced recently (but left the video rip of Worth It because it sounds sweeter somehow).

Cheers Mahica

This is my mix of recent stuff:

https://www.mixcloud.com/doglatin/pacifier-a-young-thuggers-guide-to-young-thug/

1. Wyclef Jean
2. Pick Up the Phone
3. Thief In The Night
4. RiRi
5. Hercules
6. Wanna Be Me
7. F Cancer (Boosie)
8. Drippin'
9. Pacifier
10. Calling Your Name
11. Again
12. With That
13. With Them

Enjoy!

Really dig the sound Metro Boomin uses on "Hercules" and, to use an older example, "The Blanguage." A little more spaced-out than his usual?

A+ Future/Young Thug combination producer tag intro too

Hadn't listened to I'm Up the whole way and completely skipped over SS3, going back and catching up on current-year Thug

I find I like the fuller, more 'colourful' production on these productions than most of the more minimal/subdued stuff on Barter 6

been listening to jeffery-coloring book-sremml2 on shuffle at the gym, recommended

Yeah with Barter 6 I really like "Dream" and, iirc, "Just Might Be," but overall it never hooked me like that.

Looking forward to being able to buy a physical copy of eventual official debut, hopefully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9L3j-lVLwk

all the feels in one video

cute concept but sort of gets tiring by the end. should have had more video of him performing the actual song.

i think the thing is he didn't show up for the video shoot

lol sorry it says that in the video