Young Thug thread

Lmao LJ :D

Great great song.

xp ;~)

this is very good

got 2 b safe

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

new album out friday.

seems weird.

sick i hope its all like safe

very weird

👍👍👍

Weird in the best way. Just hope he can score a proper hit with one of these songs. He's an underachiever chart-wise.

Those are my least fav kind of longneck posts. This is like when you kept insisting keef was lost in the weeds making shit no one would ever care about right when he'd just released what became two of his biggest records

Both artists dropped before streaming really made a real chart impact. Thug has not "underachieved" on the charts

gonna listen the shit out of this album

wow... so far this sounds like yet another step up, even from Jeffery which I thought was brilliant. The production alone..

That's basically what I'm talking about. Since streams do count this time there's no excuses if none of these songs chart. Future managed to get it done with Mask Off, and now he's undeniably a top tier artist, even though I vastly prefer his pre-WATTBA music. Before that his highest charting song featured Drake and we all know those songs don't really count.

As for Thug, Pick Up The Phone was last year's song of the summer in my circles and his highest charting song, but it still only reached #47 on the Hot 100. Not even Good Times managed to make him into a household name. What I'm afraid of is that he has lost his window and will never be the star he could have been - if only the charts had been more like what they are today when he had his breakthrough. Jeffery was good, but it still lacked something. More people were talking about the dress than about the music.

I always liked Faneto, btw, and Can You Be My Friend is one of my favorite singles this year. Keef has still spent a good few years in the wilderness and he'll probably never be the star he could have been, even if those years probably were for the better in helping him figure out what he wanted to be and do.

xpost to deej, of course.

I have no idea why or how Mask Off was chosen and made a hit. Totally boring compared to a lot of other tunes he's released lately. I'm So Groovy, Fresh Air, Coming Out Strong would all have been better choices IMO

afaict RapCaviar has only added one song from Beautiful Thugger Girls. It's the one w Future and it's hardly at the top of the list, w three 2 Chainz songs higher up.

damn, "do u love me"

this is super great--highlights so far are "do u love me," "on fire," and "relationship"

Not even Good Times managed to make him into a household name.

First off, sentences like this are mind numbing bc it suggests you don't know what would make an actual hit for him anyway--this is by many miles one of his less popular records. "Pull up on a kid" and "best friend" and "with that" were way, way bigger

But also my point is you're talking about the artists like its their fault that they didn't chart--that *he* "underperformed" bc streaming hadn't been incorporated into billboard when it was always a broken system. Maybe!!what matters in rap is not what the charts arbitrarily support at any random time? Maybe there's more to the zeitgeist than that? In retrospect the people who were getting amped to "we dem boyz" or whatever seem more out of touch w what was happening in rap than the kids who were listening to "in the woods" keef and "underperforming" thug records

Also @ dog Latin the label actually pushed "drayco" but "mask off" was the people's choice

we were all like drayco? fuck it, mask off

mask off is really catchy and the flute loop is really infectious, this weird ilm anti-mask off sentiment is bizarre to me, i'm not a big future guy or anything but when i heard mask off i got why it was big

I get why it's big, it's just kind of boring imo

One man's boring is another man's "hypnotic"

plus that Prison Song sample is dope af.

where's the RMDE gif when i need it

so this is Thugger's HNDRXX I guess?

that's a pretty good comparison, tho HNDRXX faded for me after I initially loved it. time will tell what i think of BTG, but i do know that "on fire" is a jam

favs are the one w/ future, 'on fire' 'get high' and 'do u love me'

daddy's birthday

in the interests of cross platform consistency i should mention i decided im not that into the future record upon repeat listens. idk, hook is kinda rhythmic radio corny to me

Well, there's no Rich Gang alchemy present on that song, for sure.

which future record?

Relationship, the one on BTG. I think it's fine but it doesn't feel as effortless as the Thug/RHQ stuff. A high bar, obviously.

they shdve collaborated before they became legends

They did, the track they did on ICFN2 is good

was thinking like a whole tape........with gucci

That would've been really cool probably, tho personally I'd pass on Hucclecote.

(Left that autocorrect for Gucci in bc lol)

lmao wtf is Hucclecote

Hucclecote Mane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hucclecote

[young thug voice] maaaaate

I can't stop listening to this album.. rather early but tempted to say it's his best work so far

if I waste your time I reimbuuuursee

out ridin' on a bike on a very late night has p much been my life this week

not my cup of tea

oops this was meant for the vince staples thread

So this did 50% of Kodak Black's first week numbers. That's what I was afraid of. Definitely not saying that it devaluates the music but seeing as he has been a buzz artist for so long without it translating into actual sales I'm semi worried about his future.

* semi worried about his commercial future and how it will impact his artistic arc. Thug doesn't need to sell in order to be good but I'm not sure how he'll take it if people begin to consider him a flop.

this record sounding v good, might be his best yet