Young Thug thread

A lot of writers are really invested in promoting the narrative of Young Thug as some unassailable creative genius, aren't they? All of those name drops in the n+1 piece are astounding, it almost reads like parody of the discourse that has surrounded him over the last 5 years or so.

n plus 1 sux

good Noisey interview with the engineer, interesting comments on the Rocket Man leak:

How hard of a secret is that to keep?
I actually hadn’t heard it until I got it for this project, which was after the leak. I don’t listen to any leaks. If I see it, I block whoever posted it and move on. It’s that upsetting where it’s like, I’d just rather not. So when someone wants to talk about it, I just block them and go about my day. It’s just easier. I would be angry all the time if that’s all I saw. I saw it briefly, and people were hitting me, and I was just like, I don’t know. It’s one of those situations where you hope it doesn’t ruin a great song and this time we didn’t let that happen. When it comes to songs leaking, it’s such a sore spot especially for us considering how many songs leaked in the past. I’m just happy this one made the cut. It’s such a big moment for him, that I’m glad he didn’t let people outside of the camp ruin it for him.

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/ev7p9k/alex-tumay-young-thug-on-the-rvn-engineer-interview

He is awful live.

tbh many rappers in that genre are

unless you're there to mosh and party, then they're great

nah even for that he’s terrible

tbh many rappers in that genre are

― niels, Saturday, October 6, 2018 6:16 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw him live a couple of years ago and he was pretty good as far as I can remember.

new album (So Much Fun) just dropped

It has a song called 'Sup Mate' :'-D

Appropriate album title IMO

a lot of fun, indeed, but not enough weirdness imo. lots of highlights before it gets a bit bogged down by guest stars towards the end.

nav is truly terrible, idk why all the trap guys like him so much

what future song uses the exact flow as "lil baby"? this is killing me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeYG-tboiOU

oh yeah, just the single from his last album lol

album rules, much better than beautiful thugger girls

Yeah it's easily his best since Jeffrey (and his first #1 album too albeit almost all due to streaming) so the lack of discussion here is a little surprising.

yeah i've definitely come around on the album, tho idk if i like it more than BTG, which i liked more than most

it's a fun easy listen imo

really all of it ranges from pretty good to great except for that track with nav

"what's the move"!!!! what a song

I like it but I haven't really found anything that jumps out too much compared to Jeffery and BTG. Production is solid but not that interesting, as is Thugger's delivery

Qualifier 75!

1 Kool Keith/Tom Waits! https://t.co/luuAnkl2GI
2 Young Thug/Rich Homie Quan! https://t.co/IrJJGu5hK0
3 Clipping/La Chat! https://t.co/FlK0aK8CVU
4 Body Count/Riley Gale! https://t.co/QCoV0mpXJD

— World Cup Of Duets (@peoples_pop) October 11, 2020

some serious injustice happening here

uh

Young Thug says he hasn’t worked with Andre 3000 because he feels Dre looks down on the new generation.

I feel like Thug made that up in his head.

🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️

pic.twitter.com/NFWubhSACG

— Justin L. Hunte 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@TheCompanyMan) November 27, 2020

This guy really fell off, huh?

Weird. Maybe for Thug it’s a matter of “This particular thing is so uncannily close to my wheelhouse im going to dismiss it outright” or something. Seems irrational and very surprising

he had some solid gunna collabs this year but im not entirely sure if he fell off because his one album of 2020 was a full-length collaboration with chris brown and i will never ever listen to that

This guy really fell off, huh?

― Jouster, Thursday, December 10, 2020 4:00 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

he had a top 10 hit lol

yeah it's pretty inarguable that he's more popular than he's ever been

tho it is true he just hasnt released a ton of music the last couple few years

I'm honestly a little grateful to have gotten a bit of a respite from new music from Thugger, from like 2015-2019 it was like a full-time job keeping up with him.

wonder what hes been doing

evol j otm, by the time BTG came out I was p satiated with him, but there's stuff from that absurdly productive period I prob still haven't heard

gunna's "dollaz on my head" and aminé's "compensating" are his guest verses most worth searching for this year imo

ooh, his spot on dababy's "blind" is nice too

I love that Megan song he's on but mostly just for the beat rather than anything Thug's bringing to the table

thug is def better generally on his own songs than features, you need the whole thug experience

he sounds good when bouncing back and forth with one of his sons (baby, gunna, keed), but agreed. he didn't really drop any of his own songs this year, tho

evolj otm about don't stop
thug is wildly inconsistent but he has his moments

i did not like his last album even tho it 'worked' at what it needed to do, ie legitimized him as a star ... idk that i'd say he's "wildly inconsistent," he had periods of being extremely consistent... but there's a tendency to coast that i didn't really get from his peak period

ayyyyyyy
https://wsvn.com/entertainment/rappers-young-thug-gunna-pay-bail-for-low-level-offenders-in-atlanta/

nice

wish this was actually at the NPR office, covid has taken so much from us

tomorrow 12pm east, 9am west @nprmusic 💕💕 pic.twitter.com/DfD9JtxIA6

— Young Thug ひ (@youngthug) July 26, 2021

tiny desk (gigantic mansion) concert

"tick tock" is really infectious

yeah it's super fun

it was an obvious highlight of his tiny desk from a few weeks back

always fun when he decides to remind people he can rap his ass off

good stuff, im ready for pop thug

I think this is his best album since 2015

Maintain so much fun is absurdly overrated