You know you’ve made it when there are news articles refuting the fake Instagram evidence of you in a mini-skirt. This is where we’re at in 2014. There is a rapper named Young Thug, who is 21 years old and not wearing Forever 21, but is still mistaken for a cross-dresser by malignant bloggers. Maybe Thug is smarter than these clowns. Maybe he understands the importance of a publicity stunt. For all the slander he might receive, he gets people talking and listening to his music, which is relentlessly entertaining in a way that salves my ADD-addled skulls. Or maybe you think this is all distressed auto-tune noise. I won’t blame you for arguing otherwise.
This site’s staff was largely mixed on Thugga, at least until this new track of him produced by Metro Boomin. He gives a clinic on how to flip the Migos triplets flow as a jump-off into his own Double Cups Stuffed as Ralph Steadman portrait of the universe. Despite a name that veers on the ultimate rap cliche, Thug doesn’t come off entirely weird for the sake of being weird. His eccentricity is both way to stand out and to experiment. There are banana boat and Malcolm in the Middle references, yelps, yawps, leaned out cracking croons, and the id melting like a jolly rancher. The songs feel spontaneous, as though he had no clue what he’d do until after he did it. Earlier this year, he was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, driving without a seat belt, reckless conduct, and reckless driving. This is also how he raps.
A bunch of new Thugga songs below the jump because he is rapping well even if you don’t think he’s rapping right.
