![]() But as long as he keeps himself surrounded by the likes of Mama Duck, I’m certain his heart will stay pure.Ģ016 was a strange year for Young Thug, musically. Although he’s all but cleaned up his imagine this year, I’m afraid his enthusiasm, well intentioned or otherwise, will always be difficult to reel in. Thug trying to reconcile having come from nothing to now flying high above everyone is an inner struggle I’m sure we’ll witness more than once throughout his career. Unfortunately, it’s this same level of passion that can easily be mistaken for crude arrogance and gross ignorance when something like the Alaska Airlines incident occurs. Where this man gets the audacity to do half the shit he does I may never understand, but what I do relate to is the passion – the “fuck what they have to say” mentality behind it all – that’s evident from the way he carries himself to the consistently spellbinding music he produces. When I half-heartedly scrolled through Twitter that night, only to see Thug get up during the VFiles show at New York’s Fashion week (the same show that spawned the baby blue Alessandro Trincone gown he’d sport on the Jeffery cover), draped in various shades of red, looking like a model himself except for that loud blunt smoking away at the corner of his mouth, my jaw didn’t just hit the floor, it went clean through the foundation of my apartment. On September 7th, seven months after the MSG spectacle, Thug interrupted yet another fashion show – this time, it was one he was directly involved in mentoring. ![]() As far as he was concerned, he was still winning. But Thug wouldn’t be Thug, he wouldn’t be the renegade he is, if he cared about any of this – with I’m Up, SS3 and Jeffery, Thug had secured three top five rap debuts in a row. SS3 got him more new fans than ever before, but Thug was still an outsider to the industry. “With Them” still doesn’t even have a music video (neither does the other cult single from that tape, “Digits”). However, and if you’re a Thug fan this probably feels all too familiar, “With Them” was never properly pushed as a single and SS3 barely out performed his previous releases. “Fuck all that let’s get to it,” the track began, before recklessly bursting into a hook that goes: “she suck on that dick on a plane and I just called her airhead.” As Thug wheezed over the speakers (“whoo, hee”), the live reactions of older Kardashian family affiliates as well as young models who couldn’t help but bob their heads flashed across the screen. And who can blame them? That’s the natural reaction once a Thugger song gets past the primary stage of alien unfamiliarity and finds its way into the depths of your initially resistant psycheĪ few songs before that joyous celebration, Thug himself had hijacked the aux cord – right in the middle of Kanye’s premiere of the Post Malone and Ty Dolla $ign assisted “Fade” – and teased a single from his Slime Season 3 in jaw-dropping fashion. Williams himself up until that point), who were under strict rules to not whisper, smile, sing (unless instructed), move fast, move slow or basically do anything that took away from their auditions to be extras on HBO’s “ Westworld ,” absolutely lost their shit. When somebody – I’m assuming Kanye, considering he can be seen losing his shit to the song in Paris years ago – played one of Young Thug’s earliest hits, “Danny Glover,” the models (which included a wonderfully apathetic Mr. ![]() On February 11th, 2016, approximately 70 minutes into Kanye West’s YEEZY Season 3 fashion show-turned-album premiere at Madison Square Garden, the aux cord started to get passed around like it’s a college dorm room and not one of the most renowned arenas ever constructed. ![]()
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