May 8, 2016

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DISCLAIMER:
so before we get started I'd just like to say that I have around 400 young thug tagged tracks in my itunes, and that's maybe 50% of everything he's done since he first started. this isn't a list of the best songs he's ever made (that would honestly be easier), but just my favorite -- as well as I could rank them.@Squid did a top 10 list so I tried to make one myself and that snowballed into 20...30....f--- it 50....and now, as I'm getting to start this list...I made a list of ANOTHER 50 tracks, broken down into songs that came out "too recently," my "favorite features," and songs "i just forgot so f--- me."

I'll start this list in a bit with these bonus 50 tracks. And hopefully by like Tuesday we can start with the real list. for the real list I'll prolly write what I can for each track.
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HONORABLE MENTIONS PT. 1 -- Songs that came out too recently (no order):
1. Hercules
2. King TROUP
3. For My People
4. Texas Love
5. Worth It
6. Tattoos
7. Digits
8. Drippin
HONORABLE MENTIONS PT. 2 -- Informal Favorite Features (no order):
1. Trapper Girl (most played thug song in my itunes)
2. Blood (one of the best features ever)
3. Treasure (one of my favoirte thug verses ever)
4. Good Times (one of thug's best songs ever)
5. About the Money (come on)
6. Home Alone
7. Aint Goin Back
8. Lil Mama
9. Mamacita
10. Chanel Vintage
11. Old English
HONORABLE MENTIONS PT. 3 -- f--- Me, Track I forgot (no order pt. 1):
1. Tell Her Nothing
2. Wanna Be Me
3. Paradise
4. Pacifier
5. Dream
6. 1017 lifestyle
7. Alphabetical order
8. I Aint Drunk Yet
9. Get That Money
10. Be Me See Me
HONORABLE MENTIONS PT. 4 -- f--- Me, Track I forgot (no order, pt. 2):
11. Would Wood
12. Pull Up on a Kid
13. Jungle
14. Danny Glover
15. Stoner
16. Bricks
17. Drawn Down
18. Bullet
19. My Everything
20. Let Me Live
HONORABLE MENTIONS PT. 5 -- f--- Me, Track I forgot (no order, pt. 3):
21. Should I
22. Up Up & Away
23. Keep In Touch
24. Back in the Days
25. UdiggwhatImsayin
26. Mine
27. I Got
28. Hold Us
29. Imma Ride
30. Never Made Love
31. I Mean
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50. Amazing
49. Miss U
48. Nigera
47. Magnificent
46. That
45. Picacho
44. I Swear To God
43. Loaded
42. Rollin Rollin
41. My Baby
40. Constantly Hating
39. 2 Cups Stuffed
38. Strange Things
37. Makaveli
36. That's All
35. Freestyle
34. Just Might Be
33. The Promise
32. Best Friend
31. Spaghetti
30. Proud of Me
29. I Just Might
28. Keep It Leave
27. Red Star
26. Keep it Going
25. Spaghetti
24. She Notice
23. Check
22. See You
21. Hey, I
20. Raw
19. Flaws
18. Just Might Be
17. Take Kare
16. Myself
15. You the One
14. Again
13. No Way
12. Flava
11. Friend of Scotty
10. Free Gucci
9. Tell Em (Lies)
8. Pelican Fly
7. Freaky
6. Calling Your Name
5. The Blanguage
4. Halftime
3. Love Me Forever
2. Guarantee
1. Givenchy​

 

May 23, 2016

1. Givenchy

I can't think of one example where anyone raps like Thug does on Givenchy. It's rapping worthy of Birdman's intro; rapping worthy of gold toilets and chandeliers and the superpower of never being hungover. The ethereal aura set by the first elongated note is carried fluidly into the restrained hook and then used as a seamless lead in for a verse about love. But it's all a front. What starts out as a moving ballad, an ode to eating her out Now & Later and putting your heart in her pocket, shifts suddenly halfway through: the love turns to lust, the touching transparency into defiance. Thug takes the heart that was on his sleeve and eats it in front of his fiancee.* He'd love to put something in her stomach, something right under her lungs, he knows they're twins -- but he's got too much on his mind. His tempered crooning gives way to violent tantrums, because drugs don't stop -- and you know he can't either. They're all watching him like a f---in' cable box, and he's the President -- blacker than Barrack. He's spent a thousand on a Flock, no Wak. He's been kicked out of college, he only bleeds red, and he's really thuggin like Bones n Harmony.

And once he bares his soul, he only has one question left for his girl: would you ride for your n-----?

It's a lot to take in, of course, but I'd like to imagine his girl went for his honest proposal.

*lmao only included that line because of how silly it reads

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THE END.​

 

May 19, 2016

3. Love Me Forever

Young Thug is his own worst enemy. He is the sole reason his rapping is as experimental and otherworldly as it is, but he needs a Tumay in his circle to focus his creativity. Young Thug has adhd I swear -- and this is just based on his own words. He hops from topic to topic within a 16 bar verse, he keeps a studio near him where ever he goes so that he can translate new thoughts/words/phrases into songs at the drop of a hat, he forms alliances with random artists every single day. He has a tape with Post Malone. A Tape with Fetty Wap. A tape with the Migos. A tape with Metro.

Basically, he loves hard and fast. Even if it isn't always in his benefit. And that's probably what happened when Thug heard a chopped & screwed song one day and proceeded to have his 1 and only misstep in the past year or so: he asked Tumay to make Love Me sound like the song he heard...and fans have been pulling their hair out about it ever since.

At one point, I even heard he said to slow it down so we could hear/understand every word -- thats just how much he liked Love Me. Great intentions, I guess, but man how misguided was that s---. In the end, even with great collaborators around him, the final say still goes to Thug. And he can be his own worst enemy.

The original leaked version of Love Me is one of my favorite love songs ever. From the way he emotes to how quirky and lovable the writing itself is, this track is perfection. He wants to turn you to wifey, give you wife things, and bend knee. He cares about your destiny.

Its crazy that this is from the Rich g--- era -- I wonder how many other joints like this (Feel It, for example) we've yet to hear. Above all, I think Thug is at is best when in this groove.

The second verse is one of my favorite Thug verses to date. Every line is a quotable.

Shine it up then bounce it, climbing in it just like a mountain
My bankroll big like a bouncer, spitting game like a counselor
Big old cross like a pastor, pop that p---- like a Snapple
b---- I'm bleeding, where the napkins?
Bite the red like an apple
Screaming free my brothers, I still sleep with my mother
Last week I made a quarter, plus I still respect others
I can't believe it's not butter, that little b---- might be my supper
I get respect from her brother, crenshaw boolin, Nipsey Hussle
Still prepared for them arrest, YSL we goin wrestle
Chanel pouch on my left, f--- the cops we don't play
Benjamins, Grants talk back, I be like "who is that?"
They be like "where you at?", meet at the Valet at Sax


Screaming free my brothers, I still sleep with my mother/Last week I made a quarter, plus I still respect others...still gets me to this day.

Scratched out the alphabet cept B, b----...whoa. She standin' naked bookin bicken. whoa.

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May 19, 2016

5. The Blanguage

In the running for one of the best remixes of all time. One of the best Young Thug songs to date. If 2 cups stuffed and Danny Glover introduced a reluctant Narsh to Young Thug, Blanguage convinced me he was the best rapper on the planet. The handful of songs that are ahead of it are simply because I've formed a more personal connection with them, for various reasons.

I'm a fan of Drake's The Language. It was my most played song off of NWTS (and one of the most played in my itunes in general I think lol). I love the nonchalance, I love his voice/delivery (despite the corniness of the actual hook). This remix makes it entirely irrelevant. Young Thug is approx. 5 billion times the rapper Drake is. He's the better vocalist as well, on top of having a more interesting writing style, a more engaging narrative, and just a better body of work. But just take these two tracks: Thug creates his own language, panders to no one, and redefines what it means to be a great rapper in this decade -- what exactly did Drake do again?

Thug channels ad libs from MJ, squeaks like prime Wayne but raps like all he listened to was Andre growing up. The devil caught his soul, riding his back like a camel, and Thug flails throughout the entire track trying to get rid of his presence. From his booth, he paints a picture of wealth and extravagance tinted by paranoia. He's on the outskirts, chasin' green smokin on orange kush, feelin like a cantaloupe. He pulls up to the Intercontinental and hops out of his recently dirtied Phantom, he teleports from his booth to a banana boat, time travels back to when he made his baby sitter drink his vanilla, and somehow ends up back to where he started -- banging blood, he could never flue it.

This is, without a doubt, one of the best rap songs of the decade.

Is it a parade?
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May 18, 2016

8. Pelican Fly

Only One, Hold Us, Pelican Fly and Choke all came out right around new years 2015. I remember a single tear rolling down my cheek as I passed out listening to Only One on some random persons couch that night, then getting rid of the hangover the next morning with the other three tracks. Hold us is a collab w RHQ and Peewee Longway while Choke is w RHQ and Nipsey Hussle..and Thug is crazy good on both.

But the standout even back then was the one solo track out of the bunch -- Pelican f---ing Fly. The title, probably ripped from this Wayne song (which was probably ripped from this Scarface scene) is the name of my poorly kept blog. Over the past year, this phenomenal track has gone from an impressive but poorly mixed/kind of abrasive loosie to legit one of the best examples of what makes Young Thug work.

It's overwhelmingly euphoric. Forces you to feel what he feels. It might because I've written about 42 other songs already, but its really hard to verbalize why I love Pelican Fly so much. He shrieks "oh god" like he's climaxing, builds tepees on the runway, runs off on his plug, and sees birds every Sunday (no Falcons). All in time for Magic City on a Monday, ay.

This is my roommates favorite young thug song (he's gotten a crash course in his music since moving last September)

Dun Deal comes through, just like with Friend of Scotty, and proves why him and Thug are the OG goat duo.

Thug steals a line Wayne already delivered with infectious bravado, and takes it to unimaginable heights. He turns the phrase over and over again until youre drunk off words. He doesn't give a d--- what you say to him. He's got a hood, he's Trayvon good. But his cars got no hood, in case you misunderstood. He's in his zone and can't find his way home. They flooded Atlanta, and all he wants to do is dodge the drama and give his girl weird-a--- nicknames like Timber (cuz he loves the wood, get it?). He just wants to let her know she's pelican fly.

He takes off running...and has yet to cease his forward momentum. There's no finish line in sight.

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May 19, 2016

4. Halftime

When BLB periscoped Thug's show in Texas the other day, the same one @El Ares was at, all Thug had to was mutter the words "halftime" -- and the crowd broke out into an acapella call and response with the rapper. They went through the first half of the first verse (from what I recall), reciting every line by heart as Thug did his own ad libs. Coincidentally, it's the only part of the song that anyone can even feel comfortable rapping along with.

We all want to rap the whole thing. Some of us might even think we can. But nah. We all now it's next to impossible. Say "every time I see her lick her cleavage f--- her on a $10,000 bed" in double time for me. Oh okay, so you practiced that. Well how bout:

"Lil n----- play, I'mma catch him down bad and then stick ‘em fold 'em like a wallet
I swear to God there's only one of me and these b------s 3 deep like atrident
I’m walkin' through it like tons of the ones and these b------s grabbin', I'm at Follies
f--- n----- try me I swear to God lil whodie done pull up and pop at his noggin"

pew pew pew pew. Yeah, that's what I thought.

I once said that this was the best rap song of the decade. I think there's definitely an argument to be made there.

This might be the most quotable young thug song to date, despite his flow giving us whiplash at every turn. It's not only one of the best examples of his technical ability but also his tendencies to s--- out melodic, auto-tune heavy bridges that I feel like Kanye and Wayne would die for (heyyy....lets have a very good time). It's a staple in my group of friends. It's a staple in his discog. It also might have my favorite music video of his.

Every time I post, it goes mofuckin viral (shout out to @Charlie).
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oh and

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May 18, 2016

6. Calling Your Name

The best song of all time I dont give a f---. The soundtrack to my life.

Another song, higher up on this list, will be played at my wedding -- this will be played at the reception. Aliani is gonna have me lookin' like the Mayor. I know how it feels to be so broke that you got jokes, so you best believe this is going to be the most extravagant night of my life. Im a winner. In a beamer. And, if @Mike Tyson is invited, I know we're gonn have 4 ounces in a liter hidden away somewhere. Imma freak my wife like 3 R Kellys that night, making her forget about the strippers I was making smile the night before (cuz I gave them hope when I rolled thru w money stacked up like 3 shelves). I'll be livin' that life.

And, before long, we'll have a baby. And Pedialyte will be the most important thing in our lives.

Until then though, my water is blue like a genie, I'm singin duets with Ellie Goulding, and Imma protect my girl like a seatbelt.


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May 17, 2016

10. Free Gucci

I jokingly called this a love song before. I wasn't really joking. I remember CharlieWork tried to write this off as average when it dropped. He was wrong. It's probably a top 5 MetroThuggin track to date. And even if it isn't, f--- you this is my list of favorite tracks. Everything is gucci, everytang is guuuuci though. I just had to get that out of the way. If you don't wanna get left, get it right.

Chief Keef and Lil Durk, lean and shrooms, Harry Potter's broom (the Nimbus or Firebolt??) and drop top vipers w twin turbos that go zoom zoom. It's a song about nothing but feels like everything thats right about Thug. It don't matter what you b---, a real n-----'s always got stainless -- and every time Thug's had a strap he's used it. There's always been plenty fightin' like hadoken. Although, if given a choice, he'd prefer to keep his diamonds and his girl's (and her buddy's) coochie equally moist. Thug floods his roley and can't seem to get rid of the two stuffed cups in his hand no matter how much he flails.

An ethereal, operatic, wail soars throughout one of Metro's best beats to date. The ad libs are more important than the words. He's good. He's blood. He's hood.

Despite one of his closest mentors to date being incarcerated, everythings gucci.

everythings gucci.

slatt slatt.

Free Big Gucci Mane.

Guuuuwiiiiizzzzzaaaa.
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May 16, 2016

13. No Way
I'll never understand what they decided to push and what they decided to ignore for SS1/2. Well...now that I'm actually thinking about it...maybe they just didnt have the budget to really push anything..? Best Friend blew up organically and they gave it the video it deserved, but nothing else off of 1/2 had the same type of success outside of "Power" (which honestly could've been done on a very humble budget -- it's just footage of thug's personal basketball court + when they were overseas) They completely ignored tracks like Freaky, Calling your Name, and No Way. The leaks f----- up Thugs trajectory in so many ways. It would've been SO crippling for any other artist. Im assuming the idea of repackaging so many leaked tracks is part of the reason ss1 had no real budget for music videos and s---...but due its success they had mor eto work with for SS2 (hence the attempts at blowing up big racks and thief in the night...then again, they shouldve done Pull Up on a Kid as well but never did).

Tracks as genuinely magical as No Way not getting the recognition they deserve is such a shame. It's okay though, because he's the future and the present, baby. And he's here to stay. Each verse showcases multiple different ways Thug can twist the english language to his cuh-man, and I doubt the sky-i is even a high of ceiling for this man. The way Tumay strings together Thug's soulful harmonies is seamless. The London beat twinkles with an innocence only Thug's childlike outlook of the world can match.

Imagine anyone else rapping to this beat. No way.

These p---- n----s peasants and Thug's got skinny jeans with a weapon.


12. Flava
One of the greatest hooks of all time (blessed by OJ Mayo himself). A fully loaded Birdman verse (hot n----- dont stop). A stellar RHQ sermon (he's got more verses than the bible). And a stunning final act by the best rapper of this decade (who chases cougars while wearin crew cuts in his down time).

The only reason this masterpiece isnt in my top 10 is because I overplayed it. Actually though. It's top 10 most played in my iTunes. I haven't even really played it like that in a YEAR and it's still sitting up there (on the top, bored, no neighbor).

Whatever tho Im gonna go cop a roley (yes a rolex) and bowflex on a n----- idgaf about these lists smh (says the guy that made 2 "rank these" threads already today)


11. Friend of Scotty
Man a lot of you are probably thinkin' I'm putting this ahead of so many other worthy cuts just to be flagrant and s--- but I'm not b. If Flava is in my top 10 on iTunes...Friend of Scotty, believe it or not, is in like the top 5. Hundreds of plays. For a random loosie. That a good amount of people (including my friend irl who f---s w thug as much as me) don't even rate that highly aside from laughing at the "blunt look like a d-ck" line.

But nah b. Nah. No one's trying to start s--- here, I legitimately think this song is great. And where Flava, due mainly to its length, eventually reached the point where I overplayed it...Friend of Scotty has yet to find that ledge. That's gotta count for something...

Goose and Thug are extremely underrated together (he's given us s--- like Calling Your Name for f---s sake). The oddly intoxicating production is a perfect match for the weirdo rapping about smoking d----s and eating your girl's pizza.

There's something about the melody to this hook that I'm never gonna forget, for the rest of my life man. The whole "I want your piece of pizza I want...so bad I swipe my Visa Visa...I want."

The hooks actually pretty menacing though if you break it down lol. He's in love with a chick he's serving crack to it...and he's accidently turned her into a fiend. Friend of Thugger...now she a friend of Scotty. But his jovial delviery and the silly a--- trumpets or whatever Goose has going on helps you (and probably Thug) forget about all that.

He's just doing his best...like the fifth grade test. Wait tho lmao...imagine that. Last time Thug tried his hardest was tryina make the 6th grade, and only because his bro was gonna buy him a f---in' car if he did

Also there's the 5th, 6th, michael vick (7th), and lil tic (8 mile) wordplay thing going on there. And this is the first track I think I heard Thug use the worse "therefore" lol. He also rhymes truancy/flick with me/italy/ten-a-piece/missin me/tiffanys in the 2nd verse.

idk man i just love this track.

Birds fly high, but you fly higher

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May 8, 2016

HONORABLE MENTIONS PT. 3 -- f--- Me, Track I forgot (no order, pt. 1):
1. Tell Her Nothing

2. Wanna Be Me

3. Paradise

4. Pacifier

5. Dream

6. 1017 lifestyle

7. Alphabetical order

8. I Aint Drunk Yet

9. Get That Money

10. Be Me See Me

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May 23, 2016

2. Guarantee

My wedding song. I can only hope I find love as real as Thug apparently has. He has love for any and everyone, like the Mayor, but his passion for his fiancee is unmatched. If she has aids -- he wants it. If she has herpes -- he wants it. From the way she shakes it to the way she pull up in that coupe he bought her, she's got game -- and he wants it all for himself. The plot twist turns out to be that he's chosen a woman so fiercely independent that she doesn't want anybody -- not even him. It doesn't help that he's a player, gettin' hoes like Olympians and passin' em around like basketballs. She sees through his facade. All he can hope for is that she hears the genuine desire in his voice and his promise to go and bring her the world.

I leave and I come right back home to you.

A prime example of the range young thug possess stylistically as well as his peculiar quirks as a writer. In a post-Wayne/Kanye world, you can't help but look at the type of emoting found on tracks such as this, or Wanna Be Me, and come to the conclusion that it's the epitome of everything they ever wanted to accomplish with this style. You can't look at the embellished and cartoonish writing being delivered with such a heartfelt flair and not be swept away by the conviction. Every now and then it just feels like Thug catches the holy ghost, only its the spirit of every great musician to ever live each with their phantom hand on Thug's shoulder as he pulls off a SSJ2 Gohan one-arm Kamehameha against Cell.

I can't express in words how much I love the last minute or so of this track. Specifically, the last 20 seconds -- where he just starts wee-ing and woohoo-ing. It's magic.

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May 12, 2016

25. Spaghetti
Just listen.


24. She Notice
Im so glad this made it on to ss2 after it leaked like a month in advance.


23. Check
Young Thug made this song after recieving a very large check while in the studio. He then called BLB to record a video to this song one day while him and his crew were eating (and stealing tank tops) at Hooters. They got on the tour bus with Birdman and the rest is history.


22. See You
I only have 1 line to quote:

I am the black kid, worried are my folks.

Uncle Sam (f--- you, pay me), (ice skating like) Lupe Fiasco, Oprah Winfrey whips, and Fonzworth Bently umbrellas. Sex on boats. Dying with ice in your ears. Bands (yes, I meant plural). What a phenomenal song.


21. Hey, I
This song has Thug declaring his intentions to impregnate his fiancee (guess 6 kids isn't enough), and asking god for forgiveness because he brought someone as perfect as her into his life. When people say Thug isn't poignant or makes music about nothing I really don't get it. Not only can he make music about nothing better than anyone else, he's also penning verses like this consistently:

I, done completed my little mission​

I, put something in your stomach next to your kidney
I, want nothing to do with none of these lil b------s
I, want something to do with everything and I'm willing
To go to church and ask God there for forgiveness
For everything and tell that preacher that I'm gon' remember
Him bringing You in my life and that's on my children
f--- all them other hoes talking, they Wendy Williams
Now your wrist got ice like December
I pour out the paint like Mutumbo
I'mma f---ing lion like Simba
And, yeah my girl ballin' like Kendra​

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May 10, 2016

45. Picacho
Inexplicable euphoria at it's finest. My diamonds too look like Pikachu. And you know what's weird? I got this watch in Italy, but the current time says New York??


44. I Swear To God
I discovered this via some story about how it was mixed by Kanye...I've since to find any proof of this and just let it go. It would make sense though as Thug's voice is mixed with percision and a vision for something outside the norm. It's one of his best auto-tune reliant tracks and showcases the subtleties of his emotive ability, always a throat clear away from a new flow. And add the fact that him and London can go from tracks like Magnificent to this to the list of reasons why Hitunes should've been out yesterday. A bunch of gems throughout at well from "she look like Nicki Minaj, her body aint got no scars" to "And I'm ready for war, I hope you ready to see spaghetti" (which helped me realize what he meant on spaghetti lol). She cookin' with no clothes, and he's praying for Unfunk to be freed (like from the mofuckin zoo).

How many times I had to tell you they aint your friends? Believe it or not they wanna be in your position.


43. Loaded
One of the first tracks to become a staple in my group of friends outside of Treasure or About The Money (and Blanguage). Im pretty sure this was my next step after 2 cups stuffed and Danny Glover clicked with me. Who the f--- told you lil n----s you was soldiers? Peewee also kills it.

I know Donald Trump...I was 15 years old when I shot that chopper.
I bought a carbon 15 when i was 18 (and what?)...sent a couple n----s to the doctors.


42. Rollin Rollin
Like with "That," it's hard explain the aesthetic of a track like this without just calling "blissful." Thug's perpetually in a forest somewhere, draped in carats, hunting rabbits and inviting mares back to his cabin. "She like my tunes, I feel looney," he realizes, before declaring "Assalakum, Assalam." It's a magic cartoon wonderland.


41. My Baby
When this leaked prior to SS2 I was floored. The powerhouse of a hook has him singing "holy ghost with an angel, holy moly my lingo" and it's hard not to forget that a couple bars ago he was just rapping about throwing d-ck in the hole like Eli/Peyton Manning.

She love the fact I dress like a Prince but I'm a boy.


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May 9, 2016

50. Amazing
The most underrated cut on Barter 6, "Amazing" meshes seemingly contrasting influences down into a single, strip-club ready ballad. You can hear sampled yodeling in the background, Jacquees is unintrusive yet fitting, and if you listen closely, Thug whispers his amazement at just how far his team's come from the dirt. That last verse is classic. Only rapper to pull off burping on a track, sorry Eminem.


49. Miss U
To me, a great singer is one who is engaging. You can hit every note as perfectly as you want, but if there's soul in your execution -- then why am I listening? In his earliest days, with obviously no professional training whatsoever, this is what Thug had -- soul. When he was screeching about his girl taking a trip to "Thug's world," it was emphatic. When he hit's that last "miss you" on the hook, it's fleeting but poignant. The tremble in his voice might have been an accident, h--- -- his whole career might be an accident. But it's captivating nevertheless. Besides all that s---, the verses are clever in the most childish way possible, and that "mwah mwah" adlib is pure GOLD.


48. Nigera
See above for what made Thug's less than refined sining work in the past. Imaging hearing this hook and not being immedaitely drawn into the psychedlic soundscape created purely by his voice -- the instrumentation is inconsquential. Singing along to this track is theraputic.


47. Magnificent
One of my more recent tracks that was just old enough to make the cut. If this is the kind of off the wall s--- London and Thug have in the vault, then I really can't wait another f---ing day for Hitunes. Thug shuffles through a hundred flows, treats perplexingly clever lines like throwaways ("I am magnificent I'm cookin chickens and my neck is red like a hen") and pulls off hilariously gross imagery like no-one else this generation (aside from maybe Danny Brown) can successfully pull off ("nutted on the b----'s pants and she told her old man it was spit"). Also, who is this "Monica" he mentions in the outro?!


46. That
One of the most feel good leaks, sentenced to be forever lost in the noise that is Thug's incessant output. It's hard to put in words just what makes this song work.The track as a whole, from the beat (that I think might be Wheezy?) to the lackadaisical way in which Thug approaches it, is just blissful. The anthemic hook about diving into your girl like this was the Olympics or some s---, the way he contorts his voice at the start of the 2nd verse, or for the line "stick this d-ck inside her everyday," it all adds up to a instant mood-changer of a song.

Me like the smell of monie you did what im sayin?



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May 8, 2016

DISCLAIMER:
so before we get started I'd just like to say that I have around 400 young thug tagged tracks in my itunes, and that's maybe 50% of everything he's done since he first started. this isn't a list of the best songs he's ever made (that would honestly be easier), but just my favorite -- as well as I could rank them. @Squid did a top 10 list so I tried to make one myself and that snowballed into 20...30....f--- it 50....and now, as I'm getting to start this list...I made a list of ANOTHER 50 tracks, broken down into songs that came out "too recently," my "favorite features," and songs "i just forgot so f--- me."

I'll start this list in a bit with these bonus 50 tracks. And hopefully by like Tuesday we can start with the real list. for the real list I'll prolly write what I can for each track.
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May 13, 2016

Just gonna do what I can from now, not 5 at a time.

15. You the One
This one flucated between top 10 and top 20 every day since I first made this thread. On one hand, it's a random leaked "throaway," and there are a bunch incredible completed tracks I purposefully list off this top 50 (wanna be me, pacifier, drawn down etc). But on the other, with literally over 100 love songs to his name, easily, this might be top 10 for me. And its one of the ones that keeps having me come back to it repeatedly...even tho I've never even downloaded the track. I just listen to it on youtube. smh. I should fix that.

But anyways...it's perfect. If the released it officially it'd be a hit. There's nothing abrasive about it. It's clear in its intentions and genuine in its emotion. He just wants to marry his fiance. And cash out, even tho he's not Cash Out. It's absolutely beautiful, if you ask me.

Yeah..yeaaaaah


14. Again
Within the first week of this dropping it became a top 10 played song in my itunes. literally 200 plays within a week. it was built for it for f---s sake..opening with such a great gucci verse (even if it isnt new), and then following it up with one of thug's most catchy verses ever. all under 3 mins when its all said and done. Leaves you no choice but to play it again...and again..and again. pun intended, by them and me i think.

My b---- white and she brown like a port
Edumacation abort
Bookin these dorks
I hopped off the porch and went north

He doesn't speak english, and he'll f--- that mouth cuz he's not sexist. And that "I dont want your verse on my remix" bar is deff a Drake diss don't @ me.

yo..just imagine when gucci gets out tho. god d---.


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May 10, 2016

40. Constantly Hating
Is this even rap? All I know is that it's a spellbiding intro to one of the most psychedllic hip hop albums this decade.

n----- I'm a crack addcit.


39. 2 Cups Stuffed
Literally the first Thug song that ever clicked for me. After John Daniel (rapper friend of lasik/wpg etc) kept posting it on Facebook in 2014 I finally gave it a try and got a surprising dose of punk, not hip hop. And I was instantly more curious that Danny Glover had ever made me. Much to @Mikey's relief tho, the aesthetic Thug had for the 1017 era makes even my most favorite tracks from then peak at around here...I just enjoy the more evolved Thug that's come into his own since then.


38. Strange Things
Brooding, wavering rumination. About everything from how lean makes dudes do strange things to how his girl keeps it fr fr for real. From having 50 grams in his longjohns, to how the world is really gay for taking the good young. Free Tay Tay.

And I'm so tired of hearing bout prison, I really hope I make it.


37. Makaveli
Have to keep this a bit short because Im meeting a friend for lunch but I could write an essay on this song. When I saw "beast" on the SS2 tracklist I was so excited to hear this finished but alas we weren't so lucky. This, along with The Promise, need to be used for something. It's a f---ing shame if they aren't. Spit-fire delivery and a myriad of flows, but, this time, storytelling thrown in cuz why not. Thug goes on about how his girl never remembers how she hopped on his wood and caught a splinter, but always keeps track of when he played around on Tindr. In his own cartoonish fashion he succintly breaks down the dynamic between him and his girl.

But the best part is is when he throws all that lucidity aside to prophetically claim that he went from "rapping to reggae," or that whole bridge where he does an ode to Wayne's Mrs. Officer or sings about driving around Atlanta.

CHOPPA CITTTTTTYYYYYYY


36. That's All
One of the best/and now underrated leaks. Weird how a song that starts out about how Thug just gets his girl to give him top, thats all, while she f---s all his buddies, ends up being a genuine love song.

I might eat it, I might beat it, like Mike Ike.
Treat that p---- tempurpedic and call it a night.
She compliment my fly and aint talkin no flight.
Therefore I love her.

She remembers everything about him, and in an age of fleeting familiarity that's clearly something he cherishes. By the end of the track he's threatening to k--- her if she doesn't accept his proposal.

I get on my knees
If I can't have you you deceased.

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May 8, 2016

HONORABLE MENTIONS PT. 1 -- Songs that came out too recently (no order):

1. Hercules


2. King TROUP


3. For My People


4. Texas Love


5. Worth It


6. Tattoos


7. Digits


8. Drippin


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May 18, 2016

9. Tell Em (Lies)

Imma pull up eat on that p---- and dip. Imma keep one inside the chamber like Wilt. Baby girl spoiled she spoiled like milk.

Tell me that isn't one of the best hooks of all time. Tell me this isn't one of the best Rich g--- songs you've ever heard. Tell me this wasn't in your top 10 favorite Thug songs at some point. Tell me "Imma look over these b------s like terms and conditions" isn't one of the best opening lines to ever exist.

Rich Homie's girl would rather text instead of talk on phones (and he loves that), Thug's girl says she can do the same thing as 5 b------s (so he went and fired those 5 b------s). They're both full of lust being tricked into love. There's something about her...she took their lives and they wanna steal it back. But they learn to embrace it, letting their women turn them into hopeless romantics.

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May 12, 2016

30. Proud of Me
This is one of the best examples there is for Thug's pop sensibility. Reworking Roue 94's "My Love," he spins a euphoric hook that's part anti-snitching PSA, part ode to Gucci. The song itself is entirely a love song though and features some of Thug's more endearing euphemisms. He goes from whispering "take care of that p----, scared to go in it like woods" to doing the hoochie coochie and havin a private party, bently boolin by the end. My favorite bit is definitely:

I'm losing my voice I can not speak, right, every d--- night​

We get a kick out it like Spike
Whenever I do not see her she wanna fight
I just wanna hold her like a mic
No Tyson, I wont one night, I wanna wife it
And buy it everything that it desires​

By the end of that passage he's slurring every word into the next in a dizzying fashion and it's just so d--- good.

Maybe this will still get an official release...almost all versions of it keep getting removed from youtube and s---.
http://baseshare.com/DJFaze/songs/Young-Thug-Proud-Of-Me/10580/

29. I Just Might
One of the first Thug songs I ever, like, got addicted to. It was in the top 15 of this list until like 10 mins ago lmao. Im still scrambling to balance nostalgia with the Thug songs I think are irreplaceable to me. Top 30 is just as good as top 15 for Thug anyways so whatever. The sweeping piano for this tarck sets a dramatic backdrop for Thug and, as usual, he raps his alien raps with no care in the world. He just might spend a milli, he just might come out the gambling spot broke today. As long as you never stop, he won't either. And he knows that if he ever takes a trip to China, they'll embrace the lil homie.

Last but not least, he's an angel in the sky, he looks down drive bys. d---.


28. Keep it Leave
Discovering this song was an accident. And now its in my top 30 favorite Thug songs ever. That it self speaks volumes about his discog. I was watching a vlog Metro posted a whiiiile ago where Thug was listening to the I Mean/Live from the Gutter beat and out of nowhere it went into a snippet of this song (which became my avy for a minute). I thought it was only a snippet but a quick youtube search and guess what? It leaked like every other f---ing Thug song ever. It's such a good song dawg.

Beside the obvious bits like the "metro" call outs or the entire "u dig.....i dig" bit, that little melody for "I don't wanna play unless I'm on a bar" had me playing the song back for like a month straight.

I don't know where he gets these melodies from.


27. Red Star
One of the most underrated leaks and a complete b-----r. He's Michael Jackson's Thriller, you're just a caterpillar. He's a big ol dinosaur, a big ol Red Star like the Texaco, and you're just a midget.

Here's to hoping him being on tour with TM means we get more 808 Mafia x Thug collabs.


26. Keep it Going
I was an advocate for this song since Tha Tour first dropped, but it got overlooked for the longest time. It's a breathtaking how-to-rap clinic that's beyond words to be honest. Every line becomes a quotable, every one of the 100 voices he has finds its home in the surreal beat,

His diamonds are shinin like corn on the cob and he gets respect whenever he lands in New York like Bobby Shmurda so back the f--- up.

Also, imagine being Thugs kid. Right before your about to finally fall asleep after a long day of watching blues clues and lion king, your dad bursts into the room, wakes you up with purpose, and gives you some sage advice: I cannot be worried bout no b----. Cuz I know a b---- could be somewhere suckin a d-ck. Ay.


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