Thug at his true peak

Started by Jeans, Nov 6, 2020, in Music Add to Reading List

  1. DKC
    Posts: 23,125
    Likes: 80,641
    Joined: Nov 23, 2014

    DKC hank trill

    Nov 7, 2020
    Nah by that time there was virtually no difference between albums and tapes—especially something like Barter 6 or Tha Tour. Barter 6 was his "debut album" until he decided it wasn't. It's just semantics and marketing.
     
    #21
    2
    Jay Zeus and Ordinary Joel like this.
    2
    Jay Zeus and Ordinary Joel like this.
    Mar 29, 2024
  2. DKC
    Posts: 23,125
    Likes: 80,641
    Joined: Nov 23, 2014

    DKC hank trill

    Nov 7, 2020
    I'm very happy to see that you like Thug—but wipe that term from your vocabulary man all it serves to do is devalue music that people don't like because it doesn't fit in the box that they think rap should fit in. Plus if you like the Slime Seasons, you're bound to like some of his other stuff.
     
    Wreckless, Jay Zeus and Ordinary Joel like this.
    Mar 29, 2024
  3. Jay Zeus
    Posts: 5,117
    Likes: 7,903
    Joined: Aug 7, 2011

    Jay Zeus I am the god-favored weed strain

    Nov 7, 2020
    Dee n----s so behind, they don't understand why dust-heads like myself rock with Uzi, Carti, Uno, and Fauni as hard as we do. Or maybe I'm just a one of one at 31.

    I'm not quite sure. But it all starts with The Conceptualizing Patriarch of This Latter-Millennial Developed and Melodically Contortive Style that Thug Pioneered (With a little prefacing from Nayvay and Dwayne), alongside The Drill Sensation that is Big Gucci Sosa. Without Keith & Jeff, we wouldn't have gotten 2017 Trippie Redd. XXXTentacion.

    2015 Playboi Carti. Aggressive Lil Uzi Vert. Uno & Fauni. I could go on. People who showed so much promise at a time most were sleeping and saying inventiveness was dead in Hip-Hop/Rap and there was no more room for ground to be broken. These acts I mentioned were of a different breed when they were just neophytes.
     
    #23
    2
    Ordinary Joel and DKC like this.
    2
    Ordinary Joel and DKC like this.
    Mar 29, 2024
  4. Wreckless
    Posts: 11,057
    Likes: 22,675
    Joined: May 18, 2015

    Nov 7, 2020
    That's why I put "mumble rap" in quotes. I really don't know what to call it lol.
     
    #24
    2
    Ordinary Joel and DKC like this.
    2
    Ordinary Joel and DKC like this.
    Mar 29, 2024
  5. Wreckless
    Posts: 11,057
    Likes: 22,675
    Joined: May 18, 2015

    Nov 7, 2020
    Everybody is entitled to their opinion and taste in music, bud. Has nothing to do with being behind.

    And not to start an argument but Young Thug didn't really pioneer anything. Lil Wayne did. A lot of those guys were inspired by Wayne.
     
    #25
    0 0
    Mar 29, 2024
  6. DKC
    Posts: 23,125
    Likes: 80,641
    Joined: Nov 23, 2014

    DKC hank trill

    Nov 7, 2020
    Wayne is one of the greatest pioneers to ever live but Thug used that foundation to build something entirely different that we’ve already begun to see reverberations from. Easily one of the most influential rappers of the past decade. No one else was rapping like thug until a few years ago.
     
    #26
    3
    Ordinary Joel, Zeugma and Jay Zeus like this.
    3
    Ordinary Joel, Zeugma and Jay Zeus like this.
    Mar 29, 2024
  7. WPG
    Posts: 11,861
    Likes: 22,505
    Joined: Feb 15, 2011

    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Nov 7, 2020
    thug was at first absolutely standing on wayne’s shoulders. the test for whether thug himself is influential is this question: are there rappers who are clearly influenced by him but not clearly influenced by wayne? the answer is yes.
     
    Mar 29, 2024
  8. Jay Zeus
    Posts: 5,117
    Likes: 7,903
    Joined: Aug 7, 2011

    Jay Zeus I am the god-favored weed strain

    Nov 7, 2020
    f--- yes. And I love Prime Wayne, but yeh.
     
    #28
    2
    Ordinary Joel and WPG like this.
    2
    Ordinary Joel and WPG like this.
    Mar 29, 2024