Mar 28, 2025

I'm probably one of the people w music taste more similar to yours (not liking r----- music like harambe and carti's pop out s--- lol) *cough @DKC * and here's some thug music I like:
























A couple of thug songs I really enjoy! Curious how u feel about these

 

Mar 28, 2025

I agree to an extent, but I think Thug can do a lot of different sounds (the songs I posted have a lot of different stuff too) and he's not your typical mumble rapper imo. He does have some stuff for everyone.

But the weirdo s--- is not for me either. I can understand for example enjoying some of it, but how anyone can enjoy songs like this



It's honestly no offence to people that do, anyone should listen to what they like. But I can't imagine people older than 16 not finding this f---ing embarrassing lmao

 

Mar 28, 2025

Trap back is one of my most played songs. It slapsssss and is also catchy as h--- man.

 

Mar 28, 2025

I talk about open mindedness in rap cuz it's the genre I know best by far and what I listen to the most. I'd be talking out my a--- if I was talking about open mindedness in say grunge for example — cuz my only real experience with the genre is Nirvana (apologies in advance for being a bad Seattleite lol). I've heard some Alice In Chains and Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots but never sat down and listened to a full album by any of them.

I'm open to recs from any genre really, but this forum is obviously super rap centric for better and for worse. But that's why I was intrigued by the mixtapes in @Justin Trudeau thread cuz just from skimming some of em it looked like a lot of them weren't rap centric at all. I have your playlist loaded up on Spotify btw, still gotta listen tho. I can't see anything ever overtaking rap as my favorite genre but I really do want to expand my taste in other genres a lot more. Like Punk for example is something I've always thought I would like a lot (in part cuz I always f----- with the Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtracks LOL) but I don't know where to start lol. It's definitely on me for not making more effort — but if you have any good starting points for any scene or subgenre I'm always open to it like I said.

I've talked about how I think the term mumble rap is extremely reductive as naseum before so I won't get into it again other than to say I think putting Thug under that umbrella is especially reductive. I think the same when people call him trap, cuz while he has made trap songs for sure I never think of the average thug song as being trap. I also wouldn't consider Thug and his peers and offshoots a small subgenre either — Atlanta rap has been the dominant force in both the mainstream and underground for over a decade now, tho I think its chokehold has def faded a bit.

And yeah early Thug (the ICFN tales especially) sounds a lot like Wayne at times. Wayne is one of the greatest to ever do it — you can hear his DNA in everyone from Thug to Kendrick to Drake to Chance the Rapper, who all make very different types of rap so that's a huge testament to his influence. But all four of them have also carved their own lanes for sure.