>>61124879
Why exactly does Pitchfork love this guy so much? Is it just their equivalent of giving the retard first prize at a talent show?

>>61125011
Young Thug just might be the most important musician of his generation. Barter 6's barely there production doesn’t so much frame his rapping as it does provide a surface for his words to dance upon, to explore the art of rapping in multiple dimensions: melodically, rhythmically, lyrically, and in terms of composition. His voice glides through the thick absence of sound. He’s responsible for a lot of the songwriting; he knocks out his own hooks, and his writing speaks to his use of phrasing, his backgrounds, the flows he uses, and the way he plays with each song’s internal architecture. On “Halftime,” his car-screech adlibs are elongated—it’s as if a camera panned suddenly from a pinprick of light, causing it to blur—so he can change tones, harmonizing this background yelp with his own main vocals.

His lyrical style stands out in a number of ways; the most obvious is his ear for figurative language. Thug’s similes often build upon familiar imagery, but move in unexpected directions. On “Check,” he opens rapping about a “Mink coat with the rolls like a Shar Pei”; later on, he raps, “All my niggas, they hard, call them beetles.” These aren’t punchlines intended to get rap fans doubling over laughing (although they can be funny in their unpredictability). Thug seems more interested in an original and idiosyncratic approach to imagery, in discovering pathways in language that haven’t already been heavily traveled.

In this, his lyrical approach is closer to a rapper like Raekwon than it is Lil Wayne, with whom Thug is frequently compared through some fault of his own. But any close reading of his lyrics suggest comparisons between The Barter 6 and Wayne’s Carter series, for which it is named, are a total misdirection. Where Wayne shredded his vocals against hip-hop’s formal constraints, Thug is a synthesist, a rapper of control, an artist in the process of reassembly.

>>61125131
i love this pasta

>>61125011
As a Thug fan, their ranking of B6 was laughable. SS1 and SS2 were far better. They also ranked Constantly Hating on their singles list and that's not even a top 20 Thug song for the year.

>>61125165
Barter 6 is his magnum opus tho
both Slime Seasons are full of throwaway tracks and feel way too much like a mixtape

the blunts we smoke look like dicks f.am no homo

>>61124879
for the first few times i saw this pic, i thought his hair was a brain

>>61125868
no homo we smokin penises

>>61126089
i always thought it was a hat and it made me think of mcdonalds