Why does everyone either think that Young Thug is a genius who's ahead of his time or he's absolute trash? imo he makes pretty good music, i enjoy most of his stuff, but he's nowhere close to being a genius. i mean there's obviously nothing much to the lyrics, idk why P4K tries to insert something in there.
>>61214377
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.
>>61214450
This is absolute b8 but it's actually accurate
>>61214450
Shut the fuck up
>>61214450
>there's obviously nothing much to the lyrics
Here's one of his lyrics:
"My diamonds say Pikachu"
It’s a play on words because it sounds like “peek at you,” and the “Pika 「ぴか」” in Pikachu is the sound effect for “sparkle” in Japanese, so he’s saying that his diamonds sparkle.
>>61214528
Shit, meant to quote OP.
>there's obviously nothing much to the lyrics
He's definitely not a top spitter, but he's definitely a better lyricist than most of the people he's compared to (Future, Rich Homie Quan, Fetty Wap, Travis Scott, even Drake to some extent)
>>61214409
why are military bros perpetually insecure about their manhood?
>>61214611
He's lyrics are some of the worst in the game, Future has the occasional decent lyric but I've never seen anything good lyrics by Young Thug. That's my main problem with him, everyone rides his dick cause he can "sing" but everytime I listen to his music his lyrics ruin the entire thing.
>>61214528
Please don't tell me you think that's impressive or something.
>>61214528
Nigga that's a Migos line smdh
Listen to "Peekaboo"
