>>60997573
here's your reply

>>60997604
ah yes it's common knowledge that thug is a musical genius this must be bait

Barter 6's barely there production doesn’t so much frame Thug's 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.

>he rides the beat so nice :)))
That's pretty fucking important. In fact "riding the beat" is basically a rapper's job in a nutshell. So essentially you asked why do people like him other than the fact that he's good.

>>60997573
>>he's fun
>>he rides the beat so nice :)))
these + great beats and a unique charisma

>>60997618
uh yeah?

his lyrics are v creative and abstract

>Go to Chipotle
>Order a steak burrito
>Ask for salsa, guac, rice, beans, cheese
>They hand me a container of white rice
>"Umm, I ordered a whole burrito"
>"Our rice is really good"
>"I'm sure it is, but there needs to be more than just some good rice. I ordered a whole burrito"
>"Yeah but our rice is really fucking good"
>"Can I please just get a burrito?"
>"We got some good ass rice"

This is what Young Thug fans sound like when they try to justify calling him great because he "has a good flow"

no im not no psychic but i got powers like im yugioh

i like how he jumps from subject to subject. i pick something up every listen.