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200 (Future & Young Thug) 25 Soldiers (Swizz Beatz feat. Young Thug) 3 Headed Snake (Gunna feat. Young Thug) About The Money (T.I. feat. Young Thug) Abracadabra (Young Thug feat. Travis Scott) All Da Smoke (Future & Young Thug) Always Love You (Elton John, Young Thug & Nicki Minaj) Amazing (Young Thug feat. Jacquees) Animal (Chris Brown & Young Thug) Anybody (Young Thug feat. Nicki Minaj) Audemar (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Tracy T) Baby Don't Cry (Philmon Lee feat. Young Thug) Bad Bad Bad (Young Thug feat. Lil Baby) Bad Boy (Juice WRLD & Young Thug) Best Friend Better Believe (Belly, The Weeknd, Young Thug) Big Rocks (Quality Control & Offset feat. Young Thug) Big Slimes (Chris Brown & Young Thug feat. Gunna & Lil Duke) Big Tipper (Young Thug feat. Lil Keed) Black Out (French Montana feat. Young Thug) Blood (DeJ Loaf feat. Young Thug & Birdman) Boy Back (Young Thug feat. Nav) Bubbly (Young Thug with Drake & Travis Scott) Came And Saw (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Rowdy Rebel) Can't Tell (Young Thug feat. T.I. and Boosie BadAzz) Cars Bring Me Out (Young Thug feat. Future) Cartier Gucci Scarf (Young Thug feat. Lil Duke) Chains Choking Me (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Gunna) Chanel (Go Get It) (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Gunna & Lil Baby) Check Chocolate (Quavo, Takeoff, Young Thug & Gunna) Choppa Won't Miss (Playboi Carti feat. Young Thug) Circle Of Bosses (Young Thug feat. Quavo) City Girls (Chris Brown & Young Thug) Compensating (Aminé feat. Young Thug) Constantly Hating (Young Thug feat. Birdman) Contagious Cruise Ship D4L (Future, Drake & Young Thug) Daddy's Birthday Dance With Me (Diplo, Thomas Rhett & Young Thug) Day Before (Young Thug with Mac Miller) Diamonds (Young Thug feat. Gunna) Diamonds Dancing (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug / Gunna feat. Travis Scott) Die In California (Machine Gun Kelly feat. Gunna & Young Thug) Die Slow (Young Thug with Strick) Die Today Digits Dirty Shoes (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Gunna) Do U Love Me Dollaz On My Head (Gunna feat. Young Thug) Dome (Young Thug feat. Duke) Don't Stop (Megan Thee Stallion feat. Young Thug) Dream (Young Thug feat. Yak Gotti) Drip On Me (Future & Young Thug) Drippin' Droppin Jewels Ecstasy (Young Thug feat. Machine Gun Kelly) Expensive (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. HiDoraah & Dolly) F Cancer (Boosie) (Young Thug feat. Quavo) Faces Fall Threw (Rich The Kid feat. Young Thug & Gunna) Family Don't Matter (Young Thug feat. Millie Go Lightly) Far (Gunna feat. Young Thug) Feel It Feels (Ed Sheeran feat. Young Thug & J Hus) Fifth Day Dead Floyd Mayweather (Young Thug feat. Travis Scott, Gucci Mane & Gunna) Focused (Quavo feat. Young Thug) For Y'all (Young Thug feat. Jacquees) Forever Ever (Trippie Redd feat. Young Thug & Reese Lafare) Franchise (Travis Scott feat. Young Thug & M.I.A.) Future Swag Gain Clout (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug) Gang Up (Young Thug, 2 Chainz, Wiz Khalifa & PnB Rock) Get High (Young Thug feat. Snoop Dogg & Lil Durk) Get Mine (Bryson Tiller feat. Young Thug) Give No Fxk (Migos feat. Travis Scott & Young Thug) Global Access (Young Thug feat. Nate Ruess) Go Crazy (Chris Brown & Young Thug) Goin Up (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Lil Keed) Goodbyes (Post Malone feat. Young Thug) Group Home (Future & Young Thug) Gucci Grocery Bag Guwop (Young Thug feat. Quavo, Offset and Young Scooter) Guwop Home (Gucci Mane / Young Thug) Halftime Harambe Harlem Shake (Future feat. Young Thug) Hate The Game Havana (Camila Cabello feat. Young Thug) Heatstroke (Calvin Harris feat. Young Thug, Pharrell Williams & Ariana Grande) Hellcat Kenny (Young Thug feat. Lil Uzi Vert) Hercules High (Young Thug feat. Elton John) High End (Chris Brown feat. Future & Young Thug) High Top Versace (2 Chainz feat. Young Thug) Hoodie (Young Thug feat. BSlime & Lil Gotit) Hookah (Tyga feat. Young Thug) Hop Off A Jet (Young Thug feat. Travis Scott) Hot (Young Thug feat. Gunna) Hot (Remix) (Young Thug feat. Gunna and Travis Scott) I Ain't Tryin' (Chris Brown & Young Thug) I Bought Her (Young Thug feat. Lil Duke) I Got Time (Chris Brown & Young Thug feat. Shad Da God) I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) (Jamie XX feat. Young Thug & Popcaan) Ice Melts (Drake feat. Young Thug) Icy Hot (Young Thug with Doja Cat) I'm Scared (Young Thug feat. 21 Savage & Doe Boy) Insure My Wrist (Young Thug with Gunna) It's A Slime (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Lil Uzi Vert) It's Up (Drake / Young Thug / 21 Savage) January 1st (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Jacquees & Trap Boy Freddy) Jonesboro Jumped Out The Window Just How It Is Just Might Be Kanye West (Young Thug feat. Wyclef Jean) Killed Before Knocked Off (Young Thug feat. Birdman) Lesbian (Metro Boomin feat. Gunna & Young Thug) Lifestyle (Rich Gang feat. Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan) Lift Me Up (Ty Dolla $ign feat. Future & Young Thug) Light It Up Like A Hott Body (Kid Ink feat. Young Thug & Bricc Baby Shitro) Lil Baby Livin It Up (Young Thug with Post Malone & A$AP Rocky) Longtime (Quality Control & 24Heavy feat. Young Thug) Losses (Polo G feat. Young Thug) Love You More (Young Thug with Nate Ruess, Gunna & Jeff Bhasker)
| Mad Dog Mamacita (Travis Scott feat. Rich Homie Quan & Young Thug) Mannequin Challenge (Young Thug feat. Juice WRLD) Maria I'm Drunk (Travis Scott feat. Justin Bieber & Young Thug) Me Or Us Memo Metro Spider (Metro Boomin with Young Thug) Might Not Give Up (A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie feat. Young Thug) Milliers d'euros (Dosseh feat. Young Thug) Millions Mink Flow (Future & Young Thug) Money On The Dresser Moon Man (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Strick & Kid Cudi) Mop (Gunna feat. Young Thug) My Jeans (Lil Baby & Gunna feat. Young Thug) Never Had It (Young Thug feat. Young Dolph) Never Hating (Lil Baby & Young Thug) No Cap (Future & Young Thug) No Debate (Nav feat. Young Thug) No Limit (Usher feat. Young Thug) Numbers OD Offended (Meek Mill feat. Young Thug & 21 Savage) Off-Set (T.I. & Young Thug) Offshore (Swae Lee feat. Young Thug) Oh U Went (Young Thug feat. Drake) Oh Yeah Oh Yeah (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. HiDoraah) On Fire On God (Juice WRLD feat. Young Thug) Out West (Jackboys feat. Young Thug) Outsidë (Yeat feat. Young Thug) Paid The Fine (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug / Gunna feat. Lil Baby & YTB Trench) Parade On Cleveland (Young Thug feat. Drake) Paranoia (Pop Smoke feat. Gunna & Young Thug) Party Favors (Tinashe feat. Young Thug) Patek Water (Future & Young Thug feat. Offset) Payday (Doja Cat feat. Young Thug) Peepin Out The Window (Young Thug with Future & Bslime) Pere (Davido feat. Rae Sremmard & Young Thug) Pick Up The Phone (Young Thug and Travis Scott feat. Quavo) Pop Ur Shit (21 Savage, Young Thug & Metro Boomin) Potion (Calvin Harris / Dua Lipa / Young Thug) Problem Proud Of You (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Lil Uzi Vert & Yung Kayo) Pushin P (Gunna & Future feat. Young Thug) Pussy Rager Boyz (Kid Cudi feat. Young Thug) Real (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Unfoonk) Real Love (Future & Young Thug) Recognize Real (Young Thug with Gunna) Red Bentley (Future & Juice WRLD feat. Young Thug) Relationship (Young Thug feat. Future) Respect It (Big Sean feat. Young Thug & Hit-Boy) Rich Nigga Shit (Young Thug with Juice WRLD) Rich Nigga Shit (21 Savage & Metro Boomin feat. Young Thug) RiRi Road Rage Rondo (6ix9ine feat. Tory Lanez & Young Thug) Run (Killer Mike feat, Dave Chappelle & Young Thug) Run (Killer Mike feat. Young Thug) Sacrifices (Drake feat. 2 Chainz & Young Thug) Say You Love Me (Chris Brown & Young Thug) Scoliosis (Young Thug with Lil Double 0) Scoliosis (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Gunna & Duke) She Bumped Her Head (Chris Brown & Young Thug feat. Gunna) She Wanna Party (Young Thug feat. Millie Go Lightly) Ski (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug / Gunna) Skitzo (Travis Scott feat. Young Thug) Skyfall (Travis Scott feat. Young Thug) Slatty (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug / Gunna feat. Yak Gotti & Lil Duke) Slime Shit (Young Thug feat. Yak Gotti, Duke & Peewee Roscoe) Slimed In (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Nechie) Solid (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug / Gunna feat. Drake) Spaceships (Trippie Redd feat. Young Thug) Spend It (Nav feat. Young Thug) Splash Warning (Meek Mill feat. Future, Roddy Ricch and Young Thug) Stolen (Chris Brown & Young Thug) Stoner (Young Thug feat. Wale) Stressed (Young Thug with J. Cole & T-Shyne) STS (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Strick) Stupid / Asking Sup Mate (Young Thug feat. Future) Superstar (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Future) Surf (Young Thug feat. Gunna) Swizz Beatz Take Care Take It To Trial (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug / Gunna feat. Yak Gotti) Talk About Love (Zara Larsson feat. Young Thug) Tape (Young Thug & Migos feat. Chance The Rapper & Lil Yachty) Tattoos That Go! (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug / Meek Mill feat. T-Shyne) The Half (DJ Snake feat. Young Thug, Jeremih & Swizz Beatz) The London (Young Thug feat. J. Cole & Travis Scott) The War (Joyner Lucas feat. Young Thug) The Weekend (T.I. feat. Young Thug) Three (Future & Young Thug) Throw Sum Mo (Rae Sremmurd feat. Nicki Minaj & Young Thug) Tick Tock Tokyo Ghoul (Highly Suspect feat. Terrible Johnny & Young Thug) Tomorrow Til Infinity (Young Thug feat. Gunna) Trance (Metro Boomin with Travis Scott & Young Thug) Trap Back (Chris Brown & Young Thug feat. Major Nine) Trap Trap Trap (Rick Ross feat. Young Thug & Wale) Tsunami (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug) Tussin (Nav feat. Young Thug) U Ain't Slime Enough (Young Stoner Life / Young Thug feat. Karlae & Duke) Uncle M Unicorn Purp (Future feat. Young Thug & Gunna) Up The Side (Lil Baby, Lil Durk & Young Thug) Up To Something (Metro Boomin feat. Travis Scott & Young Thug) Walked In (Mariah The Scientist feat. Young Thug) Want Me Dead (Young Thug feat. 21 Savage) Way 2 Sexy (Drake feat. Future & Young Thug) We Ball (Meek Mill Feat. Young Thug) We Should (Lil Baby & Young Thug) We Slide (Meek Mill feat. Young Thug) Webbie (Young Thug feat. Duke) Went Thru It Whatever (DJ Khaled feat. Future, Young Thug, Rick Ross & 2 Chainz) What's The Move (Young Thug feat. Lil Uzi Vert) Wit Da Racks (Young Thug feat. 21 Savage, Travis Scott & Yak Gotti) With That (Young Thug feat. Duke) With Them Worth It Wyclef Jean Yea Yea Yea Yell Oh (Trippie Redd feat. Young Thug) You Said (Young Thug feat. Quavo)
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Average points: 5 (Reviews: 1) | ***** Ask a music fan what makes a rapper great, and you'll likely get a couple of different responses. Perhaps the most common one will be having good lyricism, and fair enough, many of the best lyrics of the past 30+ years have came from rap music, another answer from some people is flow, which is also pretty important, and related to what I'm gonna argue in this review (there are some folks who put particular virtue on rapping "fast" which makes me think of the guitar heads who think soloing really fast is the most important barometer of musicianship and don't appreciate the value of a guitarist like The Edge, they're dead wrong, trust me). But to me, what gets sorely overlooked and undervalued when discussing the merits of rappers among "serious" music fans is the quality of the rapper's actual voice - not just timbre per se, but what they DO with it, how they stress syllables, change pitches, phrase, emote and so on. I think the reason this gets overlooked is because as rappers are generally not "singing", then they're not using their voice the way a singer does and those qualities don't matter as much, but that's not really as true as that might seem. There's a great interview with Drake's vocal coach Dionne Osborne from 2014 where she explains how coaching Drake's vocals is equally as important for his rapping as his singing: "I try to get rappers to remember, you use the same vocal cords that Usher does... I mean, singing is just exaggerated speech. You're sustaining the tones; you're holding the notes longer. So I tried to get him to do that more with rap, connecting his flow." (I'll link at the bottom if you wanna read)<br><br>Now having a unique rapping voice has existed as long as the genre itself has - plenty of great rappers from years before did interesting things with their voice. But in recent years there's become more rappers who seem focused on the qualities found in their own voices. Drake could be considered a good example of course, who's spent the past decade combining his twin vocal talents to ensure every song on the radio sounds like Drake featuring Drake. But a fair amount have come out of the trap-rap movement which sometimes gets billed as "mumble rap". From what I can gather not every usage of the term "mumble rap" is meant to derisive, but it still feels like a big mischaracterisation of the genre as a whole. And sure, there are some dreadfully boring folks on SoundCloud who make anesthetised drones over incredibly flat sounding beats, but at its best - like on Young Thug's 2016 opus "Jeffery" - there's some of the best explorations of the capabilities of the human voice in any music currently being made, yet alone hip-hop music.<br><br>Like Drake, Young Thug also sings often, and throughout Jeffery he creates an almost never-ending supply of fantastic hooks containing both stunning melodies and playful, eccentric phrasing. Listen to the way he plays around with the word love in Swizz Beatz (love, luh-luh-luh love) or earn in RiRi (you gotta err-err-err-err-err-err-earrrrn it!) or the wamp-wamps and wet-wets in Kanye West and his backing vocals singing the albums title while thats happening. His melodicism also informs his verses which helps bring out his sense of humour too, such as in Wyclef Jean with lines like She cant hide that motherfucker, even if she divided the motherfucker, man even if she minused the motherfucker, join in get demolished motherfucker (love the way his pitch picks up at the end) and Spent racks on my son and his squad, daddy boy never play with toys, better not play with em BOYS, new AK with em BOYS, new feng shui with the BOYS, drippin all day for the BOYS (why brag about your own success when you can do so about your sons?). Elsewhere, on Harambe he brings out a harsh rasp in his voice unheard of on the other tracks, sounding almost out of breath at points. Distinguishing between where hes singing or rapping feels almost beside the point here, though, due to how thoroughly interwoven they are much of the time (back to Swizz Beatz notice how in verse one where as he jumps to a triplet rhythm, his pitch also gets higher and almost starts to resemble singing before going into a clear melody line, I love the way he says have you ever? in a high spoken voice just after belting have you ever been a shot caller?). And thats not even counting all the little adlibs in the background of these raps done by both Thug and the others featured on here, which provide with little hooks and even texture along the way of the record<br><br>The effects of Young Thugs presence as a vocalist result in a fun, surreal atmosphere palpable throughout the record. Of course thats not just the work of Thugs vocals (well get to that later) but it rubs off well on the other featured guests of Jeffery, whether its Wyclef Jean on Kanye West (yes, not on the song actually named after him, just for maximum confusion) going into his lower range, or his duet with Travis Scott Pick Up the Phone or Lil Duke in Webbie my favourite song here sounding almost like a dancehall toaster than a featured rapper (The part where he goes I lost some friends, that was so fucked up and I know that they hate me and Young Thug shouts fuck! Fuck! in the background immediately afterwards always makes me laugh out loud hilarious for almost no reason).<br><br>And then theres the production, which is full of colourful and unusual sounds and matches the trippy surrealism of Thugs mic presence perfectly. None of the problems with genericism faced on other trap records apply here, from Wyclef Jeans echoing reggae skank and rich bassline, to say nothing of the gorgeous trickling of synth that appears when each new section arrives, to the warped dub-heavy take on Hotline Bling on Pick up the Phone (and check out the huge synth line that closes the song) the closest you get to a generic trap beat is Harambe and even that uses weirder synth tones than most producers would use. Whats noteworthy to me is when cicada-like hi-hats are used, theyre always done sparingly and in a comfortable part of the mix and actually invoke the feeling of actual cicadas rather than being an endless rattle of 16th notes, and I think that really reflects well on the beats that TM88, Wheezy and Billboard Hitmakers provided here. Some more great production details include the washy echoes in Swizz Beatz, the woozy bass and pretty piano parts of Kanye West and the absolutely wonderful acoustic guitars in Webbie adding such a sun-soaked vibe to an already summer-friendly album. While Im on Webbie Ill remark on how joyous its chorus is (This politician is so fake! Theyre politickin bout their cases! also hilarious) not to mention the tunefulness of the verses where he keeps rolling out other hooks (Ill pop at your mayun-mayun-mayun) his audible scoffing during got foreign car like a white beetle, acting like she like people! and bragging about using 14% of his brain near the end.<br><br>Its not a perfect record Floyd Mayweather threatens the albums momentum 2 songs in by not having enough for its too-long 6 minutes, plus it has some unsavoury lines that are harder to mitigate thanks to how clearly audible they are. And Im guessing someone might read a lot of the lyrics here that Ive quoted on this review and think Really? You think that is great music? to which I say: yes this album is not infact particularly deep but as Ive explained in detail above, not only does it have a both a unique sense of humour but also a unique atmosphere of which that humour is a part of, it does infact achieve the right level of goofiness. Young Thug faltered with this a little with Beautiful Thugger Girls which relied almost too much on the lyrical silliness at times and didnt have as substantial counterpart in the music or melody-making. And as a side note, Ill take silly lyrics trying to be fun over silly lyrics trying to be profound any day (unless you can be Kanye and do both simultaneously). On Jeffery Young Thug achieves a surreal, imaginative and comedic musical experience that gives me a similar joy when listening to rock artsists like Talking Heads, Beck or early R.E.M. and thats a damn good thing in my eyes<br><br>And that cover is awesome too full of powerful androgynous energy for my genderqueer self.<br>Dionne Osborne interview:<br> https://jezebel.com/a-chat-with-dionne-osborne-the-vocal-coach-who-changed-1658044149<br> | | | Add a review
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