I feel the exact same way. I enjoyed some of his stuff before but this record is just taking it to another level.
Love the progression. Definitely my favorite release yet. This is slightly off topic but do y'all think he's waiting for Lil Wayne to fully reconcile and acknowledge him to release Hitunes? Like he can't release his first real album until he gets that genuine Toon feature? (Im aware Jeffery was technically released as an album and I'm aware and love Take Kare)
I really want to see him live now, but I want to hear some of these tracks. Even thinking of driving down for Sound On Sound Festival just for him.
From what I can remember: Fuck Cancer, About The Money, Power, Again, Lifestyle, King Troup, For My People, Slime Shit, Memo, Worth It, With Them, With That, Best Friend, Pull Up On A Kid, Thief In The Night. Probably some others I'm forgetting but that's most of them.
Meant to respond to this sooner, but yah to me it seemed like he just chose the songs that he thought were the most popular. 2 Cups Stuffed was a glaring omission though.
This might be his most consistently quality release for me. Love "RiRi" and "Guwop" particularly on first listen.
I don't think Young Thug's should be considered post-language or whatever people are saying he is, I just think he's one of the few rappers who's playing with enunciation to be interesting and develop his own brand. No one else sounds like him now. Its what make him so interesting. So how do you describe what he's doing without it being offensive?
To me the weird part of that whole thing is the stuff trying to separate him from hip hop, as if him making grounbreaking or artistically valid music precludes it from being hip hop. You can just say, no one sounds like him, he does things with enunciation and his voice that no one else does. Nothing wrong with that
Ahhh, so its indirectly invalidating hip hop as a genre that has potential for growth and cultural relevance.