Rap is performative, and no one performs quite like Thug.īut each of those two songs exhibits a quietly engaging pen as well. When well-meaning rap fans and academics compare rapping to poetry, they do each medium a disservice. As Guru’s maxim goes, Williams is blessed with - or, more accurate, has synthesized his influences into - one of the slipperiest, most malleable voices in hip-hop’s history, not to mention a command of language that’s thoroughly his own.
By the time Paul McCartney hit the main stage an hour later, Thug was already at O’Hare, taking pictures with Dennis Rodman, essentially living out the plot of Looper.īoth “Halftime” and “About the Money” argue for Thug as rap’s most vital, most engaging voice right now. What had started as a tense point of curiosity - some fans in DePaul tank-tops wondered loudly if the rapper would show up at all - had become one of the day’s highlights: a loose, raucous set where the crowd was shouting everything down to the DJ drops.
that finds him extolling the virtues of can openers and L.A. And he dropped “ About the Money ,” his massive collaboration with T.I. Pussy niggas stealing swag, bring my shit back like recycle I might eat it, I might lick it, but I swear I’ll never bite ‘emĮvery time I dress myself, it go motherfucking viral Got 100 million flat, like my motherfucking idol There, he played “ Halftime ,” the song that Cobb County district attorneys used to implicate him in the same indictment that charged PeeWee Roscoe with domestic terrorism for Lil Wayne’s tour-bus shooting back in April. I’ve witnessed it up close.Īt the end of July, less than two weeks after he was jailed for - of all things - a confrontation with a mall cop, Thug made it to his scheduled set at Chicago’s Lollapalooza. But the Atlanta-born Jeffrey Williams, who just turned 23 and is facing a litany of gun and drug charges, and might yet be roped into a conspiracy to kill his idol, doesn’t seem too worried. Most who wrangle that crown do it loudly: as the sneering villain, the smirking capitalist, the put-upon savior. Young Thug performs at Grant Park on July 31 in Chicago, Illinois.įor one of the best rappers alive, Young Thug seems remarkably at ease.
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