![]() ![]() We say all this to say this: the man is a true icon and an immense talent who’s managed to shine bright in a world and genre full of them. More often than not, this all happens on the same song, if not the same verse. On any given song, Thug might go double- or triple-time, only to stop on a dime and show how far he can stretch his voice -a little like a gymnast on their floor routine and unveiling jumps and flips and… (Look, we’re not gymnast experts). It’s really a perfect metaphor, especially if you switch acrobat for gymnast. ![]() We won’t reinvent the wheel here because so many great people have written at length about Thug’s talents ( including us on this very space), but a recent (Patreon-exclusive, baby!) episode of the Rap Rankings podcast compared the man to an acrobat. This is a celebratory space and we’ll do nothing but give the titanic talent that is one Jeffrey Lamar Williams his flowers. There’s something to be said but we won’t say it. There’s something to be said about the fact that it’s heartbreaking that Thug’s breakthrough came after and once he had softened the edges of his style and that SMF, while fine enough, is probably not nearly as good, innovative and groundbreaking as a tape like 1017 Thug. Remember that? Yeah thankfully, those doomsday predictions never came to fruition, with Thug earning a deserved №1 spot with the aforementioned So Much Fun. Right before Thug’s So Much Fun (his debut album after so many years in the game lol) and after the Lil Baby’s and Gunna’s of the world had gone no 1 or whatever, leaving the master lagging behind and grasping at air? When this singular and titanic genius who has spent his entire career remodelling and remaking popular music, trap music and rap music in his image - and probably not in that order if we’re keeping it really real - when this man was gonna have spent his complete career without ever breaking through, without ever coming close to receiving the mainstream accolades that so many of his clones have already been feted with? Seriously this is a real thing that happened. Remember when Young Thug was gonna have missed his moment? ![]()
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