Young Thug

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Young Thug (2018)

Young Thug (* 16th August 1991 in Atlanta , Georgia as Jeffery Lamar Williams ) is an American rapper .

Life

Williams was born in Atlanta and grew up with ten siblings. He grew up in the southwestern Sylvan Hills neighborhood of Atlanta. His career as a rapper began in 2011. He recorded the mixtape series I Came from Nothing from 2011 to 2012 . This caught the attention of rapper Gucci Mane , who brought the young artist to his label 1017 Records (distribution: Atlantic Records ) in 2013 . Young Thug's fourth mixtape 1017 Thug was also released there , which was highly praised by Pitchfork , Complex, FACT, Rolling Stone and The Guardian and included in the year-end lists. The song Picacho , which could be heard on the tape, was also found in several leaderboards from 2013.

His breakthrough came in 2014 with the single Stoner , which rose to number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100 . There were some unofficial remixes of the song, including by Wale , Jim Jones , Jadakiss and Trick-Trick , which, however, did not meet with approval from Young Thug. Since then, Young Thug has been working on his debut album Kay , which will be released in 2016.

In 2014 two colloboration mixtapes were released, one with Bloody Jay ( Black Portland ) and one with Gucci Mane ( Young Thugga Mane La Flare ) as well as several digital albums. He had guest parts on chart hits by TI , Tyga , Rich Gang & Rich Homie Quan and Rae Sremmurd & Nicki Minaj . After some speculation about his further career at 1017 Records, including the beef between Lil Wayne , who imitated Young Thug's style on a Disstrack , and Cash Money Records , he moved to 300 Entertainment in mid-2014. Sampler contributions appeared on Mass Appeal Vol. 1 (Mass Appeal Records) and Rich Gang 2 . Robert Christgau called the mixtape Black Portland the fourth best album in 2014.

For a while, Young Thug worked on his debut album, which he wanted to dub Tha Carter VI in reminiscence of Lil Wayne . However, there was a small beef between him and Wayne. Lil Wayne asked his audience at a show to stop supporting Young Thug. Young Thug then discarded the title, renamed the album Barter 6 and brought it out as a mixtape.

Since then, five more mixtapes have been released: Slime Season , Slime Season 2 , I'm Up , Slime Season 3 and Jeffery ; the last three even made it into the US album charts.

On April 27, 2017, Young Thug announced his next album Easy Breezy Beautiful Thugger Girls ( abbreviated EBBTG) on Twitter . At the same time it was announced that Drake is also involved in the musical implementation. On June 9, a tweet was: 16th published . Since there was no information about the release date yet, the fans speculated whether this was the release date. A short time later, on June 14th, a trailer was published on Instagram that confirmed June 16 as the release.

Rap style

Young Thug is a rapper who belongs to the typical southern rap style. Comparable figures are therefore other rappers from this genre such as Future , Lil B and Lil Wayne or Gucci Mane. His style is in typical Southern slang, that is, with a somewhat slurred pronunciation and influences from dancehall and trap . Young Thug also uses sung hooks on auto-tune . As an image he chose that of a D-boy, i.e. a drug dealer.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2019 So much fun DE66 (1 week)
DE 		AT38 (1 week)
AT 		CH15 (3 weeks)
CH 		UK9 (6 weeks)
UK 		US1
platinum
platinum

(… Where.)Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminary / 2019US
First published: August 16, 2019

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b Albums of the Year: Honorable Mention. Pitchfork Media, accessed May 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b The 50 Best Albums of 2013. Complex, accessed May 2, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b The 20 best mixtapes of 2013. FACT Magazine, accessed May 2, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b 10 Best Mixtapes of 2013: Young Thug, '1017 Thug'. Rolling Stone, accessed May 2, 2015 .
  5. ↑ The five best mixtapes of 2013. The Guardian, accessed on May 2, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Spin's "50 Best Songs of 2013". Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Rolling Stone's "100 Best Songs of 2013". Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  8. ^ Pitchfork's "The Top 100 Tracks of 2013". Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Young Thug Doesn't Like The Remixes To “Stoner”. XXL Mag, January 10, 2014, accessed May 2, 2015 .
  10. ↑ 300 Entertainment Partners with Migos And Quality Control Music. XXL Mag, June 17, 2014, accessed May 2, 2015 .
  11. ^ Robert Christgau: Excuses, Excuses: The 2014 Dean's List. Barnes and Noble , March 10, 2015, accessed May 2, 2015 .
  12. ^ Young Thug Changes Title To Carter 6 Mixtape. BallerStatus, April 13, 2015, accessed May 2, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Young Thug spontaneously announces a new album · Boutblank.com. Retrieved June 14, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Young Thug's cryptic tweet - will his album be released on June 16th? Retrieved June 14, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Young Thug's "EBBTG" release date has been set · Boutblank.com. Retrieved June 14, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Thug, Young
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Jeffrey (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American rapper
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia, USA