This is it. It's not done by education or... let's say specific intellectual focus. Like you know when Jay, Eminem, Lupe or Pusha are really flowing, you know it's because they've got the rhymes structure built so specifically to create this effect. Someone like Eminem's flow at its best is so meticulously written and structured. Young Thug is catching better flows and melodies and he's not.. intellectually trying to do so if that makes sense. What Thug does, doesn't make sense. It's like he goes into the booth channelling some African Juju shyt or the HolY Ghost of musical feeling and shyt. He'll find a pocket in a beat, then switch it up for something that just feels better at that point but it has no logical reason to do so.
The big drawback is that the content only has broad themes with songs often without specific meaning. I'm a big fan of dude and I only understand maybe... 80%... 90% of what he's saying. So his music has to be felt and enjoyed rather than understood. I've grown up listening to Dancehall, Afrobeats & Reggae. I'm used to feeling and enjoying music I barely understand. Big reason why Lifestyle is his biggest record, it has a strong theme. And also his music is complex but not in terms of "lyricism" or the way we consider complex hip hop music. Walk with me.
He uses a lot of lingo - that I simply don't understand (Wu did this a lot too). So, let's take what is to me.. one of the best songs of the year and one of the best songs from Thugga. Draw Down
For one.. the title.. Draw Down doesn't mean anything to me. It took me a while to figure he was saying "i'm a pull a draw down on all of them"... which in itself is an abstract way of saying i'm going to point a loaded gun at you.
Then.. the hook alone.. is like 14-16 bars of raps. THE HOOK IS 14 BARS MINIMUM. It's split into I guess 3 sections, of about 5 bars. The first is the most catchy, the second is a chant (i'm a pull a draw down on all them), the 3rd is hypnotic rhymes that works brilliantly with the earlier part. Oh and he starts the hook as soon as the song drops. He starts singing in the background halfway through the hook and the beat changes a bit too. The first time hearing this you literally have no time to understand what's going on. The first verse hasn't started, in 1 hook he's given us 3 flows/melodies and said "nikka you might be swept by my sword" LOL. That's some poetic shyt to say in a hook. AGain, it's like 14 bars but it doesn't feel like it.
Verse 1:
The beat settles down again and he's onto the 4th flow of the song.. this time he's shouting and super clear to understand. After the shouting, the beat actually ramps up again (like the drop at the start) he switches seamlessly into the singing, which contains two melodies working together. So he's shouting when it's smooth, then singing when it's a harder beat. When the beat is open he attacks it with the shouting flow, when it fights back with the 808's and bass.. he rides it smoothly with the singing flow. That must be on purpose right?
And then from there.... he's pretty much rapping in another flow that's unlike the previous 2... but... feels more like free expression rather than a specific flow. No cadence or flow after that sticks fro more than a rhyming couplet or at a push 3. So it's like... shouting... singing.... off the cuff stuff towards the end.
Like... how do you plan to write that? Do you even plan it? If you don't plan it, how can a mind be so sick to come up with that? I don't know.. so.. despite being explicit and sexually grotesque it ends up sounding like Thugger has unlocked some kinda spiritual rapping flows to stick this all together seamlessly and effortlessly. It doesn't sound like he's trying but when you think about it... it's fukking nuts. The beat and Thug switch gears throughout the song. Seamless.
Then we back to that 14-16 bar hook. LOL.
This is a trap rapper called Young Thug, making a song loosely about pulling guns on people. It's complex but people will dead ass look you in the face and dismiss it's creativity and originality.
I've spent longer than planned on this lol. Might start a thread on the greatness and complexity of this song.
I have heard this dude on mixtapes. The shyt is terrible
brehs i opened this thread being 33 years old, having dismissed this nikka based on appearance and the moist antics, planning on dropping a quick
and be out.. then i read yalls posts and played that "best friend" joint.. 
yall woke me up out my sleep
