I've listened to tons of music in my day, TONS, and I've never heard a more effortlessly perfect rap verse than what Young Thug blessed us with on "p*ssy Ass bytch".
perfectly crafted flows that peak at just above 16a, which is a really popular flow class coming out of the Atlanta area right now. Drake uses this flow class on "Versace" and "The Language", he executes these verses to perfection but the problem I have with Drake's usage of the flow is that his expression of it is TOO mathematical. There's very little variation and little to no effort to dance on the edge of the class and bleed into others in the way Young Thug does so well and with very little effort. Drake would be considered the better rapper of the two because of he's such a dynamic artist, but he has yet to achieve the level of effortless perfection on a verse that Young Thug has on "p*ssy Ass bytch".
Thugger begins the verse with an Ancient African incantation that seems simple on the surface but it actually prepares his pulse to be synced to the beat. This beat is 111bpm, an EXCELLENT pace to use class 16 flows on, and Thugger floats into this verse with such ease that you immediately know that there's something special happening, but it's happening so organically that you're carried along with it without taking much time to question why the magic carpet is flying.
[pull up and wet up the city don't care bout no feelings, I shoot at ya children] [20 S]
[pull up and kill him don't care bout no feelings I pop out and shoot at the city] [20 S]
[I'm cooking big birds and chickens I pull up on tons of the tons of the midget] [20 S]
[I'm going far as a star, you afraid of heights, the sky is my limit] [18 S]
(notice that the amount of syllables drops by 2 indicating that a flow class change is imminent!)
[yo bytch is sweet like a lemon] [13 S]
[heeeeeeey, ima move you up to Beverly but not the center] [19 S w/ modifier]
[heeeeeeey, young thug gon bite that fish just like it's tenders]
[the way Ima give ya number to nare one of my members]
(mid verse incantation *heeeey oooOOOO heeeey*) [the purpose of this is to recharge and prepare to shift to another class or sub-class, and keep in mind that he's doing all of this in REAL TIME, ORGANICALLY, this isn't something he wrote in cellphone and is reciting]
[note the tardiness before he begins his next lines, this is the sonic edition of being fashionably late][heeeeeeey, ima move you up to Beverly but not the center] [19 S w/ modifier]
[heeeeeeey, young thug gon bite that fish just like it's tenders]
[the way Ima give ya number to nare one of my members]
(mid verse incantation *heeeey oooOOOO heeeey*) [the purpose of this is to recharge and prepare to shift to another class or sub-class, and keep in mind that he's doing all of this in REAL TIME, ORGANICALLY, this isn't something he wrote in cellphone and is reciting]
[..ana Montana, bangin a red bandana] [5S + 7S]
[ten thousand dollar toe ring right inside of my sandal] [14S]
[my bytch {.} {.} {..}] [6S]
[she ride with the danner, she'ont give no fukk bout no camera] [6S + 8S]
[she got her a lawyer, not goin to the slammer, plus she did trial in the Phantom] [6S + 6S + 8S]
[ima pull up leave it running I walk in the club don't play I start the gunning] [20S]
[my bytch think she dreaming cuz I grabbed the Tommy she thought that I grabbed on my stomach] [21S]
[cook so much dope it's startin'a look just like Comet, it could make a young kid vomit] [12S + 8S]
[catch a damn hoe hook her up to phonics, I'm speaking ironic] [10S + 6S]
Thugger is an excellent example of an artist who's able to channel the sacred geometry that was used to build pyramids and other buildings of antiquity such as the Parthenon, the Black arts are still alive and we're only witnessing bits and pieces of it because we no longer have proper mystery schools to teach them. This verse is filled with beatiful ratios and the most amazing part is that Young Thug doesn't pre-plan ANY of this, he just goes into the booth and spits in complete ignorance of the high level of Mathematics he's efforlessly delivering on the fly. [my bytch think she dreaming cuz I grabbed the Tommy she thought that I grabbed on my stomach] [21S]
[cook so much dope it's startin'a look just like Comet, it could make a young kid vomit] [12S + 8S]
[catch a damn hoe hook her up to phonics, I'm speaking ironic] [10S + 6S]
Now go back to Drake on "Versace" and witness the difference between someone who channels these flow classes naturally, and someone who does it robotically, and needed Migo adlibs to help sell the illusion.
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