Give Young Thug His Grammy
GIVE YOUNG THUG HIS GRAMMY
RAP'S REIGNING WEIRDO DELIVERS ANOTHER LOW-STAKES, HIGH-REWARD GIFT WITH SLIME SEASON 3
The best part of Kanye’s Madison Square Garden album premiere and fashion show last month happened at the very end, after Ye had run out of music and the models were starting to fidget. And then, out of nowhere: “Hold up, Thug wants to play a song.” The song was “With Them,” the lead track from Young Thug’s latest offering, Slime Season 3, with a rubbery Mike WiLL Made-It beat that bounced wildly
absolutely bananas “Drippin’,” midway through which Thug pauses to announce “You don’t know a ting about me, OK?” in exaggerated patois, then launches into one of his most dynamic verses of 2016, picking up speed, starting to scream. It’s rap, but it’s jazz, too: Thug isn’t “post-language,” he just plays his voice like a saxophone. His approach is more free jazz than freestyle: improvisation for the sake of launching away from convention, more about harmonic progression and overall arc than outright lyrical cleverness or stamina.
@Poitier "Thug plays his voice like a saxophone"
GIVE YOUNG THUG HIS GRAMMY
RAP'S REIGNING WEIRDO DELIVERS ANOTHER LOW-STAKES, HIGH-REWARD GIFT WITH SLIME SEASON 3
The best part of Kanye’s Madison Square Garden album premiere and fashion show last month happened at the very end, after Ye had run out of music and the models were starting to fidget. And then, out of nowhere: “Hold up, Thug wants to play a song.” The song was “With Them,” the lead track from Young Thug’s latest offering, Slime Season 3, with a rubbery Mike WiLL Made-It beat that bounced wildly
absolutely bananas “Drippin’,” midway through which Thug pauses to announce “You don’t know a ting about me, OK?” in exaggerated patois, then launches into one of his most dynamic verses of 2016, picking up speed, starting to scream. It’s rap, but it’s jazz, too: Thug isn’t “post-language,” he just plays his voice like a saxophone. His approach is more free jazz than freestyle: improvisation for the sake of launching away from convention, more about harmonic progression and overall arc than outright lyrical cleverness or stamina.
@Poitier "Thug plays his voice like a saxophone"
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