A few months short of a year since the Jeffery mixtape and Young Thug gives us Beautiful Thugger Girls (Easy Breezy Beautiful Thugger Girls or E.B.B.T.G). A singing album executive produced by Drake and summed up by his engineer Alex Tumay as: “The most unique album I’ve heard in my life“.
Unlike his peers, Young Thug hasn’t yet had a standalone hit or project which runs the charts e.g. XO Tour Life or Mask Off. Hearing this was a signing project was understandable with two of his more experimental songs on Jeffery being Wyclef Jean and my personal favorite Kanye West(ft Wyclef Jean).
Let’s see how the singing direction works with my first impressions!
1. Family Don’t Matter (ft Millie Go Lightly)
Ok, safe intro, a country western/hip-hop hybrid with the vocals of Millie helping to smooth out the raspy vocals of Thug. Maybe Millie’s vocals could have been integrated a bit earlier on into the song.
It would’ve been surprising if Thug really came out on the intro saying Family Don’t Matter considering the number of kids he has…
2. Tomorrow Til Infinity*
WOOOOO! this is very space-ious(from out of space) almost Kid Cudi like. This album already seems like it’s going to be full of surprises. Thug just glides in and out on the hard-hitting but chilled production, taking us on a journey through space.
3. She Wanna Party(ft Millie Go Lightly)
Decent, but it’s too early for the Ty Dolla Sign mainstream songs. I can understand what he’s trying to do with this but it just doesn’t have it. Again, a better integration with Millie would’ve worked to Young Thug’s advantage.
4. Daddy’s Birthday
A tempo slow down from what we have got before this, very easy going. The opening lyric caught my attention but after that, meh, nothing of note.
“Dropped out of school and bought myself a chain”
5. Do U Love Me*
I knew he would do a Dancehall/Hip-Hop song. To his credit, I have to say this sounds nothing like the masses of these being done by hip hop artists. He switches from a freestyle rapping style to melodies effortlessly, my second standout so far. The song on with the most potential so far.
6. Relationship (ft Future)
The cohesion between Thug and Future is seamless on this song, very smooth. The back to back verses works very well with no-one really outshining each other. I think it will be forgotten quickly though.
7. You Said*
On the first listen, I can say this the best body of work by Thug by a distance so far. These strings are FIRE, man I honestly never knew Thug had these melodies in him. This is like Jeffery vocals x10 with more varied production.
8. On Fire
As much as he said this would be a signing project there has been rapping almost all the way through. There are just fewer bars and longer melodic stretches than usual.
This song definitely is not on fire, he should’ve been called it all over the place.
9. Get High (ft Snoop Dogg & Lil Durk
As much of a legend, Snoop Dogg is I don’t want to hear him rapping anymore man. There comes a time when you just got to say my best hits are in the past. These pitch changes are beginning to sound a tad repetitive and this song feels really long haha.
10. Feel It
With songs like this, it feels like Thug is confused which direction he wants to go in. Does he want to please his core trap audience or does he want to hit higher levels? This is the first time I’ve noticed it so far.
11. Me Or Us
I like the start but the stuttering flow used doesn’t really suit this song and killed the vibe for me. I am not sure if this singing thing is working overall, to be honest.
12. Oh Yeah
0% things special about this song, Oh yeah? Oh, No. This production and backing vocals formula is sounding same old he needs to switch it up and close out strong.
13. For Y’all (ft Jacquees)
I don’t get this approach of having the stronger vocalist just doing harmonizing, why not let them lead even once?. Production and Jacquees’s vocal potential wasted.
14. Take Care
Make it stop, what is this??????
My expectation before hearing this was he was going to further solidify my view that he’s trying to recreate Lil Wayne, with a Rebirth 1.5. This wasn’t the case, he did stray outside of his usual a bit but it didn’t really deliver. He had some talented vocalists but with the exception of Future he didn’t blend in well with any of them.
Young Thug always has the problem of good songs followed by deadwood. Although, this project has had most direction so far in comparison to the others. This isn’t a groundbreaking debut, but it’s a good start.
Top 3 tracks: You Said, Do U Love Me and Tomorrow Til Infinity
7,3/10
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