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The fact that Thugger’s super lanky, has piercings, and dyes his hair in strange ways just makes him something approaching rap’s answer to Dennis Rodman. Even with compelling guest rappers like TI, Boosie Badazz (née Lil Boosie), and Thug’s mentor Birdman (also known as Baby), he dominates every song, changing pace and playing with song structure in delightful ways. His new album Barter 6 showcases everything that’s fun about his style, seesawing from threats (made more sinister by his unsteady, high pitch) to goofs, made funnier by his unorthodox delivery.
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But even when you don’t know what he’s saying, his raps are captivating his cadence is unique and he has an incredible sense of melody. Alternating sing-songy raps with squawks and impenetrable ad-libs, he is, at times, extremely difficult to understand (Blackish star Tracee Ellis Ross made a hilarious attempt to decipher his hit Lifestyle). Young Thug is the latest rapper with an oddball flow to break through. Lil Wayne had a strong, more conventional flow, but broke biggest when his voice turned toward something alien, croaking in increasingly surreal fashion toward the end of the last decade. Snoop Dogg was a gangsta who rapped behind the beat, Eminem stuck three words where one belonged, while Outkast told us to throw our hands not in the air, but in the a-yer. There’s no surefire recipe for hip-hop success, but rappers who sound simultaneously strange and familiar have the best chance.