He felt completely, and admirably, free all while sounding like something that had never been heard before in that way. The song felt like a breakthrough - an early showing of what Young Thug could be when he allowed himself to completely lose himself to the music, regardless of what conventions he may be breaking.
There was a time, not that long ago, when weird was all Young Thug really was. And about a minute after that, the register climbs to a wailing howl that, at moments, causes Thug’s voice to crack. Album Of The Week Ap2:10 PM By Tom Breihan. Within 30 seconds of that arrival, his voice seamlessly grows into a higher-pitched harmonizing. One of the better examples of those skills arriving at an ah-hah moment is buried within Gucci’s feverish 2013 run on World War 3: Lean’s “Extacy Pill.” The C-Note-produced track begins with deep space sounding synths before Thug, the only person on the song, appears rapping with an aggressive, almost angry tone. But somewhere around late 2012 and early 2013, when his affiliation with Gucci Mane became stronger, the flashes of personalized eccentricities started to become a more integral part of his music - the harmonies became more animated, the ad libs more manic and entertaining. Young Thug Rises Above the Drama on ‘Barter 6. In the early installments of Thug’s career-launching I Came From Nothing mixtape series, the amount of Lil Wayne that he consumed was so prominent that, on certain tracks, if you closed your eyes and listened, it would have been a trying task to distinguish between the two.
Before Young Thug’s delivery evolved into the smoothed-out Swiss Army knife that it is now - bouncing from silky melodies to growls to perfectly placed squawks - the YSL leadman was an Atlanta upstart with a dizzying ability to disrupt tracks with an approach that, at that point, was the most identifiable indicator of Auto-Tune Weezy’s influence on the generation after him. Update 3:00 p.m.: You can cancel your flight to New Zealand, Young Thug's long awaited Barter 6 is now streaming on Spotify and available for purchase on iTunes.