★★★★★
Part of a burgeoning group of rappers reclaiming the sputtering, chemical-soaked autotune flow for artistic purposes, Young Thug is perhaps the most easygoing. Freshly signed to Brick Squad, the label that turned lesser talents like Waka Flocka Flame into commercial prowlers, the 21-year-old Georgian burps a swampy, lead-stained voice, but don't get it twisted. There's a method to his slop...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2014-03-13
★★★★★
The fact that Jeffrey Williams chose a rap name as bland as Young Thug just makes the revelation of his off-the-wall brilliance all the more intense. The 22-year-old Atlanta lunatic gets over on pure, giddy eccentricity - breathlessly braying, cackling, even drunkenly crooning rhymes like "Foreign car outside, that bitch got two digits/Money stand like eight feet, just like two midgets...
- www.rollingstone.com
2014-02-22
★★★★★
In a landscape where Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame have proven to be, at the very least, reliable dispensers of either captivating displays of slurry brilliance and/or music that makes you want to slam your hand through a cinder block, Brick Squad's own Young Thug stands out as an unquantifiable wild card...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-04
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