Young Thug Gets His Due, But Is It Too Late?

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🗓️ 7 September 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Young Thug is one of the decade's most copied rappers — now he finally has a No. 1 album.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:03.8	podcast, I spent a hundred K on my rings so she can skate
0:07.6	from music news and criticism. I'm your host John Caramonica.
0:10.9	I'm your host John Caramonica. Is it you can't you that can't prevail that I'm Shazzy?
0:23.0	White toes in her heels, she's the ladies.
0:26.0	She got plastic all the nails that she made.
0:29.0	In the car and then my kids make the payment.
0:32.0	Extended pumps and everything
0:33.2	dance like the man
0:34.8	dress up diamonds on me with it in the tour shopping every day because it used to be
0:40.6	Keep a yellow Cinderella on a tour.
0:43.0	You're listening a little baby by a young thug.
0:46.0	It's off the new album, so much fun.
0:49.0	She's the number one album in the country, at least at this specific moment,
0:52.0	soon to not be but still
0:54.1	it's a big deal that Thug has no one out in the country those of you have been
0:58.2	following his career since the early 2010s know that this has been a long time in the cooking and it comes an interesting moment for for Thug where you could argue that he has been maybe even eclipsed by the people he's influenced.
1:12.6	Thug is very much a child of Gucci, a child of Wayne,
1:15.6	and now you can identify certain people, be it gonna, a little baby,
1:20.6	etc, who are children of Thug, who are basically the most or among the most popular
1:26.8	rappers in the game right now.
1:29.0	So I wanted to talk about the new Thug album and I wanted to talk about why it's maybe not completely
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