Jeffrey “Young Thug” Williams has to be rap’s most acquired taste. Start with Lil-Wayne-at-his-weirdest as a stylistic soup-base, then simmer through the earliest days of Atlanta’s Future-ist melodic renaissance, and throw in dashes of what might be ODB and Marilyn Manson—I would expect more than a few to opt for the Mickey D’s drive-through, where the sauce is cheaper and sweeter, instead.
Young Thug’s detractors are loud. Yeah, people endlessly hate on and argue about Kanye, but trad rap heads hate Young Thug And All He Stands For, view him as the cultural Antichrist. The reasons why are legion…