Punk
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CRITIC REVIEWS
100
Featuring a masterpiece of a collaboration with the late, great Mac Miller, this hugely inventive second studio album proves Thugger's all-time greatness.
80
With Punk, Thugger continues to expand his game to the point of reaching true limitlessness; he’s like a young, athletic slasher in basketball who expands his repertoire to become well-rounded and achieve longevity in the sport.
80
Impactful and often unexpected, ‘PUNK’ breaks new ground within Young Thug’s identity.
71
While Young Thug’s creative choices after about 2015 have had little sway over emerging trends, Punk suggests that the space he now occupies is one that allows him more room to experiment.
70
Punk is relatively odd for an album that debuted at number one on the charts, sneaking some of Young Thug's inherent eccentricity in among its more commercially viable moments.
70
While it doesn’t have the standout moments of some of his previous albums, the rapper’s latest LP is a vibrant collection from one of music’s truest eccentrics.
60
Punk will likely not be remembered as a great Young Thug album, but we should appreciate that we get to hear him tinker with his sound for when he finally puts it all together again.
60
There are countless rappers who use a similar melodic flow, but none that can so effortlessly find hidden melodies in every beat.
30
After the promising first leg, it's as if everyone making Punk forgets its direction.
This is a victory lap album. An acoustic journey. He isn’t selling out. That’s just… like please it’s Young Thug. He has always been a hybrid artist. Yikes to that take.
This album is very complete in its aesthetic, but I found it to feel very stale and synthetic. The instrumentals don’t pop in any interesting way. The songs just exist to exist
I’m tired of ass skin
(Ignore the review it grew on me)
Punk sadly manages to be the final straw to confirm Young Thug has lowkey sold out: and it's something I wish I wouldn't have to say.
For the longest time, Young Thug has been quite consistently my favorite trap artist, but from him putting on random clones on the map, to putting on everyone from his 7-year-old daughter to his partner on tracks, and to close it off: releasing products unusually bloated by his standards.
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This is something I’m not typically use to while hearing Young Thug. I’m use to his eccentric energy and trap production in comparison. Although there are some songs that linger with that style, his slower acoustic tracks I’m slowly getting in to. He has a good vocal performance, but at times, it’s uninteresting.
I really enjoyed this album. I appreciated the acoustic tracks a lot, since we haven't heard this sound from Thugger that much in the past. The album would've gotten stale if all the songs on the record had this sound, so it was a very good blend between classic Young Thug bangers and the more experimental acoustic songs imo
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Track List
| 1 | Die Slow 3:57 feat. Strick | 70 |
| 2 | Stressed 3:40 | 69 |
| 3 | Stupid/Asking 5:33 | 68 |
| 4 | Recognize Real 2:51 feat. Gunna | 65 |
| 5 | Contagious 2:30 | 69 |
| 6 | Peepin Out The Window 3:57 | 70 |
| 7 | Rich Nigga Shit 2:57 feat. Juice WRLD | 68 |
| 8 | Livin It Up 3:30 feat. Post Malone, A$AP Rocky | 65 |
| 9 | Yea Yea Yea 2:24 | 56 |
| 10 | Insure My Wrist 2:48 feat. Gunna | 63 |
| 11 | Scoliosis 2:50 feat. Lil Double 0 | 59 |
| 12 | Bubbly 2:45 feat. Drake, Travis Scott | 74 |
| 13 | Road Rage 2:32 | 60 |
| 14 | Faces 2:12 | 65 |
| 15 | Droppin Jewels 3:38 | 70 |
| 16 | Fifth Day Dead 2:30 | 65 |
| 17 | Icy Hot 3:36 feat. Doja Cat | 44 |
| 18 | Love You More 3:41 | 71 |
| 19 | Hate The Game 2:44 | 68 |
| 20 | Day Before 2:15 feat. Mac Miller | 75 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 3 minutes
Year End Lists
| #29 | / | Rolling Stone |
| #31 | / | Complex |
| #45 | / | NME |
| #46 | / | Crack Magazine |
| / | Uproxx |
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Added on: August 22, 2019