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.
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.
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.
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.
There are countless rappers who use a similar melodic flow, but none that can so effortlessly find hidden melodies in every beat.
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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