Beautiful Thugger Girls Explained

Beautiful Thugger Girls
Type:mixtape
Artist:Young Thug
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Beautiful Thugger Girls is the fifth commercial mixtape by American rapper Young Thug. It was released on June 16, 2017, by 300 Entertainment and Atlantic Records. The mixtape features guest appearances from Millie Go Lightly, Gunna, Future, Quavo, Snoop Dogg, Lil Durk, and Jacquees. Production on the mixtape was handled by Billboard Hitmakers, Charlie Handsome, London, Rex Kudo, and Wheezy, among others.

Beautiful Thugger Girls received acclaim from critics, debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200, and at number four on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

Background

On April 26, 2017, Young Thug originally announced that the project would be titled E.B.B.T.G., an abbreviation for Easy Breezy Beautiful Thugger Girls, which was a play on "easy, breezy, beautiful CoverGirl" as the slogan for CoverGirl.[1] After several delays, the release date was hinted a week before release and officially confirmed two days before release.[2] [3] [4] Beautiful Thugger Girls was described by Young Thug as a "singing album", which includes crossovers to musical genres such as R&B, dancehall and country.[5] [6] [7] Although it has been referred to as an album by Young Thug, 300 Entertainment have reported it as a commercial mixtape.[8]

Critical reception

Beautiful Thugger Girls was met with widespread critical acclaim.[9] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the mixtape received an average score of 84, based on eight reviews. Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 7.8 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.

Paul Thompson of Pitchfork labelled Beautiful Thugger Girls Young Thug's "most compelling experiment in pop", saying it "strips away all the clutter, leaving his best-developed melodies and most evocative songwriting to date" while comparing it to Lil Wayne's Rebirth. Scott Glaysher of XXL said, "Thug sounds the best he's ever sounded, despite some of the songs begin [sic] fairly far removed from his proverbial comfort zone". Daniel Bromfield of Pretty Much Amazing argued "Young Thug cycles through a lot of styles here: lovebird R&B, sensitive acoustic folk, even country. But he doesn't terraform them to his whims so much as try them on for size". Judnick Maynard of The Fader commented that Beautiful Thugger Girls "becomes more than a country album: the music isn't his master, instead he bends it to his will", and is a "testament to Young Thug's constantly evolving creative reach".[10] Tiny Mix Tapess Corrigan B stated: "Beautiful Thugger Girls is remarkable because of its Thugger-ness" but noted that "Beautiful Thugger Girls marks the point at which his pure lyricism, absent an unimpeachable sense of melody and flow, has begun to detract from the project as a whole."

The A.V. Clubs Renatio Pagnani stated: "Few artists manage to balance wide-eyed eroticism with genuine warmth, and fewer manage the feat while packing multiple albums' worth of hooks into each song. For Thug, it's just his default mode." Winston Cook-Wilson of Spin said, "The album feels unprecedented within his catalog because it strikes a balance Thug has never quite pulled off on a single project: mixing a unified, album-wide sound with moments of aggressive experimentation and nagging hooks".[11] Exclaim! critic Anya Zoledziowski thought that "Beautiful Thugger Girls—which lists Drake as executive producer—pushes the boundaries of Atlanta hip-hop while adding yet another groundbreaking project to the trapper's discography".

Robert Christgau was less impressed in his column for Vice. While highlighting "Take Care" and "Family Don't Matter", he summarized the mixtape as "singsong porn from a purple people eater who's seldom as funny as he used to be and sometimes funnier than he wants to be".

Year-end lists

Publication! scope="col" class="unsortable"
ListRank
Crack MagazineThe Top 100 Albums of 2017
HipHopDXHipHopDXs Best Rap Albums of 2017
Rap-UpRap-Ups 20 Best Albums of 2017
Spin50 Best Albums of 2017

Commercial performance

Beautiful Thugger Girls debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200 and number four on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums with 37,000 album-equivalent units of which 7,000 were pure album sales in its first week of release.[12] On December 6, 2019, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over 500,000 units in the United States.

Track listing

Notes

Samples

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[14]

Performers

Technical

Production

Additional personnel

Charts

Year-end charts

Chart (2017)! scope="col"
Position
US Billboard 200[15] 161
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[16] 57

Release history

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DateLabel(s)Format(s)Ref.
VariousJune 16, 2017[17]
January 26, 2018Vinyl[18]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Young Thug ひ on Twitter: "Singing album this week.... Twitter. April 26, 2017. June 16, 2017. bot: unknown. https://archive.today/20170629214236/https://twitter.com/youngthug/status/857388264621092864. June 29, 2017. mdy-all.
  2. Web site: Young Thug ひ on Twitter: "16th. Twitter. June 9, 2017. June 16, 2017. bot: unknown. https://archive.today/20170629214456/https://twitter.com/youngthug/status/873245890361819137. June 29, 2017. mdy-all.
  3. Web site: Young Thug Announces "Easy Breezy Beautiful Thugger Girls" Album. Rap Wave. April 26, 2017. June 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170624171544/http://www.rapwave.net/2017/04/26/young-thug-announces-easy-breezy-beautiful-thugger-girls-album/. June 24, 2017. live.
  4. Web site: Young Thug Announces E.B.B.T.G. Release Date. The Fader. June 9, 2017. June 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170611234436/http://www.thefader.com/2017/06/09/young-thug-ebbtg-release-date. June 11, 2017. live.
  5. Web site: Listen To Young Thug's New Album, 'Beautiful Thugger Girls'. Noisey. June 16, 2017. June 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20200603081045/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8qpebv/listen-to-young-thugs-new-album-beautiful-thugger-girls. June 3, 2020. live.
  6. Web site: Young Thug's Long-Awaited Beautiful Thugger Girls Is Here. The Fader. June 16, 2017. June 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170616093954/http://www.thefader.com/2017/06/15/young-thug-beautiful-thugger-girls. June 16, 2017. live.
  7. Web site: Stream Young Thug's New Album 'Beautiful Thugger Girls'. HipHop-N-More. June 16, 2017. June 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170619214433/http://hiphop-n-more.com/2017/06/stream-young-thugs-new-album-beautiful-thugger-girls. June 19, 2017. live.
  8. Web site: Martgetson. Sydney. YOUNG THUG LIFTS THE CURTAIN ON "BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS". Atlantic Records. July 9, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170801044003/http://press.atlanticrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/YOUNG-THUG-BTG.doc. August 1, 2017. live.
  9. Web site: young thug's 'beautiful thugger girls' does not align with covergirl's values. i-D. Kirkpatrick. Emily. June 23, 2017. February 14, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180214202739/https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/wjd59m/young-thugs-beautiful-thugger-girls-does-not-align-with-covergirls-values. February 14, 2018. live.
  10. Web site: The Infinite Melodies Of Young Thug. The Fader. Maynard. Judnick. June 20, 2017. June 21, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170623055535/http://www.thefader.com/2017/06/20/young-thug-beautiful-thugger-girls-album-essay. June 23, 2017. live.
  11. Web site: Cook-Wilson. Winston. Review: Young Thug's Beautiful Thugger Girls Is His Strongest, Most Unified Project In Years. Spin. June 21, 2017. June 29, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170701114554/http://www.spin.com/2017/06/young-thug-beautiful-thugger-girls-review/. July 1, 2017. live.
  12. Lorde Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Melodrama'. Caulfield. Keith. Billboard. June 25, 2017. June 26, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170626022349/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7842114/lorde-melodrama-no-1-album-billboard-200-chart. June 26, 2017. live.
  13. Web site: Cowen. Trace William. Young Thug and Travis Scott Go Full Ballad on "Me or Us" Remix. Complex. December 13, 2017. December 14, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171213233725/http://www.complex.com/music/2017/12/young-thug-travis-scott-me-or-us-remix. December 13, 2017. live.
  14. Beautiful Thugger Girls. Vinyl liner notes. Young Thug. Atlantic Records. 2017. 563019-1.
  15. Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2017. Billboard. January 31, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20171224115207/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/top-billboard-200-albums. December 24, 2017. live.
  16. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 2017. Billboard. June 29, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20171224115212/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/top-r-and-b-hip-hop-albums. December 24, 2017. live.
  17. Web site: Stream Young Thug's 'Beautiful Thugger Girls' Album Feat. Future, Snoop Dogg And More. Vibe. Robertson. Darryl. June 16, 2017. October 20, 2020.
  18. Web site: Young Thug – Beautiful Thugger Girls (Vinyl LP). Amoeba Music. October 20, 2020.

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