“I put on my brothers, I put on my bitch/Had to wear the dress, ’cause I had a stick,” he raps on “Just How It Is”. Thug sounds elated to be making music across So Much Fun, unloading quirky stream-of-consciousness bars like rounds from one of the many guns he so often cites. A little more than halfway through 2019, Thugger awards his fans’ patience with So Much Fun, an album that not only reminds us what we’d been missing, but one whose title seems to speak directly to the experience of creating it. Never lacking in feature work, the majority of Thug’s career saw him release multiple projects annually before dropping the Future collaboration SUPER SLIMEY and the YSL Records showcase Slime Language in 20, respectively.
There aren’t many rappers who can claim to have the stylistic influence that Young Thug has had-a fact that may or may not have slowed the once prolific artist’s rate of output.
