Young Thug Best Posts: Lyor and Thug debate Thug's songwriting process

  1. Narsh
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    Apr 14, 2016
    Or they could not f--- with the way he creates and manage his output better

    dont f---ing let The Promise and Makaveli decay as leaks and then complain that thug doesnt make more fully fleshed out songs

    they exist. the people around him need to be better at their job.
     
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  2. Narsh
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    Apr 14, 2016
    in this short clip thug and lyor debate thug's "mystic" as an artist and his songwriting process

    http://www.thefader.com/2016/04/14/young-thug-and-lyor-cohen-debate-songwriting-cnbc



    thug >>>>>>

    this has me crying lmfao "you just record so many songs u gotta come back to them and --" "nope. no i dont. the critics come back!"

    :dead:

    least compromising artist oat
     
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  3. Slime
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    Slime young thug like 2pac's baby picture

    Apr 14, 2016
    and i think thug should take lyor's advice. that's the 1 thing holding him back. digits would be so much better if it wasn't just an amazing hook with average thug verses
     
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  4. Narsh
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  5. Slime
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    Slime young thug like 2pac's baby picture

    Apr 14, 2016
    just finished watching the whole episode. decent watch. the discussion in OP got intense :whew:

    lyor: "right now kanye west is making over a million dollars a show, how much are you making SON?"
    thug: "50 f---in thousand!"

    they played a lil bit of fetty's verse on Birthday Song (working title) and lyor added a new 300 artist Conrad Sewell to the song but he hadn't told thug or fetty at the time of filming. they ended the episode with lyor showing thug the new version to get his approval (conrad's vocals sounded nice from the clip they played). thug's response was "you know what? i don't think it's a bad song. i think that i've heard mine's too much, to the point that anybody else on it i'ma be like 'nah i don't like it.' but the voc-- who is that?" lyor told him it was his artist conrad and thug replied "i'm gonna do you a favor and i'm gonna let you keep him on it. but, i, he's not gonna be on top of me. you should have him under me." then they agreed to go to the studio and do thug's vocals

    snippet of birthday song for those who haven't heard

     
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