Beautiful Thugger Girls

Beautiful Thugger Girls
Mixtape by Young Thug
Released June 16, 2017 (2017-06-16)
Recorded 2015–2017
Studio
Genre
Length 56:37
Label
Producer
Young Thug chronology
Jeffery
(2016)		 Beautiful Thugger Girls
(2017)		 Young Martha
(2017)

Beautiful Thugger Girls (stylized as BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS) is a mixtape by American rapper Young Thug.[2][3] It was released on June 16, 2017, by 300 Entertainment and Atlantic Records.[3] It features guest appearances from Future, Gunna, Jacquees, Lil Durk, Millie Go Lightly, Quavo, and Snoop Dogg. 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, and debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200. It also debuted 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.[4] After several delays, the release date was hinted a week before release and officially confirmed two days before release.[5][6][7] 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.[8][9][10] Although it has been referred to as an album by Young Thug, 300 Entertainment have reported it as a commercial mixtape.[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.8/10[11]
Metacritic84/100[12]
Review scores
SourceRating
The A.V. ClubB+[13]
Exclaim!9/10[14]
Pitchfork8.0/10[15]
PopMatters8/10[16]
Pretty Much AmazingB+[17]
Spin(favorable)[18]
XXL4/5[19]

Beautiful Thugger Girls received acclaim from critics.[20][12] 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.[12] 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.[15] Scott Glaysher of XXL said, "Thug sounds the best he's ever sounded, despite some of the songs begin fairly far removed from his proverbial comfort zone."[19] 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."[17] 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."[21]

The A.V. Club's 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."[13] 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."[18] 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."[14]

Accolades

Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
Crack Magazine The Top 100 Albums of 2017
87
HipHopDX HipHopDX's Best Rap Albums of 2017
19
Rap-Up Rap-Up's 20 Best Albums of 2017
20
Spin 50 Best Albums of 2017
22

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.[26]

Track listing

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[27]

Beautiful Thugger Girls[3]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Family Don't Matter" (featuring Millie Go Lightly)
4:55
2."Tomorrow Til Infinity" (featuring Gunna)
  • Kudo
  • Benjamin Diehl
  • Kudo
  • Ben Billions
3:48
3."She Wanna Party" (featuring Millie Go Lightly)
  • Williams
  • Kudo
  • Ryan Vojtesak
  • Griffiths
  • Kudo
  • Charlie Handsome
4:10
4."Daddy's Birthday"
3:28
5."Do U Love Me"
  • Williams
  • Holmes
London3:29
6."Relationship" (featuring Future)
  • Williams
  • Eduardo Burgess
  • Jonathan De La Rosa
  • Tariq Sharrieff
  • Billboard Hitmakers
  • BLSSD
3:35
7."You Said" (featuring Quavo)
  • Williams
  • Glass
Wheezy6:42
8."On Fire"
  • Williams
  • Glass
  • Holmes
  • Wheezy
  • Charlie Handsome
3:59
9."Get High" (featuring Snoop Dogg and Lil Durk)
Young Chop4:53
10."Feel It"
  • Williams
  • Glass
Wheezy3:56
11."Me or Us"
  • Williams
  • Kudo
  • Vojtesak
2:37
12."Oh Yeah"
  • Williams
  • Glass
Wheezy3:49
13."For Y'all" (featuring Jacquees)
  • Williams
  • Burgess
Billboard Hitmakers3:39
14."Take Care"
  • Williams
  • Paul Judge
Judge3:37
Total length:56:37

Notes

  • "Tomorrow Til Infinity" originally did not feature vocals by Gunna
  • "You Said" originally did not feature vocals by Quavo
  • The vinyl version of "Me or Us" features a guest appearance by Travis Scott[28]

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[27]

Charts

References

  1. ↑ "Production Credits for Young Thug's 'Beautiful Thugger Girls' Album". XXL. June 16, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  2. 1 2 Martgetson, Sydney. "YOUNG THUG LIFTS THE CURTAIN ON "BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS"". Atlantic Records. Retrieved July 9, 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS by Young Thug on Apple Music". iTunes. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Young Thug ひ on Twitter: "Singing album this week..." April 26, 2017. Archived from the original on June 29, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017 – via Twitter.
  5. ↑ "Young Thug ひ on Twitter: "16th". June 9, 2017. Archived from the original on June 29, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017 – via Twitter.
  6. ↑ "Young Thug Announces "Easy Breezy Beautiful Thugger Girls" Album". Rap Wave. April 26, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Young Thug Announces E.B.B.T.G. Release Date". The Fader. June 9, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Listen To Young Thug's New Album, 'Beautiful Thugger Girls'". Noisey. June 16, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Young Thug's Long-Awaited Beautiful Thugger Girls Is Here". The Fader. June 16, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Stream Young Thug's New Album 'Beautiful Thugger Girls'". HipHop-N-More. June 16, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Beautiful Thugger Girls by Young Thug reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
  12. 1 2 3 "Reviews and Tracks for Beautiful Thugger Girls by Young Thug". Metacritic. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
  13. 1 2 Pagnani, Renatio. "Big Boi, Jeff Tweedy, Young Thug, and more in this week's music reviews". The A.V. Club. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
  14. 1 2 Zoledziowski, Anya. "Young Thug Beautiful Thugger Girls". Exclaim!. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
  15. 1 2 Thompson, Paul A. (June 20, 2017). "Beautiful Thugger Girls Album Review | Pitchfork". Pitchfork. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  16. ↑ Gu, Marshall (July 11, 2017). "Young Thug: Beautiful Thugger Girls". PopMatters. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  17. 1 2 Bromfield, Daniel. "Young Thug: Beautiful Thugger Girls". Pretty Much Amazing. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
  18. 1 2 Cook-Wilson, Winston (June 21, 2017). "Review: Young Thug – Beautiful Thugger Girls". Spin. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
  19. 1 2 Glaysher, Scott (June 29, 2017). "Young Thug Experiments Freely on 'Beautiful Thugger Girls' Album". XXL. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
  20. ↑ Kirkpatrick, Emily (June 23, 2017). "young thug's 'beautiful thugger girls' does not align with covergirl's values". i-D. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
  21. ↑ Maynard, Judnick (June 20, 2017). "The Infinite Melodies Of Young Thug". The Fader. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
  22. ↑ "The Top 100 Albums of 2017". Crack Magazine. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  23. ↑ "HipHopDX's Best Rap Albums Of 2017". HipHopDX. December 29, 2017. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  24. ↑ "Rap-Up's 20 Best Albums of 2017". Rap-Up. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  25. ↑ "50 Best Albums of 2017". Spin. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  26. ↑ Caulfield, Keith (June 25, 2017). "Lorde Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Melodrama'". Billboard. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  27. 1 2 Beautiful Thugger Girls (CD liner notes). Young Thug. Atlantic Records. 2017. 563019-1.
  28. ↑ Cowen, Trace William (December 13, 2017). "Young Thug and Travis Scott Go Full Ballad on "Me or Us" Remix". Complex. Retrieved December 14, 2017.
  29. ↑ "Young Thug Chart History (Canadian Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  30. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Young Thug – Beautiful Thugger Girls" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
  31. ↑ "Le Top de la semaine : Top Albums – SNEP (Week 25, 2017)". Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
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  33. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Young Thug – Beautiful Thugger Girls". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
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  36. ↑ "Young Thug Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
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