(There’s nothing here like “Flava,” a daring piece of Nth-wave G-funk that should have been a hit as big as “Lifestyle.”) Many of the songs involve repeating keyboard riffs, stern and plangent. Barter 6‘s beats are consistent but less frenetic compared to tracks from past Thug releases - lower variance but also lower mean. Instead, this album offers cohesion and unity, though maybe at the expense of the exciting, what-will-happen next feel of past mixtapes. 1, with Rich Homie Quan and Birdman, arrived last September, the Thug/Quan collaboration “Lifestyle” was well on its way to being a hit.īarter 6 does not have a comparable entry point. When Black Portland, Thug’s mixtape with Bloody Jay, came out in January 2014, the remarkable “Danny Glover” was already making its rounds on the Internet. More importantly, this project arrives without a buzz-building single. First, Thug was forced to change this project’s name at the last moment thanks to a threat of legal action by Lil Wayne, who was not amused when Thug titled it Carter 6, tipping to Wayne’s much-delayed Tha Carter V. Young Thug: A Case for the Rising Rapper (Op-Ed)īarter 6 is a mixtape (though it’s on sale via iTunes), and it arrives in a different manner than his last two notable full-lengths.
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