One thing about Young Thug is that any time he drops new music, he comes correct and never drops the ball. Having brought endless heat with his catalog, Thugger has influenced a great amount of young artists from his style of rap to his fashion sense. While still racking in numbers from his Slime & B mixtape with Chris Brown (“Go Crazy” is currently 2x platinum and has over 67 million YouTube views), the Atlanta rapper made sure Santa gifted us all with an early Christmas gift with the release of his Slime Language 2 compilation album. If you thought it was going to be anything short of solid, you clearly though wrong.
It was just four years ago when Thugger made the major announcement that he was creating his own music imprint Young Stoner Life Records under 300 Entertainment. A lot has changed since then. Hip Hop has become the most popular genre for the first time in music history, and YSL has signed over a dozen artists and released over 50 projects, eight of which have charted on the Billboard 200. But through all those changes, two things have remained constant — Young Thug is by no means “just” an artist, and YSL isn’t an ordinary label. YSL’s influence on the sound of modern rap is indisputable, but the label’s real superpower comes from its close-knit relationships. From its inception, YSL has operated as a family, with Thug recruiting his siblings and longtime friends to make up the roster of the label.