{"id":20314,"date":"2025-09-16T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/20314\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:49:11","slug":"young-thug-im-up-rapreviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/20314\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Thug :: I\u2019m Up \u2013 RapReviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last October after a protracted legal battle Young Thug accepted a plea<\/a> in his ongoing RICO case. The terms include some pretty heavy penalties if he violates probation (20 years behind bars for a single violation in the next 15 years) but sent him home a free man. After so much drama<\/a> in his life I\u2019m personally thankful that Jeffery Lamar Williams II can close this chapter and get a fresh start. To celebrate that outcome I\u2019m taking a look at one of his pre-incarceration albums titled \u201cI\u2019m Up<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m Up<\/a>\u201d is simultaneously a very short and surprisingly long album. It\u2019s only nine songs in total but has a run time of 38 minutes, meaning it\u2019s easily double the length of many modern releases with half as many tracks. That results in another case where I feel calling something a \u201cmixtape\u201d is a misnomer. I\u2019m old school enough to remember when a mixtape was either a curated selection of songs from a popular deejay or a collection of freestyles to other people\u2019s instrumentals you released between albums. This is neither of those things. There\u2019s no reason to call what Thug did on this a \u201cmixtape\u201d at all. He even went out of his way to film music videos to support songs like \u201cFor My People\u201d and \u201cKing Troup.\u201d<\/p>\n

This album is also loaded up with guest stars and top flight producers. From the very start Quavo appears on \u201cF Cancer (Boosie)\u201d and Mike Will Made It<\/a> provides the beat. Trouble, Ralo and Lil Durk are all on \u201cMy Boys,\u201d Offset and Solo Lucci are on \u201cSpecial,\u201d and \u201cBread Winners\u201d features Young Butta just to name a few. I\u2019m not at all familiar with Dora (\u201cLil Dora from that fuckin Zone 3\u201d) and Dolly but they contribute to the closing song \u201cFamily\u201d and thanks to London On Da Track this is a fine way to wrap up his presentation.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve given you nothing but good news so far. If it\u2019s a trope of my reviews that I flip the script a few paragraphs in, you\u2019ll be pleased that I\u2019m about to meet your expectations. I can celebrate Young Thug beating the case personally, but I\u2019m still ambivalent when I listen to his studio modulated sing-rapping. I don\u2019t expect him to be a positive force for good with his bars (his P.O. might) but there\u2019s a relentless negativity to songs like \u201cHercules\u201d you can\u2019t miss if you\u2019re paying attention to his words.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrop the top, shoot birds at the officers (fuck \u2019em)
Fuck them boys, they costing us, they stalking us
They know they old lady not running, they fall for us
We so tired of taking losses, ain\u2019t no more chalking us, I promise
YSL on ape and they donkeys
These niggaz pointless, they want me wanted\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s even more ironic in context \u2014 the song is produced by Metro Boomin<\/a> and the two were BEEFING on social media at the time. This isn\u2019t unprecedented for Mr. Williams. In fact I did something I rarely do on this website and asked him to consider his actions<\/a> when it came to his use and abuse of social media. That was almost a decade ago and let\u2019s face it social media has gotten a whole lot worse since then. As for \u201cI\u2019m Up<\/a>\u201d though I\u2019m forced to tell you it\u2019s nothing special. If you were already a Young Thug fan you\u2019d still be after listening, and if you weren\u2019t nothing here would hook you. Despite all of the big names involved there\u2019s not a single song that demands multiple replays. There are singles, but they are far from the kind that made him a rap star, which may justify this being a \u201cmixtape\u201d after all.<\/p>\n

Young Thug :: I’m Up<\/p>\n

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