Top 10 Best Songs on Young Thug's Jeffery

You either love or hate Young Thug. I am pretty sure there's little in between.

Judging by this site's general taste in music, I guess not too many will like him. And yeah, it might be a bit hard to get into his music at first if you only listen to the lyrics, because it's about something entirely different. The experience counts.

Young Thug is a bit like scat-singing in jazz. He fully loses himself in the music and plays his voice like an instrument rather than only communicating through it. He plays with it, flows along with the music, and there is always something going on in his voice. He's more of a performance artist than a songwriter, and it might not be what many people want to hear, but I really enjoy it.

His older mixtape work, such as "I Came From Nothing 2" or "1017 Thug," was more conventional, less rooted in trap, and focused more on wordplay, which may be more interesting for you.

"Jeffery" is an awesome album. It's often called a mixtape, but it really feels more like an album. His older mixtapes consisted of about 20 tracks arranged as a non-stop megamix without a concept. "Jeffery" has ten perfectly thought-out individual tracks that still share a common feel. To me, that is an album, and one I really like.

Its songs feel alive and moving. They don't feel structured like a regular radio-friendly rap record, yet they are still very easy to listen to once you get hooked on this style. I am very glad I bought this piece of music. It is one of two trap albums from 2016 that made something unconventionally musical out of the genre, the other being Fler's "Vibe," a German hip hop album that established trap as a counter-movement to the focus on complex lyrics in German rap instead of flow and musicality.

The Top Ten

  1. Harambe

    Modern-day scat singing in hip hop. Listen to all these hoarse syllables and the trumpet-like vocal delivery. This is pure fun to listen to.

    It is also the song where Thug is most playful with his voice. He barely sounds like himself on here.

  2. Wyclef Jean

  3. Future Swag

    This flow and beat remind me of DatAdam so much, even though they have a much bigger focus on lyrics than Young Thug.

    But really, listen to the audio sample of DatAdam's "" (on the list of best DatAdam songs) and then to the sample of this song.

  4. Guwop

  5. Pick Up the Phone

  6. RiRi

  7. Floyd Mayweather

    Easily the best on the album. Maybe Wyclef is better, but that's it.

  8. Webbie

  9. Kanye West

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  10. Swizz Beatz

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