GQ continues to unload interviews from its Legacy Project, which profiles 19 of the top music makers who’ve made a lasting impact on the entertainment industry.
Several Hip Hop artists have been included thus far, such as Rick Ross, Future, Nas and Pharrell.
Also included among those aforementioned artists is ATL upstart Young Thug.
Thugger’s rise through the Hip Hop industry took off in 2013, when he signed to Gucci Mane‘s 1017 Brick Squad Records.
Now, the rapper tells GQ he would like to remain relevant forever.
“I’ma be here forever,” Thug says in the Q&A. “I don’t want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever. I don’t want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I’m pretty sure nobody wants to do that.”
Thug, born Jeffrey Williams, is currently 23-years-old. As he gets older, he believes the youth may not find him as appeasing, due to the generational gap.
Jay Z, who is 45-years-old, has proved otherwise, but Thug isn’t looking to follow in the Hip Hop mogul’s footsteps.
“If you’re 30, 40 years old, you’re not getting listened to by minors,” Thug said. “Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age. By the time I turn that old, I ain’t gonna be doing what he’s doing… I’m pretty sure Jay Z don’t wanna rap right now.”
Instead, the “Lifestyle” rapper hopes his career will pan out like Bill Gates’ or Lil Wayne’s.
Read the full GQ interview here.
For more Young Thug coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
dear hiphopdx,
once again you are putting spotlight on somebody who is a talentless crab. Why do you continue to shine light on people who in my opinion aint hip hop or rap for that matter?
Tell this homosexual troll that rap aint for him and he part of the problem of the artform being young and stupid
this guy will not be relevant six months from now.
p.s. he’s a fucking idiot.
I agree. A fucking idiot
“By the time I turn that old, I ain’t gonna be doing what he’s doing… I’m pretty sure Jay Z don’t wanna rap right now.” He said that like Jay Z raps because he dont have any money. He’s gotta be a lil slow in the head.
Young Thug, slap yourself.
Isn’t his hubby and Rich Gang group member Birdman like the same age as Jay? Difference is Birdman could never rap and should have threw in the towel 15 years ago.
“If you’re 30, 40 years old, you’re not getting listened to by minors”
by minors? who gives a shit.. Jay’s last album went platinum, this tool will barely sell 100,000, if he even gets an album released.
Birdman and Jay-z both turning 46 this year. But who’s the one covered in shitty face tattoos running around with lil niggas in skirts half his age…
HES GONNA DIE FROM AIDS BEFORE THE AGE OF 25
wait until young thug sees birdman’s birth certificate
LOL Birdman probably told him hes 33
This lil nicca is a moron. Straight sucka! Hate those comments hip hop is like any other form of music. As a artist grows so does his music. I listen to j back in the day and as artist he can continue to do music.his audience will have grown with him. But this lil homo keep wearing you skirts and be irrevelant like he is now.
Thugga,thugga,butt plugga/Deep throatin niggas got you in this muthafucka.Paintin yo nails while you wearin a dress,then you wanna talk bout you rappin the best lol?!
thugga knows no one wants to see a 50 year old thugga mumble on stage while baby fingers him
“If you’re 30, 40 years old, you’re not getting listened to by minors,” Thug said. “Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age. By the time I turn that old, I ain’t gonna be doing what he’s doing… I’m pretty sure Jay Z don’t wanna rap right now.”………This is why the rap game is fucked up. You go to ANY rock or heavy metal concert and you’ll have dudes from 18-50 there, rockin out n havin a blast. Its that kind of thinkin that fucked the game up. And its not like all you new niggas are sayin anything different. Yall still talkin about sex,drugs,money, n violence, the same shit niggas YEARS before you have already been speakin on. Dont make it seem like you doin ANYTHING different cause you aint.
Word.
that’s right your not going to be millionaire
Nigga looks like some kinda burnt alien. Fr fr….
Nobody wants to buy ur rass but battybois and chichi man’s
How about we change the title of the article to “Jay-Z says Young Thug is too retarded to rap”
Guy just did a Victoria Hernandez to his career. AKA killed what little he had
im sure he could could the albums hes actually purchased on 2 hands so its no big loss
Math time boys and girls Jay Z 100 million records sold ………….net worth 520 mil………………….15 albums
under his belt………. What has this young homo done ohhhhh
i forgot you’ve sucked a 100 fat cocks you mush mouth fake ass gangsta
Baby’s new boo ass NINJA get the Fuck outta here
damn, so many old ass bitch made thugga haters on here. he is right, grandpa gay-z is waaaaaaaay too old to rap. 45? lol, rap is a young man’s game, always has and always will be. why do you think the younger generation sells more albums and singles than all the old irrelevant rappers? and lol at jay hopping on the latest trends to try to fit in with the new generation. fuck outta here old man.
raps not a sport
actually older established rappers like jay and em still outsell all of the rookies. all the youngns do is give music out for free so people hardly buy they shit, unless it’s a j cole or a kendrick, because their music actually has replay value
Young Thug wears little girl’s dresses and fingernail polish and calls all of his homeboys his lover, babe, or hubby. Why should anyone take him seriously? He’s not right about anything.
what about birdman youngsta, hes older than jay and has weaker bars
So Dumb Ass, you only listen to music by people under 25? Do you know how that sounds? Does music die after you turn 25? J will still rap circles around the Negroes. So, dude does not listen to Em?Snoop?Dre?50?Pusha T? Kanye?Lupe?Lil Wayne?Nas?Jada?LOX? Slauterhouse?Luda? and all of the other rappers over 25 that are still selling records, selling out shows and selling merch? Dude will be like Plies.
Actually dumb dumb, rappers USED to sell records when it was at the hands of grown ass men. In the 90s and 2000s most of the top rappers were the older heads. Nas, Jay, Luda, Eminem, DMX etc
Now that the radio stations are playing more “young” music, the sales are WAY THE FK DOWN. Leave it to nigs like J.Cole and Kendrick to lead the youth, they gonn be the 30-40 year old nig still rapping in 10-15 years cause they make timeless music, while these young ass dumb nigs is making trendy music. They can have their 15 mins of fame and disappear. Legends like Wu tang, KRS, Big Daddy Kane are still selling out tours overseas. Most of these young rappers wont be able to do that 10 years from now and maybe even 5.
niggas be like “I aint gonna be rapping when Im 30″…until they turn 30
and does this dumb gay ass nigga not know Birdman’s age?
SOOO, by his logic-this dude only listens to music that’s made by people 25 and younger? Really? Dumb ass.
same shit every rapper says. i wish jay would put him in his place lyrically. waste of time, i know, but sometimes it’s needed.
this young thug character signed his music career and publishing away for $25k with warner, got mad THEN signed to gucci, THEN asked akon’s bro for mgmt, THEN asked baby for mgmt, THEN signed to kevin liles & lyor cohen’s label, who’s a part of warner! ANYTHING this “thugga” clown says is asinine, he ain’t gonna be around in 5 years…….and he too STUPID to even see/know being around @ 40-50 means your PUBLISHING is still bringing in chips…..now YOU ask yourself, WHY isn’t lyor, kevin, baby telling him that FACT?
Clearly The new Appointed Lil wayne of cash money needs some press…..
These are the same tactics Willie Lynch used to keep his slaves under control. Pin the young Black male against the old Black male, etc. Young Thug as he calls himself is a lost brotha and needs guidance.
Willie Lynch was proven to be a fraudulent document. Stop using that bs excuse to make a point.
I will be rocking my skirt until the day I die niggas
He’s wrong. Think about all of the big mainstream rappers. Old as dirt. 2 Chainz, Ross, Jay, etc.
he prolly never even said it – I can’t understand a thing coming out his mouth so who knows?
Lmao if Jay-Z didn’t want to rap I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t be. The man is worth half a billion and his wife isn’t to far behind lol. He doesn’t need to rap. Thugga says young people aren’t buying his albums, but he is still going platinum, something Young Thug will never touch.
platinum? with that phone deal? give me a break. that platinum plaque comes with an asterisk and a footnote.
It’s less about age and more about what type of music you are making at that age, for me at least.
I don’t know this dude, be he sounds suck ass. The young kids ain’t listening to good music, it ain’t got nothing to do with age.
this dudes a clown..
who put a age limit on hiphop anyway? Young thug is trash, garbage. I wouldn’t download any of his s*** for free because there is nothing there. He tapped into the gay life of atlanta and that’s his fan base. If you love what you doing and still good at it. why not? Look paul mccartney just did a video with rihanna. Missy just did the half time show. Rick Rubin still that og. F*** this clown, i guarantee he’s not gonna be relevant in 10 years unless he comes out the closet and becomes the first gay trap rapper. just saying.
if people still care about a rapper in his 40ies that means that his audience grew with him, and his audience’s kids grew up on him too. 90% of these kids who are fans of homo thug today will be embarrassed to admit it 5-10 years from now, when they’re in the real world, trying to hold down a job and a family. the other 10% will either reside in the gay village or be registered sex offenders.
So i guess he dissing Lil wayne and Nicki Minaj too…..THEY 30? Anyway this nigga gay…im done
Clown’s feeling himself now that Baby has appointed him as his new cum rag.
“I’m pretty sure Jay Z don’t wanna rap right now.”
Jay doesn’t have to rap. Music is his smallest source of income at this point, its his hobby. And he’s still way fucking better than most. You wanna be rich forever but signed with Cash Money? Bitch please.
HONESTLY WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THIS HOMO RAPPER. JUST SURPRISED SOME OF THE IDIOTS THAT LIKE HIS JIGGABO MUSIC.
Didn’t he just make an album with 46 year old Birdman?
Baby is 52 years old.
Young Thug is a clown. Btw, the title of this article is misleading. Smh
“You won’t be around next year…” (C) Craig Mack
Meanwhile he’s sucking on Birdmam’s old a** d***… smh
Crab in the bucket mentality. You only see it in Hip Hop too… smh!
Weezy always respected jay even when he was taking shots. He got that man’s lyrics tattooed all over his body. Thats the difference between Wayne and his clone.
…young people don’t buy Jay-Z albums? Pretty sure the biggest demographic for people purchasing Jay albums is under 30.
Young Thug and Kevin Gates scare me. They remind me of those gay weirdo rappers from the Boondocks.
Its only in Hip Hop where people say a person is too old. In almost every other genre if you can sing, play a musical instrument, or perform on stage, your good. Plus whether your old or young don’t matter in Hip Hop anyway because the Hip Hop crowd don’t buy the music anyway. Just look at album sales.
Im getting sick and tired of these hyped up ass clowns
They ain’t shit, they can’t rap for shit, and they don’t give a fuck about Hip Hop
Buuut the media likes it, so they give em a platform…..WTF??
We shouldn’t even know who he is, let alone his nickname
FOHWTBS
What a fuckin idiot.
he says that shit about Jay Z because he has absolutely NO BARS !!! He might as well say i make shitty music and retarded people love it so FUCK YOU PAY ME and go FUCK yourself LoLol
this debate has been going on 4 the last 10 years….Y is there an issue with 30-40 year olds still rapping? they still have a fan base of cats in that age range. I love the fact that cats like Jay, Nas & the Wu can still put out music that people wanna hear….Y not allow the older Hip-Hop artists 2 do the same thing Jazz artists R doing by making good music regardless of age?
young thugga nigga
I love Thugga but this is garbage. Hiphop is an art form and you can’t outgrow art. Mick Jagger is still hella fuckin’ rock’n’roll with his old ass. Johnny Cash rocked the mic nearly on his deathbed. Ice-T and Kool Keith are in their 50s and still hip.
welp i hope you enjoyed your shine in the game…good luck being blackballed.
“sickest lyrics” this dude 12 yrs old using the word sickest? also he is garbage. also his ageist thoughts are what’s wrong with the genre. he infact represents what’s wrong with hip hop.
This dude is clearly an idiot. “If you’re 30, 40 years old, you’re not getting listened to by minors.”I guess the over 1.1 million records sold must have all been from people over 30 years old and all his sold out shows must be 30-40 year old fans. GTFOH. He’s out selling and do bigger venues than most of these new young artists. Clearly the young bucks are still rolling with Hova—more so than they are rolling with Young Thug.
LMAOOOOO @ “30-40 year old fans” at his shows.
Young thug it’s time to clean up, take a shower boy!
Well well Thuggy!!!!
So I guess he wont work with O.G.’s and hip hop veterans,….and he want to be rich???
Sign to Gucci???!!…how real is that???….oh and when Jay -Z was his age he rapped already beter then Thuggy ever did!!!!…fvck outta here!!!
Young Thug donkey of the year 2015 already!!!!
GARBAGE – Come at somebody like Rakim with that bullshit so we can get another Opus like the 18th Letter. Oh that’s right you’re probably to young to know and fully appreciate Rakim. Why did I start off with Rakim? For all you so called Hip-Hop heads he was born in 1968 and Jay in 1969 making him one year older than Jay and 47. i wish these ridiculous media hype rants from wanna be artists were ignored all together.
and he is too wack to rap
This dumb fuck young Thug is so stupid. First of all Jay Z got more money to last him 5 lifetimes, so he does not have to rap. Im sure the reason why Jay Z raps is because he enjoys it not because he has to. He can still sell records and sell out concerts and the longevity he has produced he can rap forever. Young Thug may be hot now, but I doubt he will have the run jay Z has had. No hate on Young Thug at all, but I give him a few more years and he will be forgotten.
I swear younger generation these days are soooooooo DUMB. They would say things out their mouth without thinking. No matter how old you are if you still making GOOD MUSIC I could be careless how old you are. And the crazy thing is Jay-Z still make better music than half of those kids in the rap game.
Yes, I bet Jay-Z is just having an awful time of life as a mid-age rapper. Poor guy, I hope he can figure out a way to hustle his way out of it.
If that’s his opinion then let him stick with it. He’ll be irrelevant in about 3 years anyway. He doesn’t represent Hip Hop. Young Thug is just another rap nigga that’s in it for the money. I hope he dies sucking on a dick.
This dude is retarded
This kid… is stupid.
“Jay-Z is too old for rap”
Wants to be like Lil Wayne or Bill Gates?
Does he not understand the difference between 100 million dollars and 73 billion?
but yet you let birdman rap yon your tracks and he older then jay-z smh thug is retarded birdman 45
this
Guy is wack.
he sleepin wit wayne
jealous
Just make him go away.
^ we agree w/ NY, so that’s like 26 million people that think he should just disappear
Just giving DX traffic now..
Birdman is 53 lmao
Young Thug will be forgotten soon like most the new rappers who come out. Jay knows what he is doing. He’ll quit when he is ready.
exactly ^ “i think Hov should start painting his nails, jumping up and down making animal noises in a dress, it would really put him at the top of a garbage generation of simple rappers from the A”
FOH
Yung thug is babybirdman’s glory hole incarnate, and should never speak on a multi platinum rapper, living legend, and established businessman like Hov
that was the same shit t pain said dat got him out the main stream #WatchUrMouth.
He needs to shut the DUCK Up. He will not be relevant at the age of 25 let along 45.. If he know his history people in their 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s grew up on rap. That like telling Smoky Robinson to stop signing because young dudes only know Chris Brown. People of all ages can relate to good music.
TELL BIRDMAN TO STOP HOPPIN ON TRACKS THEN YA FUCKING DUNCE
And I say, my son is too gay to rap!
That is why HIP HOP lost its meaning over the years, and this no talent mf just confirmed it.
Rap or hip hop, whatever you want to call it, is not based on music or talent anymore. These kids put the image over the actual music.
Rap is the only genre where age matters, lol… sre you kidding me? All other genres are respected and considered legends and people show love. In rap, they are called old, or washed up, etc. etc.. it’s become a bullshit genre.
Of course, 40-50 year olds do not need to be rapping, but there is a level of respect that should be shown, but that’s not the case.
Na Na Nigaa ! Old Skool still the best . suk it
And you are too stupid to rap, Young Nigga
Did this ugly lil nigga look at HOV’s resume???? nigga as long as you around the wackest rapper ever (birdman) all you ever gonna do is be a rapper..