On April 26, Young Thug took to Twitter to announce that he’d be dropping his “singing album” — apparently titled Easy Breezy Beautiful Thugger Girls (E.B.B.T.G.) — “this week.” It’s been almost two weeks, and there’s still no sign of the record.
A lot of hype had built up around the release, not just because of Thugger’s new sound, but because he had also claimed that the album had been executive produced by Drake.
Young Thug later revised his expectations, dropping a (since-deleted) Instagram post where he said E.B.B.T.G. would come out this week instead (as in, this week happening right now). Of course, that post is gone now, so the mystery continues.
As it stands, Thugger has wiped his Instagram clean of all put one post. Though the post seems to be promoting the album with a caption that contains nothing but the initials of the project, the image itself is of the crying laugh emoji — the kind of emoji people bring out when they want you to know that you’ve been had.
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Nevertheless, social media blackouts are nothing new when it comes to artists gearing up to drop new music. In many ways, it makes sense as a marketing tactic since a clean slate is sure to get people’s attention.
More evidence of impending new material comes from engineer Alex Tumay, who has been tweeting photos of Thugger in the studio, and has reported that the rapper has been laying some of “the most ridiculous flows [he’s] ever heard.”
And frequent production collaborator London on da Track has corroborated the story…
As for a strict release date, there’s nothing yet, and we already know that “time is a fabricated construct,” so whether E.B.B.T.G drops this week remains to be seen… But it is coming.
