Young Thug’s relationship with Elton John is one that continues to flourish, particularly after sampling him on “High.” During a recent interview with Billboard, the English rock icon admitted he was “blown away” by Thugger’s freestyle skills in the studio. So much, he thought it was more impressive than what Eminem had showed him.
“I mean, I’ve seen Marshall [Mathers] do it in Detroit, but I’ve never seen someone like Thug come in and do that,” he said. “In the end, I had to leave because I think he felt a bit intimidated that I was there and I just wanted him to relax. But it’s just an amazing moment in my musical life… I have no understanding of how rap records are put together and it’s fascinating to watch.”
“High” was released in 2018, but the pair met years before the song was out. During their first encounter, Elton John encouraged Young Thug to sing more in his music.
“He wanted to meet me…and we shot the breeze for 40 minutes,” he explained. “He said, ‘What do you think? What advice would you give me?’ I said, ‘Did you sing in the choir?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, of course I sang in the choir. Gospel choir.’ I said, ‘Sing more. Don’t just rap, sing more, because the mixture of rap and musicianship and melody is what really makes rap take off.’ And he’s doing that now.”
Elton John has an upcoming song with Young Thug and Nicki Minaj called “Always Love You,” which is set to appear on his Lockdown Sessions album out October 22.
Praise from Elton John is a major accomplishment on its own, but even more so considering his 20-year friendship with Eminem that dates back to performing “Stan” at the 2001 Grammy Awards. The pair have remained close ever since, with John even helping Em maintain sobriety.
“I’m Eminem’s AA sponsor,” he wrote in his 2019 memoir, Me. “Whenever I ring to check in on him, he always greets me the same way: ‘Hello, you cunt’, which I guess is very Eminem.”
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Explaining to the Detroit Metro Times in 2009, Eminem said, “I talk to Elton a lot. We became friends and I talk to him about things, career wise. And he had a substance abuse problem in the past. So when I first wanted to get sober, I called him and spoke to him about it because, you know, he’s somebody who’s in the business and can identify and relate to the lifestyle and how hectic things can be.
“He understands like the pressure and any other reasons that you wanna come up with for doing drugs, you know. Me and him have had similar lives and stuff. So I reached out to him and told him, ‘Look, I’m going through a problem and I need your advice.'”
Elton John is either senile or just trying to stay relevant. Either way, this generation is going to have to one to terms with the fact that their “artists” have zero talent. Its all just promotion and fuckery.
He’s Elton John. He doesn’t need to “stay relevant” lol. His advice no matter what genre of music you are in is invaluable.
Nobody outside of the hip hop universe talks about being relevant. It’s embarrassing, y’all should come up with something else.
Yeah….. Nah, definitely nah
True. Elton is a hiphop expert.
No, he’s a dick hop expert. There’s a difference. Ask Amber Rose.
Ok,it’s definitely official. Young Thug is really gay. I was a fan of his but I’ve been skeptical over the last few years but this is the last straw. He either sucked Elton John’s dick or gave up the ass for him to say that because there’s no way he’s anywhere close to Eminem’s level. Young Thug was in a different category when it came to rap but now after all the dressing in women’s clothing, talks of smoking penises, hanging with men who look and act like women, always wearing tight clothing, and always craving attention… Coupled with him first talking trash about Elton John then immediately dropping down on both knees just to get a feature from him afterwards, I finally realized *It was obvious he was gay* ,that he was just too gay of an artist for me to listen to anymore.
Elton John receiving that long black meat that makes his ass hole bleed and he loves it…
No, YoungButtPlugga is just better at sucking dick than Elton John but he won’t admit it so he’s got to say Eminem and his freestyling skills to try not to make it seem SuS.
Young Thug took Elton John to YoungButtPluggaLand LMAO!!!
Elton John is HIGH..
lol you have two known the 4 elements of hip hop freestyling graf dancing B buying
In fairness to Elton, freestyling is WAY different than preparing bars and spitting them. It’s a known fact that some great MC’s like Nas can’t really freestyle, while Snoop Dogg is one of the greatest freestylers ever. 2 different worlds. So it’s possible. On the other hand, he might really just be saying it because Young Thug sucked his dick. Who knows?
Both these dudes playing the skin flute in the studio
Why you all so homophobic? You all sound like 13yr olds on the playground versus men.
Shut up,f*****.
That’s because they ARE a bunch of lil kids…
Y’all still think I’m crazy when I say there’s a smear campaign against Eminem in the industry? No way thug freestyles better than Eminem ?
Yeah…they banged
Seems to me (and this is pure speculation) that a certain old British queen (not named Elizabeth) may have been turned down for a feature from a certain white rapper in Detroit, so what better way to burn him than to say that the guy who did come through with the feature is a better freestyler than him. And, of course, Elton’s opinion in this regard holds about as much weight as does a candle in the wind.