Young Thug: “Anyone Can Rap If You’ve Got Brains”

    A new profile of Young Thug on Rolling Stone finds the Rich Gang managed artist revealing details about his time spent in a juvenile-detention center as a teenager as well as the incident that led to his sentence.

    During an interview with Rolling Stone writer Simon Vozick-Levinson, Young Thug also opened up about his current life.

    “I’m loving it,” Young Thug said, speaking from a studio session. “Who wouldn’t want to be me right now?”

    Birdman, who signed Thug to his Rich Gang label for a management deal earlier this year, is also quoted in the piece, saying, “Without a doubt, he’s going to be a superstar. He’s special.”

    “He looks to me like an animal locked in a cage, ready to eat the world up,” Birdman said separately in the profile.

    Addressing his current schedule in the studio, Young Thug admitted, “I never leave. All day, every day, every second. Gotta keep the money coming in.”

    Explaining how he transitioned into rap after getting into trouble as a child, Young Thug mostly shrugged off the career choice.

    “Anyone can rap if you’ve got brains,” he said. “So I just went with it.”

    “I was in the streets at eight, nine years old,” he said. “I was going to school so my dad and mom would keep buying me clothes, but when I got out I did what I wanted to do – fighting, all kinds of shit.”

    After describing how he landed in a juvenile-detention program for four years—”I broke my teacher’s arm,” he said. “Took his ass out. Pussy-ass nigga.”—Thug explained how the program didn’t keep him away from trouble.

    “Seven in the morning to six in the afternoon,” he offered of his daily life in the program. “No windows or nothing, like a real jail. Lot of punishment. I didn’t do shit there but gamble, smoke and fuck.”

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    44 thoughts on “Young Thug: “Anyone Can Rap If You’ve Got Brains”

    1. In juvie Young Thug states: “…I didn’t do shit there but gamble, smoke and fuck.” There you have it, hard facts proving he’s Atlanta’s own gay Omar

    2. “I was in the streets at eight, nine years old,” Young Thug says”… yeah turning tricks to men no doubt fucking flamer

      1. The same for NY and the west coast too. Tired of these biased ass lames who acts like the south only has garbage artists.

    3. “I didn’t do shit there but gamble, smoke and fuck.” uh I assume when he said “fuck” he meant the female correctional officers. Cuz you ain’t gettin no young pussy in juvie…

    4. This is a ‘rapper’ that has sucked a lot of dicks hip hop has been dying slow last 10 years this nigga dancing in the little girls dress was the lowest point. He went to juve gambled lost the bet had to be punished so the fellas all fucked him for 4 years paying him with cigarette butts…………..

    5. That’s why some rappers are so wack nowadays.Anybody probaby can rap.but not anybody can do it skilfully.Just because u can do something it doesn’t mean that ur good at it.Anybody is capable of playing basketball etc but it doesn’t mean their good enough to be signed to a professional team lol

    6. They must likely needed a translator for him in order to do the interview since he can talk like a normal human being.

    7. “I broke my teacher’s arm,” he said. “Took his ass out. Pussy-ass nigga.”

      Whoa, look out everyone, we got a bad-ass over here.

    8. There is nothing wrong with young thug actually he is Very sexy if I can get him to listen to ly music he will fall in love I bet you he got a plumped booty wish he was single maybe me him and birdman can make a baby I’m not gay I just Like boys young thug nose rings and white wine and I can be a boy thot do anyone need thirty cock’s suck I need to suck some dick really bad you can even play with my booty hole I won’t our you we an be discreet I got a nice booty if you want to get pleased let le know @Judah nazura

      1. I like your profile brother. Let’s all get together.You got kik , we can all have fun this is not the place to talk but you Faeroe me and I will choke my chicken I’m horny for some boy pussy now.

    9. “I didn’t do shit there but gamble, smoke and fuck” huh? if you’re in juvie doesn’t that mean you’re in a house full of boys? maybe that’s what turned him out lol

      1. EXACTLY. DISGUSTING. IM NOT BIG ON CONSPIRACY THEORIES BUT SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE THIS INFILTRATION OF GAYNESS IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES IS NOT NORMAL OR COOL.

    10. What he really said was ‘Anyone can rap if you can give birdman brain’…………….Belive that Playboiii (rubs hands together)

    11. my homie used to go to juvie and come back saying how they had pool tables, a swimming pool, big screen tv with the playstation and all the games. it was no wonder he kept going back! it sounded better than his parents house!

    12. Anybody can rap just like anybody can play basketball. But how many people are a kobe, jordan, or dr.dre

    13. These new homo thug rappers will do anything for their label masters lol give them top and dance and tables and allsorts lol I guess homo thugs need these kind of rappers to listen to lmao

    14. That thought is what’s wrong with rap…yes anyone can rap, not anyone will be good or is supposed to….how bout u use that same brain to find the profession for you. Rap is over saturated cause people have the “this is easy, I can do this” mentality.

    15. SO….IN JUVENILE DETENTION ALL HE DID WAS DRINK, SMOKE AND FUCK !?!?!?!?!?! SO IM ASSUMING IT WAS AN ALL BOYS JUVIE ?!?!?! DISGUSTING. IM SICK OF THE GAY MESS. KEEP IN MIND YOUNG BLACK BOYS ARE GROWING UP LISTENING TO THIS SHA SHAPING THEIR PLAY DOH MINDS. THE WORLD IS GOING TO HELL.

    16. No. Anyone can rap like a bum as long as you have a brain. True rap skill requires talent, something very few rappers have these days.

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