Beautiful Thugger Girls

Beautiful Thugger Girls
Mixtape by Young Thug
Released	June 16, 2017 (2017-06-16)
Recorded	2015–17
Studio	Various Silent Sound Studios, Billboard Studios and Mean Streets, Atlanta Jungle City Studios, New York City Criteria Studios, Miami The White House Windmark Studios, Santa Monica
Genre	Hip hop pop
Length	56:37
Label	300 Atlantic
Producer	Drake (exec.) London on da Track (also exec.) Wheezy (also exec.) Ben Billions Billboard Hitmakers BLSSD Charlie Handsome JUDGE Post Malone Rex Kudo Scott Storch Young Chop
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Beautiful Thugger Girls is a mixtape by American rapper Young Thug.^[1][2] It was released on June 16, 2017, by 300 Entertainment and Atlantic Records.^[2] Although it has been referred to as an album by Young Thug, 300 Entertainment have reported it as a commercial mixtape.^[1] The mixtape features guest appearances from Future, Gunna, Jacquees, Lil Durk, Millie Go Lightly, Quavo, and Snoop Dogg. It was executive produced by Drake, and co-executive produced by London on da Track and Wheezy. The production on the mixtape was handled by Billboard Hitmakers, Charlie Handsome, London on da Track, Rex Kudo, and Wheezy, among others.

Beautiful Thugger Girls received widespread acclaim from critics, and debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200. It also debuted at number four on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Background

On April 26, 2017, Young Thug originally announced that the project was to be titled E.B.B.T.G., an abbreviation for Easy Breezy Beautiful Thugger Girls, which was a play on "easy, breezy, beautiful CoverGirl" the slogan for CoverGirl.^[3] After several delays, the release date was hinted a week before release and officially confirmed two days before release.^[4][5][6] Beautiful Thugger Girls has been described by Young Thug as a "singing album" which includes crossovers to musical genres R&B, dancehall, and country.^[7][8][9]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.8/10[10]
Metacritic	84/100[11]
Review scores
Source	Rating
The A.V. Club	B+[12]
Exclaim!	9/10[13]
PopMatters	8/10[14]
Pretty Much Amazing	B+[15]
Pitchfork	8/10[16]
Spin	(favorable)[17]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[18]
XXL	4/5 (XL)[19]

Beautiful Thugger Girls received widespread acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the mixtape received an average score of 84, based on eight reviews.^[11] Paul Thompson of Pitchfork labelled Beautiful Thugger Girls Young Thug's "most compelling experiment in pop," saying it "strips away all the clutter, leaving his best-developed melodies and most evocative songwriting to date" while comparing it to Lil Wayne's Rebirth.^[16] Hip hop publication HipHop-N-More praised Thug's vocal performance and experimentation, describing it as "his most successful attempt at crossover success to date," concluding that "While Beautiful Thugger Girls may not be the project to catapult Thug to the next level of solo mainstream success, he does reside in pop leaning territory more frequently here than on any of his past projects."^[20] Daniel Bromfield of Pretty Much Amazing argued "Young Thug cycles through a lot of styles here: lovebird R&B, sensitive acoustic folk, even country. But he doesn't terraform them to his whims so much as try them on for size."^[15] Judnick Maynard of The Fader commented that Beautiful Thugger Girls "becomes more than a country album: the music isn't his master, instead he bends it to his will." and is a "testament to Young Thug's constantly evolving creative reach."^[21]

The A.V. Club's Renatio Pagnani stated: "Few artists manage to balance wide-eyed eroticism with genuine warmth, and fewer manage the feat while packing multiple albums' worth of hooks into each song. For Thug, it's just his default mode."^[12] Winston Cook-Wilson of Spin said, "The album feels unprecedented within his catalog because it strikes a balance Thug has never quite pulled off on a single project: mixing a unified, album-wide sound with moments of aggressive experimentation and nagging hooks."^[17] Exclaim! critic Anya Zoledziowski thought that "Beautiful Thugger Girls—which lists Drake as executive producer—pushes the boundaries of Atlanta hip-hop while adding yet another groundbreaking project to the trapper's discography."^[13] Tiny Mix Tapes's Corrigan B stated: "Beautiful Thugger Girls is remarkable because of its Thugger-ness" but noted that "Beautiful Thugger Girls marks the point at which his pure lyricism, absent an unimpeachable sense of melody and flow, has begun to detract from the project as a whole."^[18]

Commercial performance

Beautiful Thugger Girls debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200 with 37,000 album-equivalent units of which 7,000 were pure album sales.^[22]

Track listing

Album credits adapted from XXL^[23] and Young Thug's Instagram.^[24][25]

Notes

• "You Said" originally didn't feature vocals by Quavo

Personnel

Credits adapted from XXL.^[23]

Charts

References