With his first new album since being released from jail a year ago, Young Thug has successfully done precisely what he’s best at: getting the entire rap world talking. It was only a few weeks ago that Thug’s social media tirades, ill-advised as they were, seemed to put the entire industry’s dirty laundry out in the open, but in Thug’s all-out honesty seems to have paved a way for an inventive new album, Uy Scuti, that manages to mend some past conflicts and chart out a way forward. With features from Future, Ken Carson , Mariah the Scientist , and 21 Savage , the record is a well-crafted comeback, reminding listeners of the kinds of dazzling lyrical acrobatics we’ve come to expect from Young Thug.

Like with so many of Thug’s projects, it starts with the cover. Carrying on a trad

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