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https://www.thefader.com/2019/08/21/young-thug-so-much-fun-cover-story pisze:Aside from So Much Fun, Thug has been working on another album called Punk. When we speak in late July, Thug says he hopes to release Punk in “two months,” and he speaks with more enthusiasm about this project than So Much Fun. “It’s most definitely touching music,” Thug says. “It’s music that the world is going to embrace.” The title, both pejorative and an honorific, has a personal meaning for him: “[Punk] means brave, not self centered, conscious. Very, very neglected, very misunderstood. Very patient, very authentic.”

Young Thug wants Punk to mark the reentry of what he calls “real rap” into the culture. “[Real rap is] letting people in, letting people know what you go through. Let them know that you the same,” he says. Thug has never shied away from appearing vulnerable in his music. But his social media presence has become more explicitly revealing — in 2018, he tweeted “At war with depression,” and recently shared a clutch of Instagram videos containing prayers for those close to him.

“I just want to open up,” Thug says. “Let people know that I’m not just a rapper, I’m a human being. Let people know whatever they go through, I done been through or somebody done been through it. Those are the things that make people grow. People that want to commit suicide, you might give them another chance.”

Like every beloved popular musician with substance and staying power, Thug’s fans classify his catalogue into eras. Some fans use the changing color of Thug’s dreads over the years to indicate their favorite releases (the blonde dreadlocked-era Thug is frequently mentioned as a particular hot streak). Punk is the “Poet Thug” era, Be El Be says; he’s even making more of an effort to enunciate his words. Thug speaks with urgency when he says he wants to speak against “wickedness” he sees every day. “The world is big on the Internet. If we can get another rapper like Tupac that the world can shine a real light on, they can really teach us. They really can teach the kids.”