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Two weeks before the arrival of UY Scuti, Young Thug\u2019s first release since he took a plea deal from state prosecutors for his involvement in the YSL racketeering case, he dropped \u201cMiss My Dogs.\u201d It\u2019s a meandering and wounded apology to the sundry friends and industry associates that he criticized during a series of leaked phone conversations<\/a> he made while still in jail; as well as his current girlfriend, R&B star Mariah the Scientist, whom he admitted to cheating on. The music, produced by London on Da Track \u2013 a longtime Thug collaborator who helmed the Rich Gang classic \u201cLifestyle\u201d as well as Ariana Grande\u2019s Billboard chart-topper \u201cPositions\u201d \u2013 and BeatsByJuko, sounds like airy arena-pop, with orchestral keyboards swells and Thug\u2019s soaring voice in the background. \u201cBaby, I\u2019m sorry\/One of my biggest fears is losing you to the internet,\u201d he raps in his familiar melodic voice, as he addresses Mariah. \u201cPillow talkin\u2019 ain\u2019t my game.\u201d<\/p>\n There are numerous moments on UY Scuti just like \u201cMiss My Dogs.\u201d (Old heads will note the irony of the latter title, which evokes Lil Wayne\u2019s 2004 classic \u201cI Miss My Dawgs.\u201d Thug famously claimed Wayne as his \u201cidol\u201d before engaging in a years-long dispute with him. The two publicly squashed their beef last year<\/a>.) The album is a hot mess of conflicted emotions, empty braggadocio, poor technique, and heartbreaking yet tiresome crying jags. Sometimes, it feels like being cornered on a bar stool with a guy who won\u2019t shut up about his divorces, his addictions, or the years he spent in lockup. Too often, Thug fails to transform his innate sadness and dogged ambition into compelling art and leaves the listener struggling to comprehend his spilled feelings. One can\u2019t help but think of Chrissie Hynde on The Pretenders\u2019 \u201cPrivate Life\u201d: Your private life drama, baby, leave me out.<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Yet \u201cMiss My Dogs,\u201d despite its seven-minute length, works on its own. It\u2019s a concise depiction of how Thug has been traumatized by spending years in prison on trumped-up RICO charges that the Fulton County prosecutor\u2019s office ultimately couldn\u2019t prove, leaving them to cut Thug loose and save face from one of the longest and most costly criminal trials in state history. In inhumanly pressurized situations like that, who can blame him for venting angrily about any and every person he knows? On the track, he tries to make amends to Drake (\u201cDrizzy, you my brother\u201d), and hopes Drake can reconcile with Metro Boomin and Future a.k.a. \u201cPluto,\u201d after last year\u2019s infamous \u201cLike That\u201d diss. He apologizes to Lil Baby a.k.a. \u201cWham,\u201d 21 Savage, and Gucci Mane. But the overall impression isn\u2019t of a rapper vainly trying to walk back the leaked calls that led fans to call him a \u201csnitch,\u201d<\/a> but of a 34-year-old Black man unsure of how to feel and think after being imprisoned at the height of his career. \u201cMade some mistakes, now the game tryna ban me,\u201d he raps.<\/p>\n If Young Thug was a more self-conscious artist, he would have recognized the power of \u201cMiss My Dogs,\u201d canceled the release of UY Scuti, and restructured his long-anticipated comeback so that it buttressed and extended its complexities. Alas, the beauty and folly of Young Thug is that he\u2019s wildly untethered by expectations of how he should sound and dress. When he emerged in the early 2010s with \u201cStoner\u201d and \u201cDanny Glover aka 2 Bitches,\u201d he spun croaked melodies with childlike whimsy as pure as Tom Hanks dancing on the oversized keyboard in Big. Alt-pop aesthetes were fascinated by his whirling dervish performance alongside Popcaan on Jamie xx\u2019s \u201cI Know There\u2019s Gonna Be (Good Times).\u201d<\/p>\n Young Thug is the purest exponent of mainstream rap\u2019s melodic rap era. He can\u2019t be bothered to constrain himself into ad-hoc concepts of heavily medicated pain and pleasure like Future, strive for emo-rock stardom like Lil Uzi Vert, or gesture towards Black consciousness like Lil Baby\u2019s \u201cThe Bigger Picture.\u201d He simply churns out tracks and collates them into bloated and messily conceived projects, some inspiring (2017\u2019s Beautiful Thugger Girls, 2019\u2019s So Much Fun) and others exhausting (the YSL Slime Language comps, 2023\u2019s Business Is Business), as well as too many studio leaks unleashed via message board accounts. Meanwhile, the regional-rap enthusiasts initially dazzled by early gems like 2014\u2019s Rich Gang project Tha Tour Part 1 and 2015\u2019s Barter 6 eventually fussed over the quality of his work. One can ask if the folks who once wildly overpraised Thug, only to turn on him when his sound grew into a pop staple, truly valued him as an artist or simply adored him as a shiny new plaything they could eventually cast aside. Young Thug is a human being, not an ATL action figure programmed to run the streets, buck at the opps, and get bitches to ride his dick, all while singing the blues.<\/p>\n Part of the frustration of UY Scuti is hearing him and his \u201ctwins\u201d crank out more product as if nothing ever happened, trying to pump fresh life into the same old tropes. \u201cHundred percent of the business going to the kids (heyyy)\/Mansions to the wifey, nigga\/Lifetime wigs (lifetime, baby!)\u201d he sings on \u201cRIP Big & Mack\u201d as he dreams of making \u201cbillions\u201d and \u201ctrillions.\u201d Guest T.I. expresses his disgust at how \u201cthe feds\u201d target rappers like Thug and himself: \u201cWe\u2019re shakin\u2019 it off and packin\u2019 it down, nigga. Fuck off!\u201d 21 Savage, Travis Scott, Lil Baby, Sexxy Red, Quavo, and Future also show up and pay homage. The 21-track collection is poorly sequenced, with halfway decent cuts (\u201cOn the News\u201d with Cardi B) carelessly paired with desultory rage-rap bait (\u201cYuck\u201d with Ken Carson). It\u2019s all packaged in a bizarre cover that inexplicably illuminates Thug\u2019s skin, so he looks pale and whitened. The artwork, Thug has said, is a comment on how Black artists need to bleach their skin and \u201cgo white\u201d<\/a> to be successful. Couple that with the opening track, \u201cNinja,\u201d where he decides to call his opps the hard-R N-word, then says the slur repeatedly. Ha ha?<\/p>\n Perhaps\u00a0UY Scuti\u00a0would be better if Thug realized what\u2019s at stake. Or maybe the problem is that he\u00a0knows\u00a0his A-list status is in question, but he\u2019s too broken by the experience of being incarcerated to properly address it. There are innumerable moments where Thug sounds as if he\u2019s sobbing. \u201cDo you know how it feels to see your face on the news,\u201d he sings mournfully on \u201cOn the News.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve been crying all day\/I seen my brother turn rat right in my face,\u201d he says on \u201cSad Spider,\u201d with Gunna as \u201cthe rat\u201d in question.\u00a0It\u2019s unfortunate that Young Thug\u00a0doesn\u2019t believe in professional therapy<\/a>\u00a0and relies on advice from family and friends instead. He surely needs it.<\/p>\n But as distressing as UY Scuti can be over its 75-minute runtime, it ends with two tracks that feel like saving graces. First, there\u2019s Mariah the Scientist warmly declaring her love for Thug on \u201cRarely Do Dreams Come True.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m thinking I\u2019m submissive when I\u2019m just succumbing,\u201d she sings. Then Thug responds in an echoing voice, as if he\u2019s lost in a daze, \u201cFuck my friends, fuck all my friends\u2026tell me if you love me right now.\u201d Then comes the finale in \u201cMiss My Dogs.\u201d Every human being deserves empathy and understanding, especially one as flawed and broken yet persevering as Young Thug.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two weeks before the arrival of UY Scuti, Young Thug\u2019s first release since he took a plea deal from state prosecutors for his involvement in the YSL racketeering case, he dropped \u201cMiss My Dogs.\u201d It\u2019s a meandering and wounded apology to the sundry friends and industry associates that he criticized during a series of leaked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2058297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[52409,383378,375110,326094],"class_list":["post-2058296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-lil-baby","tag-rich-gang","tag-uy-scuti","tag-young-thug"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Young-Thug-Spills-His-Heavy-Feelings-All-Over-a-Frustrating.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2058297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}