Beautiful Thugger Girls

Young Thug's genre-blending "singing album" that crossed R&B, dancehall, and country.

Beautiful Thugger Girls is the fifth commercial mixtape by American rapper Young Thug. It was released on June 16, 2017, by 300 Entertainment and Atlantic Records. The mixtape features guest appearances from Millie Go Lightly, Gunna, Future, Quavo, Snoop Dogg, Lil Durk, and Jacquees. Described by Young Thug as a "singing album", Beautiful Thugger Girls features crossovers with multiple musical genres such as R&B, dancehall and country. The mixtape received widespread acclaim from music critics, debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200, and at number four on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

Quick Facts

Artist: Young Thug
Released: 16 June 2017
Genre: Hip-hop; pop
Label: 300; Atlantic

Lore & Background

On April 26, 2017, Young Thug originally announced that the project would be titled E.B.B.T.G., an abbreviation for Easy Breezy Beautiful Thugger Girls, which was a play on "easy, breezy, beautiful CoverGirl" as the slogan for CoverGirl. After several delays, the release date was hinted a week before release and officially confirmed two days before release. Although it has been referred to as an album by Young Thug, 300 Entertainment have reported it as a commercial mixtape. The mixtape was met with widespread critical acclaim, scoring an 84 out of 100 on Metacritic based on eight reviews. Paul Thompson of Pitchfork called it Young Thug's "most compelling experiment in pop," comparing it to Lil Wayne's Rebirth. The A.V. Club's Renatio Pagnani noted that "few artists manage to balance wide-eyed eroticism with genuine warmth." The mixtape debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200 with 37,000 album-equivalent units, of which 7,000 were pure album sales. On December 6, 2019, it was certified gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 units in the United States.

Reader's Guide

For fans tracking Young Thug's evolution, Beautiful Thugger Girls represents a deliberate pivot toward melody and genre fusion. The mixtape's title was a play on the CoverGirl slogan, and its sound deliberately mixed R&B crooning, dancehall rhythms, and country guitar work. Scott Glaysher of XXL said "Thug sounds the best he's ever sounded, despite some of the songs being fairly far removed from his proverbial comfort zone." The mixtape's commercial performance was solid: 37,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, with 7,000 pure sales, landing at number eight on the Billboard 200 and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The RIAA gold certification came on December 6, 2019. Critics were divided on the execution: Tiny Mix Tapes's Corrigan B found it "remarkable because of its Thugger-ness" but noted that "his pure lyricism... has begun to detract from the project as a whole." 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."

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1	Family Don't Matter (featuring Millie Go Lightly)	Jeffery Williams, Melissa Sarah Griffiths, Masamune Kudo, Wesley Glass	4:55
2	Tomorrow Til Infinity (featuring Gunna)	Williams, Sergio Kitchens, Kudo, Benjamin Diehl	3:48
3	She Wanna Party (featuring Millie Go Lightly)	Williams, Griffiths, Kudo, Ryan Vojtesak	4:10
4	Daddy's Birthday	Williams, London Holmes, Scott Storch	3:28
5	Do U Love Me	Williams, Holmes	3:29
6	Relationship (featuring Future)	Williams, Nayvadius Wilburn, Eduardo Burgess, Jonathan De La Rosa, Tariq Sharrieff	3:35
7	You Said (featuring Quavo)	Williams, Quavious Marshall, Glass, Zhonzell Watson	6:42
8	On Fire	Williams, Glass, Vojtesak	3:59
9	Get High (featuring Snoop Dogg and Lil Durk)	Williams, Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., Durk Banks, Tyree Pittman	4:53
10	Feel It	Williams, Glass	3:56
11	Me or Us	Williams, Kudo, Vojtesak, Conor Oberst	2:37
12	Oh Yeah	Williams, Glass	3:49
13	For Y'all (featuring Jacquees)	Williams, Burgess	3:39
14	Take Care	Williams, Paul Judge, James Brown	3:37
Total length			56:37

Did You Know?

The vinyl version of "Me or Us" features a guest appearance by Travis Scott, which is not on the standard digital release.
"Take Care" samples James Brown's classic "I Got You (I Feel Good)."
Drake is listed as executive producer on the project, according to Exclaim!'s review.