It’s ironic that a rapper named Young Thug—an almost comically unimaginative alias that on its face evokes the laziest stereotypes about rappers and their glorified street mentality, reveling in a heartless world of wanton violence and not much else—would actually be the current hip-hop artist most dedicated to to the ideals of romantic love and affection. The most prolific, anarchic, and innovative rapper doing it has both a mouth (though he did buy a new set of pearly whites recently) and a heart of gold.
Of course, that’s all still filtered through the looking-through-a-kaleidoscope-on-acid-while-riding-a-rollercoaster vision of Young Thug, so his manifestations of treacly sweetness are still plenty surreal. Case in point is “Worth It,” off Thugger’s newest, uniformly excellent tape, Slime Season 3. Released on Valentine’s Day (see, told you he was a sweetie!), the video depicts him and his real-life fiancé lovingly doting on each other:
Just look at how delicately Thug—dressed like a hip-hop Clint Eastwood circa A Fistful of Dollars with his poncho and hat, replacing the traditional gun hanging off his hip with a plush panda doll—twirls Jerrika as they sway in the park:
And the way they wrestle around beneath the sheets:
And how playful they are, joking around in their apartment, splattering paint on each other before drawing a big heart with their names inside it:
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