As he nears the end of his twenties, Thug seems more like an adult member of Gen Z than a rap elder. The kid wouldn’t be the first or even the 10,000th miniature Young Thug out there.
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The lender’s progeny sports blond dreads - shorter than Thug’s, perhaps thanks to the deficit of years he’s had to grow them - plus skinny jeans, a gray hoodie, and a red-and-white trucker hat, his hair similarly tucked. I don’t.) He introduces Thug to his son, a 13-year-old aspiring rapper, and it’s like something out of a movie: Being John Malkovich, but about Young Thug. (We talk briefly about whether or not I have plans to buy a home. The lender on the deal is a handsome and well-kept man with the look of someone you might see on the cover of a Black entrepreneurs’ magazine. The small, celebratory function is replete with catering, which star-struck guests peck at and nibble on. He couldn’t be further from all of that now. How, as the title to his first mixtape puts it, he came from nothing. How violence and poverty engulfed his adolescence. Thug has often spoken in broad strokes about his childhood: How he grew up in Atlanta public housing. It could also be the thick sense of joy in the air. Scientists believe babies’ brains are in a constant state of psychedelic wonder, which might explain how naturally the two seem to communicate. Inside, Thug greets a pint-size nephew like a peer.
An impossibly large purple stone sat atop a pinky ring on his right hand, which might as well have been superglued to the Styrofoam cup that never seemed too far from his grasp. Thug, who is known to love extravagant jewelry, also wore a custom Audemars Piguet Royal Oak watch on his wrist and had several diamond chains guarding his chest. His dreadlocks were a vibrant blond (he’ll dye them pink a few weeks later) and draped neatly beneath his hat. He dressed casually, in a silk work shirt, slim blue trousers, and a forest-green snapback from the streetwear emporium Concepts. Jewelry by Rafaello & Co.Įarlier that afternoon, Thug arrived at the real estate closing with a handful of his family members. Set design by Bette Adams for MHS Artists. Photograph by Jackie Nickerson for Rolling Stone. “When you come from where we come from - when you make it, it’s all about extravagance,” says the 29-year-old rap star. Now, he’s decided to go a step further, purchasing a sprawling property about an hour outside of Atlanta. A few years later, on his 26th birthday, he gifted her $50,000 in cash.
He tells me one of the first things he did when he became famous was buy her a car. Known to friends and family as Big Duck, she raised 11 kids, mostly on her own Thug, born Jeffery Lamar Williams, was number 10. The house in question is a birthday present for Thug’s mother. A gift exchange helps break up the monotony. Buying property is a complicated dance: Sign here, double-sign there, transfer oodles of money here. We’re inside a lounge on the fifth floor of a luxurious building in downtown Atlanta, where the team of realtors that just sold Thug a house have presented him with the lavish garment as a gesture of gratitude. Young Thug stands swaddled in a blue Versace bathrobe.
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