Before Young Thug announced to the world that he would be running for president of the United
States of America with Gunna on the ballot as his Vp
Before Thugger would meet J. Cole and Travis Scott at the London for the highest charting
single of his career as the leading artist
Before he would get co-signs from a diverse group of musical talents from Andre 3000 to
Kanye West, and even Elton John
Before Young Thug would change his name to Jeffrey and then change his name to SEX before
changing it back to Young Thug
Before Young Thug announced that he was taking a year off of music in honor of his deaf brother
before releasing “Slime Language” later that year.
The guy is hard to keep up with.
And before he would have more than 3.6 million followers on Twitter, more than 775k followers
on Instagram and over 3.6 million subscribers on YouTube
Young Thug has become an icon.
Not just in music but in fashion.
And no matter how you feel about the guy, one thing you can’t deny is that he’s
never been afraid to be himself.
There’s no denying his impact, I mean even hip hop’s newest Superstar Lil Nas
X admitted that Thug is the real inventor of country Trap:
And based on his recent tweets, it looks like we could still get the remix to Old Town Road.
I don’t personally think it’s too late.
Thugger came up in Atlanta from a large family and spent 4 years in a youth detention center
where he mastered his flow.
But shortly after he had a baby on the way and no money.
So how did he make it from struggling to pay for a meal to the top of the charts?
Well, you clicked on the right video.
What’s going on good people in the comment section?
My name is Jeremy Hecht, I hope you’re having one Hecht of a Day and today I’ll be taking
you through the life and career of the one and only Young Thug.
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But before we start I’ve got a question for you:
“What is the most amount of money Young Thug has lost Gambling?”
Stick around until the end for the answer!
Now let’s get into it:
Jeffery Lamar Williams was born on August 16, 1991 in Atlanta, located in Zone 3.
Other famous alumni from the neighborhood include Waka Flocka, 2 Chainz and Ludacris.
And while the company in the alumni chapter might be good, the circumstances were very
difficult for young Jefferey growing up in Section 8 housing as the 10th of 11 siblings.
And while his mother had multiple baby daddy’s, Jeff’s dad named Big Jeff was always there
to take care
of him.
He later moved to Jonesboro, Atlanta where the circumstances were no better.
And if struggling to make ends meet wasn’t hard enough, his mother was dealing with heart
problems and Thug witnessed one of his older brothers die right in front of him.
He also saw another one of his brothers go to jail for murder.
These are the circumstances that raised Thug and molded his perception of the world.
This was taking a tole on him and Thugger wasn’t the best of students, often getting
into fights with the other kids.
A weird fact about Thug is that he rarely ate real food.
This could of course have been due to lack of money, but its rumored that he continues
to eat nothing but gummy worms and Funyons on a daily basis.
Thug always had a love for women’s clothes.
But at first, it wasn’t just a fashion thing.
He was tall and skinny and found that women’s Skinny jeans fit him better than men’s.
But with his dad refusing to buy him a pair of skinny legged pants, he had to find his
own way to cop the new fit.
He turned to robbing people for money and even robbed 5 grand from a nail salon.
But rather than buy a new outfit, he gambled it all away on a game of dice…
Also, I hope he’s repaid that nail salon now that he has millions!
Thugger was placed in Juvenile detention for 4 years because he broke his teacher’s arm.
I wonder what the Teacher did to deserve that, but must have been pretty bad.
Instead of middle school, he spent his time from 7am to 6pm in the correctional facility.
It was in Juvey that he worked on his musical abilities.
He would practice his flow daily and by the time he was set to get out, he could really
rap.
After he got out, he continued to live recklessly, but this time, it resulted in his first child
when he was just 17.
In 2010 he started recording his music and dropped the mixtape “I Came From Nothing.”
Although if you listen back, this was an Autotuneless Thug that sounded more like Lil Wayne than
T-Pain.
And his flows and punchlines were much more audible and understandable.
This was no mumble rap.
But that same star quality that keeps Thug interesting to watch today, existed back then,
and his friend Peewee Longway got him in a room with Gucci Mane.
They were all hanging out and when Gucci threw on some beats, Thug started rapping and kept
flowing and Gucci was impressed.
Gucci was a prolific recorder known for recording an abundance of tracks every night, and Thug
was the same way.
So Gucci was impressed.
Gucci went to jail shortly after the two met though, so Thugger looked after his studio
for him.
In that time period, he recorded what he says was around 5 thousand songs and released the
next two mixtapes in the “I Came From Nothing” Series.
When he says 5k songs were recorded, that honestly seems realistic for Thug.
When Gucci came home, or the cloned version of Gucci at least, we’re still not sure,
he signed Thug to a deal with 1017 records.
Although Gucci tells the story differently.
He told XXL that he signed Thug without ever hearing his music, stating:
“Pewee is like 'Gucci listen, they hard.
They're the ones who got me to start rapping.
Sign them!'”
“I had a bag with some money and got $25,000 out and I signed Thug right there.”
“Never even heard a song from him.
I value Peewee's opinion so much.”
Thugger also inked a deal with Lyor Cohen’s former label 300 and began to be managed by
Birdman.
Thug began to blow up with his 2013 songs “Stoner” and “Danny Glover” and from
there, he’s never looked back.
He was a part of the dynamic Richgang group with his former friend turned foe Rich Homie
Quan and their song “Lifestyle” became a massive smash in 2014.
He followed that up with songs like “Best Friend” in 2015, which is one of my personal
favorite Young Thug songs.
And videos.
He also got into a little spat with his former inspiration Lil Wayne after dropping an album
called “Barter 6” right around the time that Wayne was having label trouble releasing
his album “Carter 5.”
But despite the drama, Thug has continued to put out consistently dope music.
From his Slime Season series to singles like “Pick Up The Phone” with Travis Scott
and Quavo, Thug has always kept his name in the conversation.
In terms of his family, Thug has 6 children so it’s looking like he’s going to have
a big family of his own.
And most recently he looks like he’s ready to have a great summer with his girl
Since then we have seen a few different Young Thug rebrands including the “my name is
Jeffrey” campaign and his attempt to change his name to SEX.
But inevitably, it always comes back to Thugger, and I’m excited to see what he does next.
I feel like he’s finally about to reach the level that he’s been hoping to get to.
J. Cole recently continued his run of giving song dominating features when he contributed
a verse to Thug’s song “The London” making it Thug’s highest charting single
as a lead artist.
Plus he just got on Post Malone’s newest single and knowing how Posty performs on the
charts, I have a feeling he’ll have himself a number one single as a featured artist.
So will we see another name change?
Will we see a switch in his sound?
Will see see more game changing fashion statements?
I have a feeling that the answer is yes to all of the above, but I guess we’ll have
to wait and see because this, is Before They Were Famous.
I do know that Thug has no problem with taking risks though because apparently He lost 100
thousand dollars gambling with LeBron James.
We still don’t know exactly how that happened but there you have the answer to your question
from the beginning of the year.
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