With Duke’s grounded feature, Ricky Racks’ skeletal beat, and Thug’s shape-shifting delivery, “With That” remains a foundational text of 2010s trap music and a lasting reminder of why Young Thug, at his peak, was rap’s most unpredictable force.
9/10 Essential for fans of: Playboi Carti, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Gunna, Travis Scott. Young Thug - With That ft. Duke
The hook is deceptively simple: “These niggas can’t hang with that / Your bitch, she can’t hang with that / That watch, it can’t hang with that” It’s a taunt. Thug claims an intangible level of swag, wealth, and danger that others simply cannot match. Thug claims an intangible level of swag, wealth,
Thug delivers one of his most quoted early bars: “I fucked her, she say ‘What’s your name?’ I say ‘Slatt, slatt’” (Slatt = Slime Love All the Time, a YSL acronym) He weaves between luxury (Gucci flip-flops, a Richard Mille watch) and violence (“Turn that boy head to a Pez dispenser”). His flow is shape-shifting—crooning one second, staccato the next. Here’s a full feature on , a standout
Here’s a full feature on , a standout track from his 2015 mixtape Barter 6 . Young Thug – “With That” ft. Duke: The Birth of a Slime Anthem Release Date: April 17, 2015 Album: Barter 6 Producers: Ricky Racks, Wheezy (uncredited co-production) Label: 300 Entertainment, Atlantic Records 1. Context & Significance “With That” arrives at a pivotal moment in Young Thug’s career. Following the leak and shelving of his HiTunes project and his very public falling out with Bloody Jay and RHQ, Thugger needed a reset. Barter 6 —named in playful (and contentious) reference to Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter series—was his commercial and artistic reclamation.