Rating: 5/10

Young Thug is back with his new feature length album, ‘So Much Fun’ after 2018’s ‘On the Rvn‘ EP. The project has a variety of features from his peers and label mates as well as some great production and lyrics, but ultimately for a project consisting of 19 songs lasting over 62 minutes, many tracks are forgettable and cover the same braggadocios lyrics.

Young Thug isn’t known for his lyrical expertise, if anything a highlight of his music is often the off-the-wall lyrics that match his eccentric public image. The LP ‘So Much Fun‘ follows suit, with the stand out bizarre bars on my listens being, “put my diamonds in a bowl, that look like fruity pebbles“, “all I ever do is buy, I bought her beans” and my personal favourite: “I’m Teletubby, diamonds green, blue, white and grape.”

Despite the comedic charm of some of these raps, a lot of the songs are just Young Thug finding different ways to brag about how rich he is and his extravagant lifestyle. This is fine on a shorter project, but on a 19 track album, it gets boring when the songs, ‘Bad Bad Bad‘, ‘Lil Baby‘, ‘I Bought Her‘ and ‘Cartier Gucci Scarf‘ all have interchangeable grandiose lyrical content, especially when Young Thug is definitely capable of more.

One of the album’s highlights is the track ‘The London‘ featuring guest appearances from J. Cole and Travis Scott. It annoyed me that this was my highlight from the album, cause Young Thug barely impacted the song. J. Cole and Travis Scott both dominated; with Scott on the chorus, and Cole’s first verse taking up most of the three minute song. When Young Thug’s verse finally comes in, it is one of his best on the project, but given this is the final track on the project, it’s more demonstrates what could’ve been with the album.

Another highlight on the album come from the Lil Uzi Vert featuring track, ‘What’s The Move‘ which is another album which has a really great, catchy, summery and bubbly beat. The album’s second track, ‘Sup Mate‘ features Future and it honestly puzzles me, as Future and Thug go back and forth over a trap beat doing British impressions at times? It’s kind of funny, but on a 19 track album, you’d expect this to be a later throwaway song, not the second thing that listeners hear.

I was disappointed with this project on the whole. Young Thug isn’t to everybody’s taste, but he’s also released a lot of music in the past that has pushed boundaries and gone a bit deeper lyrically than this project has. There are definitely okay songs on the album, but given it’s over an hour in length, it’s a shame he’s not given us more highlights with this album.