“Slime Season” 1,2, and 3 are only seperated by a six-month time span. Young Thug came with the first installment in September, second in November, and now the third installment in March. In between Slime Season 2 and 3, Thugger released his nine-track project I’m Up. In comparison to past Slime Season releases, Thug has cut the track-list in half. Slime Season 2 came equipped with 22 tracks and the first came with 18 tracks. The third installment is cohesively-slimmed to eight songs. Perhaps I’m Up played a factor into it. Nonetheless, the slimmed-down tracklist worked out.

Lyrically, Thug doesn’t do anything out of the ordinary that we don’t expect from him. Always boasting with an unfamiliar confidence, he flaunted it the most on the first track, “With Them.” It’s a song that was first premiered during Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 3 event and left listeners excited for what Thug was planning on future releases. On March 24, Thug released a new single titled “Digits.” Produced by London On Da Track, we received a glance of relativity from topic. The production can be compared to London’s “Power” production, but it has now become a signature in London’s repertoire Taking the theme of living life to the fullest, he provided a well thought-out chorus.

N***a, hustlers don’t stop, they keep goin’
You can lose your life but it gon’ keep goin’
Why not risk life when it’s gon’ keep goin’?
When you die somebody else was born
But at least we got to say we…

Being able to run up a check and spend his money the way he pleases is what we’ve seen Thug do.

The rest of the project moves in the direction we expect, not bringing much of a change from Rich Gang The Tour Pt. 1 to now. However, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If it isn’t broke, why fix it? From ad-libs, flow, topics of choice, Thug doesn’t have to change much with his direction. 

London On Da Track has been Thug’s go-to producer for quite some time now. Who can deny the love received for their Birman and Rich Homie Quan collaboration (Rich Gang) on Lifestyle? London produced a total of four tracks out of the eight. Mike WiLL Made It produced the opening track, “With Them.” This is not the first time the two have collaborated, as you may have heard “California Rari,” Pacifier” and “Throw Sum Mo.” Ricky Racks has seen heightened-success with his production on Thug’s beloved “Bestfriend” track, which appeared on the previous Slime Season. Allen Ritter has emerged as an elite producer over the last year, also producing material for Travi$ Scott.

Previously working with all of the producers in the past, the chemistry was not that hard to form, we can assume. The only variation is the absence of Metro Boomin and 808 Mafia, who can be found on pretty much Thug’s entire catalog of work.

The project only has one feature in Yak Gotti (YSL), for the Allen Ritter-produced song “Slime S**t.”

Cohesively-forming this body of work into eight tracks, gives Young Thug the ultimate victory. With so much music hitting us daily, we don’t feel overwhelmed by Thug’s project. He sticks to producers he’s worked with in the past and doesn’t change the direction he has held many times before.

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