♫♪  Young Thug - “Hercules”

“METRO!” Best New Tag (though there was a tense sort of exhilaration in hearing Young Thug take on Future’s “Young Metro” x 3). See, I fell asleep to Thugger’s Herculean “yah! yah! yah! yah!” ringing in my ears, but with trouble in my heart over his misunderstanding with billion-karat producer/ex-best friend Metro Boomin re: Future’s anti-drought strategy. I awoke with my mind right after learning that that battle is over. Now I can listen to “Hercules” in peace, and let the song’s rumble-hiss storm wash over me, feel the Makonnenian drawl of Thugger’s lower register light up my listening life. It’s a new melody in a year hypersaturated with his flow, or if I’ve heard this voice before but don’t remember, blame it on the Hercules (“STRONG MARIJUANA!”). Pretty rude for this song to drop while I’m in a resinous ruin. For now, Young Thug himself will do the trick of making me forget the sky isn’t on my shoulders.

Befitting a song named after the god of oracles, I feel He has seen a high tide coming for all of us (in 2016? oracles are tricky). As we await the presumably full-length forthcoming glory of the Metro Thuggin collaboration and the ATL rapper’s much-H¥P3D Hi-Tunes, we at least have 2015 hi-lights Barter 6, Slime Seasons 1 and 2 to tide us over. Sheesh!

Listen to the divine hero carving himself out of marble, each fleck a masterpiece, none too similar.

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