Before sending it out into the world, I showed my dear grandmother this site. I played excerpts of various Young Thug songs, and she was vibing with it way more than I expected! Her familiarity with Indian music allowed her to hear important musical qualities; particularly melody, contour, vocal inflexions, and to an extent repeating rhythmic patterns. This made it very easy to explain to her what I heard, how I went about the analysis, as well as the larger structure of the music.

Indian music consists of 'Ragas' (Melodic) and 'Talam' (Rhythmic).

Ragas are the "basic musical modes which express different moods in certain characteristic progressions, with more emphasis placed on some notes than others." What better way to describe Young Thug's vocal lines?

A Tala is a "regular, repeating rhythmic phrase, particularly as rendered on a percussive instrument with an ebb and flow of various intonations, intensities, or speeds." Pretty accurate descripion of beats by producers such as Metro Boomin, London, and Wheazy.

Moreover, if she had been able to understand the lyrics, she would have been appalled and worried for my life - she's very conservative, and the fact that I'm even listening to music like this would disturb her. Nevertheless, the phonological richness of his music was what she listened for and appreciated.

Thank you for going through this website. I hope you can now listen to Young Thug more closely, and more generally learned some useful things about music.