Key Takeaways:

• Young Thug says the UY SCUTI cowl was impressed by a long-running joke about going white to turn out to be the largest artist.
• He clarified that the visible was each playful and critical, referencing Michael Jackson’s pores and skin situation as context.
• UY SCUTI dropped final Friday (Sept. 26) with options from Cardi B, Ken Carson, Future, and extra.

Young Thug’s determination to painting himself as white on the cover of UY SCUTI was, to place it flippantly, intriguing. On Sunday (Sept. 28), through the “It’s Up There Podcast w/Looney,” the rapper shared the story behind the artistic determination.

“I think it was just some funny s**t, but it’s still like serious to the point where I went with it,” he stated. Thugger added that rising up, folks in his neighborhood “always joked and played” that if he needed to be the largest artist out, he’d basically must “go white.”

“That’s why when I put the album cover out, I said, ‘Aye, if you wanna be the biggest, go white,’” he defined. “We [were] just talking s**t ‘cause it’s so many big Black people. I’m one of them.” Young Thug then introduced up Michael Jackson for instance.

“Michael Jackson went white for this,” he stated, referencing the long-running pores and skin bleaching rumors surrounding the King of Pop, earlier than clarifying, “We know that’s not true.” For context, the late icon was identified with vitiligo, a pores and skin dysfunction that steadily stripped a lot of the pigment from his pores and skin.

Also on Sunday, Young Thug held a shock efficiency exterior Fulton County Courthouse. He introduced the pop-up live performance simply hours earlier than beginning his “Live From Atlanta” livestream at 4 p.m. ET.

The alternative of location made for fairly a press release. It was the very courthouse Thugger spent a lot time in whereas fighting his RICO case, now doubling as a stage to advertise his new album, UY SCUTI. He walked out to “RIP Big & Mack,” earlier than encouraging everybody to attempt to turn out to be attorneys and DAs as a substitute of ending up “on the defendant side.”

Young Thug then launched into a couple of different information on UY SCUTI, specifically “Whaddup Jesus,” “Blaming Jesus,” and “Catch Me I’m Falling.” From there, he handled the gang to older favorites like “Digits” and his Gunna collab “Ski.” Check it out beneath.