![]() ![]() ![]() The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Then it would be meaningless.Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Thug couldn’t speak the way he does if it didn’t correspond with someone’s experience. 20th century thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said that a private language is impossible because it requires acceptance from another party. The best I can discern is that they all follow a set of mutually accepted rules. Trying to find a commonality among all games, the trait that unites Settlers of Catan with a simple game of “tag,” is difficult. Young Thug and his speech is a further step down the infinite rabbit hole of language possibilities. ‘Boujee’ and ‘lit’ becoming pop culture terms proves this. Hip-hop as a whole is a mini-game to the metagame of language. We get the pleasure of seeing how it evolves and affects the larger games within which it’s embedded. It might feel commonplace in rap today, but we’re still in the infancy stages of this “vocal manipulation” language game. Remembering that his songs are layered with plug-ins and effects further complicate matters, allowing frequent engineer Alex Tumay to emphasize delivery and convey emotion in ways we didn’t think possible 30 years ago. You’ll hopefully be less dry and use more facial expressions to get the point across to your child. You wouldn’t give your doctoral defense in the same tone you address your two-year-old. We frequently change language games too, depending on the context. Restricting myself to Thugger’s hits, since one could write a dictionary from the wealth of “trench” terms he uses in his deep cuts, we see him operating under different parameters on his breakout hit, “Stoner.” As he drowsily compares himself to Fabo, only those playing the “Southern rap language game” will understand the degree to which he’s embellishing his drug habits. Google has more credibility on the block than I ever will.) (On a side note, spell check didn’t try to correct me on that word. About Young Thug Thief in the Night feat Trouble Mp3: Young Thug Releases new visual for Theif in the Night coming off of the latest Slime Season 2 mixtape. “ Me and my woadie won’t get caught up like that no way” doesn’t fall on ignorant ears across the seventeen wards of New Orleans. Needless to say, my initial assumption that it was a slurred reference to touring “roadies” was off the mark. Though I’d been familiar with this term before I heard “Lifestyle,” I needed guidance the first time ‘woadie’ graced my ears. Like any responsible music nerd, I refer to peer-reviewed lyric sites to fill in the gaps of my knowledge. Taking the horse-shaped piece from a chess set and trying to use it in a game of Yahtzee would get you some puzzling looks because it’s meaningless apart from its black-and-white home. Both of those pieces only mean something when used in their capacity as elements of those games. You don’t need to appeal to something outside of its parameters to explain it and words only have meaning in the context of that particular “game.” For example, think about a knight on a chessboard or a die in a game of Yahtzee. Linguists, philologists and philosophers of language have used the term to describe the way language is self-contained. What does it mean to say that “language is a game”? My use of the word ‘game’ isn’t accidental or novel. Perspective can be skewed if you’re too close to what you’re observing. You almost need the micro examples to understand the macro game you’re playing. In similar fashion, the way Thug expresses himself is analogous to our larger system of language, one in which we’re so deeply embedded it’s hard to see. Many ancient minds claimed the individual was a micro representation of the greater cosmos (“Man is a microcosm of the universe”). What I see over the course of Thug’s career is an illustration of the game we play with each other every time we communicate, but in a rarefied form. ![]()
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