Young Thug Discusses Drake’s & Lil Wayne’s Songwriting

As we already reported, Young Thug appeared on the latest cover of Dazed rocking a Gucci dress. His questionable fashion choices for the photo shoot aside, the rapper also gave an interview for the magazine.


In his conversation with the outlet, Thug reflected on his songwriting and claimed he feels like he can write a “perfect song” in 10 minutes. Thugger also elaborated on Lil Wayne’s and Drake’s songwriting, pointing out that it takes both of them much longer to do a song.

I think as I go,” he says. “I can’t remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can’t. I just do it bar for bar. I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don’t. [Lil Wayne] and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes. I did ‘Danny Glover' in eight minutes. ‘Stoner’ took me almost an hour.”