Twenty-five seconds into his new album Beautiful Thugger Girls, Young Thug lets it go. He's been singing over a faraway whistle and a lightly strummed acoustic guitar, and he's been using a sort of marblemouthed Foghorn Leghorn mock-drawl. And then, exploding out of nowhere: "Yee-haw!" It's a perfectly silly moment in what's otherwise -- by Young Thug's standards, at least -- a serious and heartfelt song. And the moment it hit, the memes started flying. Kurt Angle in a cowboy hat. Daffy Duck in a cowboy hat. Titus from The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt in a cowboy hat. The idea was that Young Thug had once again broken the mold by making a country music album, and that, as a result, we are all cowboys. Well, Young Thug has not made a country music album, and we are not all cowboys now. That's one of the funniest things about Thug: He is a perfectly meme-friendly artist, and yet the things he does are too complicated to be summed up in a meme. But whatever Thug is now, the rest of us would to well to try becoming that.
