Young Thug had an interesting response when asked to name his gay anthem on the 2025 GQ Men of The Year Awards red carpet last week.
Before giving his answer, Thug asked Ludwig Hurtado for Them for clarification regarding what "gay anthem" meant. "Just a song that you're, like, you know what, the gays kinda ate with this one," Hurtado responded.
After some consideration, Thug said, "Maybe 'Ninjas.' It's called 'Ninjas,' and it's by this gay rapper named Young Thug."
Thug was almost certainly trolling while also promoting his UY Scuti opener "Ninja," which he performed at ComplexCon 2025 last month.
Prior to hitting the ComplexCon stage in Las Vegas, Thug appeared on a livestream with Adin Ross where he shared plans to warn the white people in the crowd about reciting the lyrics, which features the N-word several times.
"If I look at one of you motherfucking white people in this crowd, if any of y'all saying that, I'm leaving. I'm telling you," he said. "If any one of you motherfuckers say the N-word and you are white hard, I'm leaving. If you say N-I-G-G, you can't say 'nigg.'"
When TMZ caught up with Thug outside the GQ Men of the Year 2025 party, the artist confirmed he and Mariah the Scientist are still "going strong," and joked that he "just put a baby in her."