Young Thug apparently isn't satisfied with lightening his own skin and giving himself blue eyes, as he did on the cover to his new album UY SCUTI — now his collaborators are getting the same makeover.
In a post to Instagram on Friday (September 26), Thugger shared a carousel of photos of guests on the album, including T.I., Sexyy Red, Lil Baby, and Quavo, reimagined in the same style as the Atlanta rapper himself appears on the LP's cover. He captioned the post, "my new friends."
The only clue Thug has given thus far to his reasoning behind the photos comes in an Instagram post from Thursday (September 25), hours before the album's release.
"IF YOU WANNA BE THE BIGGEST….GO WHITE!!" he wrote. "UY SCUTI midnight."
See Thug, UY SCUTI version, below, and view his collaborators here.
UY SCUTI is out now. Make sure to visit Complex Shop, where you can pick up the latest from Thug in a variety of formats including vinyl, CD, and a number of boxed set options. Among the latter is a version featuring a What Would Brian Do tee, a nod to Thug’s attorney, Brian Steel.
Steel also represents Diddy, and thus was in New York on Thursday for a hearing where the mogul attempted to get his Mann Act convictions overturned or, failing that, to get a new trial. Among his team's arguments was that because he frequently filmed his freak offs, the sexual encounters involving his girlfriends and paid male escorts, he was therefore an amateur pornographer, and thus was entitled to First Amendment protections.