Young Thug's sexuality has been a point of discussion since he cracked the national scene in 2013. While much of that "discussion" has been limited to homophobic comments on social media, there have been those genuinely interested in how Thug seems to toy with the idea of masculinity in hip-hop. In a new piece for The Guardian--which probably goes a half-step too far in calling Thug "gender-fluid"--the Atlanta wunderkind makes it clear he doesn't sweat the issue. “I like everything that people say,” Thug says. “No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girlfriend, you’re ugly, you can’t rap, you’re the hardest.”

Perhaps more interestingly, the "Danny Glover" star says that monogamy has helped his famously prolific career. “I mean, we still [make music] the same way, but it’s less gangster, you know what I’m saying?" he asks. "More white motherfuckers and important motherfuckers. There’s less gangsters, less drugs. I have a girlfriend now, so no girls. I think all of those things make me more of an artist, though. If I didn’t have a girlfriend, I’d have 10 girls at the studio and they would make me not rap. I’d be chilling and getting stoned. It’s like, boom! – I’ve got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.” Thug's most recent mixtape, Slime Season, is available now; his retail debut is expected via 300 sometime later this year or early in 2016.

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