Atlanta rap has gone to delightfully weird places in the last few years, and Young Thug has emerged as its head weirdo in charge — a wiry ball of high-pitched intonations, vaguely alien syntax decisions, and barely-human yelps. While Black Portland isn’t a Thug solo project, it’s still the strongest and purest full-length document of his hallucinatory aesthetic. On the mixtape, Thug and his almost-as-bugged-out partner Bloody Jay push each other to full haywire status, crooning about blood in their eye and emitting sudden bursts of concentrated double-time virtuosity over beats that gleam bright and thump hard. They don’t give no fucks. –Tom [LISTEN]