Perhaps the most important question in rap music—if not all of America—so far this year has been this: Why did YoungThug and BloodyJay call their new mixtape Black Portland? Today, Naomi Zeichner of The FADERgot the answer from Jay himself:
“We’re on fire right now in the streets of Atlanta, and we’re stoners, so you know, we’re the Blazers and Atlanta is Black Portland."
In framing themselves as Atlanta's version of another culture, Black Portland in a way recalls the imagery of 1017 Brick Squad, be it in OJDaJuiceman's Alaska in Atlanta or GucciMane's Cold War series. In that sense, it's perhaps no shock that Thugger's first big signal boost came from Gucci himself.
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