Thinking Out Loud

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As Young Dolph began to rack up more underground hits in the late 2010, his name also began to appear regularly in the tabloid. Half a year after surviving a shooting in Charlotte—the inspiration for the title of his second album, <i>Bulletproof</i>, and its defiant opener “100 Shots”—the Memphis rapper sustained multiple gunshot wounds in an attack outside a Hollywood store. After several weeks of rehabilitation, he emerged from the hospital determined, immediately announcing new music. His third studio album, <i>Thinking Out Loud</i>, dropped the next month, characterized by an off-the-cuff energy that mirrored its title and quick rollout. Like Dolph’s other projects of this time, <i>Thinking Out Loud</i> is a concise master class in his brand of effortless cool. Its slow-burning trap anthems shift thematic focus from couplet to couplet, ultimately providing a detailed composite picture of the rapper’s autobiography, street bona fide, net worth, romantic exploit, and more. Punctuated by doomsday bells in the percussion track, his infectious cadence on “Believe Me” accommodates lines about everything from his collection of cars to his troubled upbringing to his commitment to staying independent: “She call all my cars spaceships/I work the trap in the day shift/A crack baby worth 10 mil’/Still turnin' down record deal.” .

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