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• Tune Talk: Young Thug “Slime Language 3” album review | The Optimist
On August 27th, Young Thug and Young Stoner Life (YSL, Thugs label) announced that “Slime Language 3” would be dropping at midnight. This came as a surprise as there was no talk of “Slime Language 3” before this announcement. The album ended up releasing late, on August 28th around 6 p.m.   “Slime Language 3”...

• Tune Talk: Ken Carson “cartunez” album review | The Optimist
After teasing the EP (Extended Play) for months, following the summer drop of the album “xperiment,” Opium’s Ken Carson dropped “cartunez” on August 27th to the shock of fans.    The 13 song EP has three features: the underground rager Osamason, YVL’s (Young Vamp Life, another one of Playboi Carti’s labels) ApolloRed1, and Opium-prodigy Destroy...