Mixtape Review: Chris Brown & Young Thug - 'Slime & B'

Chris Brown and Young Thug have become the tag team that will blend both Trap & RNB together on their highly anticipated and unexpected mixtape “Slime & B”. Their 12 track tape has been released on Chris Brown's 31st birthday and it has not been one to miss!

Slime & B opens quite strongly as a project with tracks such as “Go Crazy” where we hear Chris Brown's melodic ballads over this track tied in with Thug’s trap flow in a song that sounds like a potential radio hit. “Trap Back” delivers a catchy hook with feature Major Nine, along with Young Thug who rides the beat early despite some of the tracks not sounding like his usual trap production that he is used to. 

Once you dive into a few songs on the project the tracks do come across as Chris Brown songs with Young Thug as the feature. The first few tracks are definitely dominated by Chris with his trademark catchy hooks and club type music, but it isn’t till we hear the track “Big Slimes” that Young Thug really shows what he can do with the contribution of Gunna and Lil Duke behind him. Once the project starts warming up, we really do witness how versatile Thug is as an artist and that he can be thrown anything his way and mould over it.

“Slime & B” really starts hitting harder as it climbs into the second half of the project. Tracks such as “Animals” and “City Girls” are standouts on the album with Chris Brown delivering melodies just as great as he would ten years ago and Young Thug doesn’t let himself be overshadowed at all as he matched Brown bar for bar. The second half of the album really stands out strong and it is definitely worth hanging around for.

When you view the project as a whole, it is hard to not see this project as a Chris Brown project with a lot of Thug features, but Thug really stands his own throughout this project. If you couldn’t see or respect the versatility that Thug has as an artist, you will after this project. “Slime & B “ was a big surprise and if this is just a warm-up for both Young Thugs and Chris Brown's new separate projects, then you can expect very big things from both artists' work in the future.

Reviewed by: Aidan Treston