On Tuesday, rapper Young Thug celebrated the release of his new LP PUNK in Hollywood with his crew. The album came out Friday, and Young Thug performed at Saturday Night Live the same weekend, but nothing can top his Tuesday celebration, where he destroyed a brand new Rolls Royce with all his friends, including Gunna and Metro Booming.
The car was spray-painted with the album’s title and some baseball bats got handed out. Chaos ensued:
Responses to the stunt are mixed, with half the people saying that this is wasteful and the money going into it should have been donated to charity. The other half is telling the first half to go make their own money if they want to donate it and that’s why we will never have unified class consciousness.
Admittedly, it does look fun to smash up a car while everyone is drinking, smoking, and yelling in the street, so who can blame them for having a good time. But it could really have been any car! Thug has already previewed four tracks off of the upcoming record, including “Die Slow,” “Droppin Jewels,” “Hate the Game,” and “Tick Tock.” There’s a music video for the last song on that list, also featuring a really fancy car: