"No wonder it sounds so bad" — Internet reacts to Young Thug credited as mixing engineer on Lil Baby's new album

On Sunday, January 5, an X user named @ThuggerDaily uploaded a tweet in which Jeffrey Williams - Young Thug's original name - was mentioned as a mixing engineer in Lil Baby's latest album, WHAM.

The tweet has since gone viral, receiving more than 311K views, 7K likes, and 330 retweets. Netizens have reacted to it, with one of them writing:

"no wonder it sounds so bad, he needed Tumay"

Some netizens spoke in favor of Young Thug, claiming that the Stoner rapper had only mixed the track he was featured on - Dumb, Dumb, and Dumber - in the album. Others requested that he work on Gunna's next project as well.

"I promise you if thug really did serious mixing this album wouldn’t sound this bad. He probably mixed the song he was on only because that’s the only song mixed perfectly." - commented an X user.

"Please be a mixing engineer for Gunna next project" - added a second one.

"DJ Kalid 11 month old baby once executive produced a reggae music album, anything is possible as long the check clears." - wrote a third user.

Meanwhile, some netizens claimed that Lil Baby was trying to ride Thug's wave to make his album perform better.

"well it’s not mixed well so lock in thug" - replied a fourth one.

"Lmao. they trying so hard to ride thugs wave to reach baby to the top put in reality people don’t care lol the gimmicks won’t work we wanna hear great music lol." - posted a fifth one.

"He didn't do shyt prob told the real engineer one thing then took credit Mt plea deal" - commented a sixth user.

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Young Thug addressed jail time in his feature on Lil Baby's Dumb, Dumb, and Dumber

The tweet about Young Thug being involved in the production of Lil Baby's WHAM as a mixing engineer comes days after the album was released on January 3.

WHAM contains 15 tracks, one of which features the Best Friend rapper alongside his long-time collaborator, Future. In the song, titled Dumb, Dumb and Dumber, Thug's verse acknowledges his recent jail time.

"Yeah, n***a, King Spider back/ I don’t even believe I was locked up, for real, for real/ I was havin’ my way the whole time, fool, you know what I’m saying." - Young Thug rapped on the song.

Thug was first arrested in May 2022 alongside 27 of his associates for the violation of Georgia's RICO Act. At the time, the Danny Glover rapper was believed to be the leader of a violent street gang called the Young Stoner Life, which committed a series of crimes, including murder, robbery, theft, carjackings, assaults, and more.

Roughly a year later, Thug released his third studio album, Business is Business, from behind bars. In February 2024, Nicole Fegan - the defense attorney on the YSL trial - was arrested over unrelated gang charges.

Throughout the lengthy trial, three judges oversaw the case, with Judge Glanville being removed, and Judge Shukura L. Ingram recusing herself from it. Finally, Judge Paige Reese Whitaker took over the case in July 2024.

After the multiple bail bonds and calls for mistrial raised by Young Thug were rejected, the Go Crazy rapper finally took the nolo contendere plea in October 2024 and was released after 30 months in prison, with a 15-year-long probation.

Thug was found guilty on one count of violating the state’s anti-racketeering laws, with his murder and weapons charges dropped, Billboard reported.

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A day after Young Thug's prison release, two more of his co-defendants - Marquavius “Qua” Huey and Rodalius “Lil Rod” Ryan - took plea deals.