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Lyor did some shtick about traffic in Atlanta, and how could you call this a city, where's the downtown even, where's the center of it, how can you have a city with no center, get me back to New York. Just the week before, a former security guard had been assassinated in his home near downtown Atlanta. As *GQ'*s Style Guy, Mark Anthony Green, said during the photo shoot for this story: “You will never see bigger guns tucked into smaller pants.” His main security guard carries a semiautomatic assault rifle even when Thug's at the recording studio.

The people who travel with him cut an equally fashion-forward swath. He refers to those allied against him as “peasants.” There are always lots of guns around him. (Thug's former road manager was convicted for the incident.) He is known to have a temper, to have more-and more dangerous-bad blood with different factions in Atlanta than any other rapper. He's been questioned about firing shots at the tour bus of Lil Wayne, who was once and probably still is his greatest artistic hero. Thug got in trouble when a mall security guard said Thug threatened to shoot him in the face. A former friend said Thug would stay up for days, take lots of different kinds of drugs, then sleep for 24 to 48 hours. Thug drinks prescription cough syrup all day, takes Xanax, smokes marijuana, eats molly. Thug recently took possession of two new purebred dogs, flown by airplane first-class from Snoop Dogg's dog breeder. Oonphoonk is in prison on a murder conviction-another of Thug's brothers was murdered outside his house when Thug was a kid. They call one of his brothers, phonetically, Oonphoonk. His little sister Dora, whom he calls his twin, is almost constantly by his side. His mom and dad call each other brother and sister now. He is extremely close to his mother, who suffers from an enlarged heart. He covered them with his hand when he talked. He didn't have the gold front teeth yet his teeth were rotted, discolored. He had nothing, his first manager says, when he began rapping. He grew up in Section 8 housing in a very poor, violent part of Atlanta. He is one of 11 children, dropped out of high school, had his first child at 17. He's on-again, off-again with his girlfriend, Jerrika, but at the time we talked he said they're engaged. He recently called the 2-year-old son of a woman he was flirting with online sexy. He calls a Gucci shirt sexy, he calls men sexy, and women he flirts with. When he likes something, he calls it sexy. He wears little girls' dresses as shirts sometimes, women's pants. His toenails are immaculately manicured and painted iridescent.

All the greens, he says, to keep me healthy.

On the third of every month, a doctor shows up at his mansion near Buckhead and injects him with vitamins. Says he does not like to eat, and goes for days without food. He is 24 years old and six feet three inches tall but has the tiniest little feet, size 8.5, like someone had bound them when he was a child. Looking into a person's eyes-seeking some kind of a connection-is an admission of neediness, and Young Thug would rather be shot dead in the street than need a thing from another human being.

I can't even imagine him making actual, on-purpose eye contact with another human.

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But Thug is alone even in a room full of people. And, being a highly sought-after rapper whose music has been played on YouTube alone 250 million times, he often finds himself in crowds. Young Thug is a figure of unique fascination, the rapper who seems to embody the most mysterious and alluring aspects of the Atlanta music scene, which is itself the object of unique fascination.

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Over the course of observing him for 20-something hours over several days, I did not witness a single act of what might be described as “conversation.” He'd be sitting next to his little sister Dora at a console in the recording studio or playing a high-stakes dice game with various professional gamblers and the rapper Offset, from the group Migos, and he'd be doing what preschool teachers would refer to as “parallel play.” Even for people who are friends with him, Thug can be difficult to talk to. When it comes time to actually sit down and interview Young Thug, it's extremely unnerving.