Young Thug and Chris Brown to Release New Mixtape Slime & B

Young Thug and Chris Brown might be sharing the trick they’ve been hiding up their sleeves next week.

On Tuesday morning (April 28), Breezy uploaded a post to Instagram hinting that he and Thugger could be dropping their mixtape, which appears to be titled Slime & B, on May 5. “5th day of the 5th month @thuggerthugger1,” the singer wrote in the caption.

There has yet to be an official confirmation on the name of the mixtape or the release date, but Slime & B appears to be the working title. Additionally, May 5 is not only the day Thugger and Brown could be dropping their joint project, but it is also Chris’ 31st birthday.

The project was first mentioned on April 6 when Breezy announced that he and Thugger had a joint mixtape in the works for fans. “Me and Thugga Thugga @thuggerthugger1 got a mixtape coming soon,” he said on his Instagram story.

This wouldn’t be the first time Chris Brown and Young Thug have worked together. Breezy and Thugger have collabed on tracks such as “Wrist (Remix),” “Dat Night” and “High End.” Slime & B will also be Brown and Thug’s first projects since 2019. Chris dropped Indigo in June of 2019 while Thugger delivered So Much Fun in August of 2019.

Very few details have been disclosed regarding the project or what fans can expect to hear from the duo. However, if their prior collaborations are any indication of what they plan to deliver, the tape is going to give fans a healthy mix of trap and R&B.

XXL has reached out to a rep for Young Thug and Chris Brown for comment.

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Shady Records/Interscope Records

Shady Records’ Eminem Presents: The Re-Up (2006)

Record Label: Shady Records/Interscope Records
Release Date: Dec. 5, 2006
Eminem’s first and only Shady Records compilation album is a project with high-octane raps that showcase the peak of Em’s eclectic roster. For his part, Em’s nearly at his best and so is 50 Cent. When everything comes together—as it does on “You Don’t Know”—you get a glimpse of the union between Shady-G-Unit Records being the force people probably imagined it would be in 2004. Those moments don’t materialize on every track, but it’s a strong introduction for Shady Records 2.0.

Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam

Disturbing Tha Peace’s Ludacris Presents Disturbing Tha Peace (2005)

Record Label: Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam
Release Date: Dec. 13, 2005
Ludacris Presents: Disturbing Tha Peace didn’t make the big statement Luda probably expected, but it’s a collection of Dirty South tunes that slap. The best tracks feature Luda at the center, but the songs that don’t also manage to stand on their own—though they aren’t always particularly memorable. For the most part, the artists and singers hold their own with solid verses and production that always on the same wavelength. Ludacris and Field Mob’s “Georgia” and Shawnna’s “Gettin Some” are standouts.

Cash Money Records Inc.

Young Money’s We Are Young Money (2009)

Record Label: Cash Money Records
Release Date: Dec. 21, 2009
At the peak of his commercial powers, Lil Wayne forecasted early-to-mid-2010s rap with We Are Young Money, a compilation album that set the stage for Drake and Nicki Minaj to become the biggest artists of the era. While Young Money has always been top-heavy, and songs that don’t feature at least two of the Weezy-Drizzy-Nicki triumvirate can occasionally verge on forgettable, Tyga, Jae Millz and other YM artists manage to inject songs with their own identity and help round out the project. Songs like “Bedrock” and “Every Girl in the World” represent apex bubblegum rap on a project that helped establish Young Money’s legendary run.

Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc./The Island Def Jam Music Group

G.O.O.D Music’s Kanye West Presents: Cruel Summer (2012)

Record Label: Getting Out Our Dreams Inc./The Island Def Jam Music Group
Release Date: Sept. 14, 2012
Making a cohesive compilation album is something that’s hard to do with a diverse roster, so Kanye West’s 2012 G.O.O.D. Music compilation album, Cruel Summer, doesn’t even bother trying to do that. Featuring sleek production and deft verses from an eclectic group of dynamic wordsmiths, the project features undeniable highs even if it is sometimes briefly derailed by bouts of clutter. While some songs (“Creepers,” “Sin City”) might feel unnecessary and over-stuffed, the project is one with highs (“New God Flow,” “Cold.1,” “New God Flow”) that outweigh any disorganization.

Virgin Records America, Inc.

Purple Ribbon All-Stars’ Got Purp?, Vol. 2 (2005)

Record Label: Purple Ribbon All-Stars/Virgin Records America
Release Date: Nov. 22, 2005
With his well-honed flow, Big Boi repped the Dungeon Family hard with Got Purp?, Vol. 2. For the project, Sir Lucious Left Foot captains the ship with dextrous rhymes (“Kryptonite”) while Dungeon Fam vet Sleepy Brown also manages to slide into an album with some southern-fried raps and even some pop-funk. Standout verses from Killer Mike (“Dungeon Family Dedication”) and a memorable Goodie Mob reunion (“Hold On”) tie together a compilation that showcases the spirit of the Dungeon Family.

MMG/Warner Records Inc.

Maybach Music Group’s Self Made, Vol. 1 2011

Record Label: MMG/Warner Records Inc.
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Maybach Music Group’s debut compilation project is one with high-octane anthems (“Ima Boss,” “600 Benz”) that helped establish the label as a dynasty in the making. At its best, Rick Ross, Meek Mill and Wale come together to deliver slick rhymes that capture the spirit of being self-made (“Pandemonium”). While the LP ventures off into generic banger mode at times with an overload on features (“Big Bank,” “Running Rebels”), tight lyricism, inventive collabs and speaker-thumping beats make it a fitting start to the MMG kingdom.

Quality Control Music / Motown Records / Capitol Records

Quality Control Music’s Quality Control: Control the Streets, Vol. 1 (2017)

Record Label: Quality Control Music/Motown Records/Capitol Records
Release Date:  Dec. 18, 2017
By the end of 2016, Quality Control’s Migos and Lil Yachty had established the label as hip-hop’s next potential powerhouse. As 2017 came to a close nearly a year later, the label added acts like Lil Baby and City Girls for their second compilation album, Quality Control: Control the Streets, Vol. 1. While the LP is undoubtedly bloated at 30 tracks, peak Migos, the adventurous Lil Yachty, a blossoming Lil Baby and the rambunctiousness of City Girls make the project a memorable one.

Roc-A-Fella Records

Roc-A-Fella Records’ Streets Is Watching (1998)

Record Label: Roc-A-Fella Records
Release Date: May 5, 1998
In the beginning, Jay-Z, Dame Dash and Kareem “Biggs” Burke were determined to drum up a buzz for Roc-A-Fella Records any way they could. One of those methods was Streets Is Watching, Hov’s self-mythologizing movie and accompanying soundtrack that acted as a sort of label showcase years before Jay’s Dynasty: Roc La Familia album. While the project didn’t serve too many memorable singles, sleek raps from 1998 Hov (“Only a Customer,” “Murdergram” with Ja Rule and DMX), Noreaga and a young Memphis Bleek make the LP a worthy addition to Hov’s catalog and Roc lore.

Shady Records/Interscope Records

Shady Records’ 8 Mile (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) (2002)

Record Label: Shady Records/Interscope Records
Release Date: Oct. 29, 2002
“Lose Yourself” is the song that won an Oscar, but the soundtrack for Eminem’s semi-autobiographical film 8 Mile is a lot more than its history-making first single. “Wanksta” continued the rise of 50 Cent with its blend of mocking humor and a beat that sounds like a carnival for imaginary players. Meanwhile, Jay-Z and Freeway deliver memorable turns on “8 Miles and Runnin.” Rakim and Gang Starr also show up for a soundtrack that mirrors the grime of hip-hop’s Rocky.

Ruff Ryders/Interscope Records

Ruff Ryders’ Ryde or Die Vol. 1 (1999)

Record Label: Ruff Ryders/Interscope
Release Date: April 27, 1999
There are four entries in the Ruff Ryders’ Ryde or Die compilation series, but the first, titled Ryde or Die, Vol. 1, is easily the most important. The opening track, “Ryde or Die,” distills the label ethos into an indelible anthem while re-introducing The Lox. Meanwhile, “What Ya Want,” a Swizz Beatz-produced, Latin-infused ditty, helps establish Eve as the next venom-spitting femcee of the moment. Then there’s the Jay-Z-starring “Jigga My Nigga,” which still slaps like it did in 1999. While parts of it feel generic, it’s one of the more effective label opening statements ever.

G Unit/Interscope Records

G-Unit’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture) (2005)

Record Label: G-Unit Records/Interscope Records
Release Date: Nov. 8, 2005
Released at the peak of G-Unit’s dominance, the soundtrack for 50 Cent’s semi-autobiographical movie, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, is probably the album fans were expecting when they were waiting for the follow-up to Beg for Mercy. Like 50’s 2003 debut album of the same name, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, and Beg for Mercy, the LP can be poignant (“Hustler’s Ambition”), relentlessly street (“I Don’t Know Officer”) and a lot of fun (“Window Shopper”). With a cohesive group of songs threaded together by 50’s pen, it’s the rare compilation that’s more than the sum of its parts.

Rawkus Records

Rawkus Records’ Lyricist Lounge 2 (2000)

Record Label: Rawkus Records
Release Date: Nov. 28, 2000
Lyricist Lounge 2 starts off with a ferocious verse from The Notorious B.I.G. and never lets up. With appearances from the era’s finest underground wordsmiths, the Rawkus Records project is the spirit of 1990’s freestyle culture distilled into 18 songs, and it plays out like an extended cypher featuring your underground faves. With DreamTeam collabs you didn’t know you needed (Yasiin Bey and Ghostface Killah, “Ms. Fat Booty 2″), and artists like Royce 5’9,” Beanie Sigel, Cocoa Bruvas and more bringing their best each time out, it’s a compilation that stands up with the best.

Death Row Records

Death Row Records’ Murder Was the Case (1994)

Record Label: Death Row Records/Interscope Records
Release Date: Oct. 18, 1994
Released one year after Snoop Dogg’s debut album, Doggystyle, and seven months after Above the Rim—The Soundtrack, Murder Was the Case—a soundtrack made as an accompaniment for a Snoop Dogg film—added to a historic run from Death Row Records. Like the best compilation albums, the soundtrack doesn’t feel at all thrown together because it includes cohesive production and collaborations that make sense. It occupies a space 50’s GRODT soundtrack would have if some G-Unit members were replaced with rappers with the caliber of DPG or Ice Cube and Dr. Dre.

Dreamville Records

Dreamville Records’ Revenge of the Dreamers (2019)

Record Label: Dreamville Records/Interscope
Release Date: July 5, 2019
Simply put, Dreamville Records’ Revenge of the Dreamers III is what happens when a compilation album—which is usually made up of disparate musical and thematical elements— gets everything right. Featuring 35 different musical acts—Dreamville recording artists, DaBaby, Ski Mask The Slump God, Young Nudy, Smokepurpp, Buddy and everyone in between —the project is a cohesive collection of posse cuts threaded together by understated, but soulful production and artists bringing their A-game in every way on every song. Recorded during Cole’s famed January 2019 rap camp, RDIII about as good as compilations get, and then some.

Maybach Music Group LLC/Warner Records Inc.

Maybach Music Group’s Self Made, Vol. 2 2012

Record Label: Maybach Music Group/Warner Records
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Just over a year after dropping off Self-Made Vol. 1, Rick Ross and MMG returned with Self-Made Vol. 2, an album that feels like an upgrade in almost every way besides indelible singles. Filled with self-mythologizing Rozay raps, bursts of Wale wordplay, Meek Mill’s street-level bars and features from Kendrick Lamar, Nas and French Montana, the LP cuts down on a few by-the-numbers street anthems and holds down a stronger replay value because of it. Production from Don Cannon, Southside and more keeps the show going.

Death Row Records

Death Row Records’ Above the Rim – The Soundtrack (1994)

Record Label: Death Row Records/Interscope Records
Release Date: March 22, 1994
In 1994, Death Row Records was near the peak of its powers. The label showcased that with Above the Rim—The Soundtrack, a project laced with raps from West Coast icons, new jack swing and swirling G-Funk production from a young Daz Dillinger, Johnny J and the one and only Dr. Dre.  Warren G’s Nate Dogg-assisted “Regulate” proved to be the most memorable track. On a project with Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg, that’s testament enough to the power of Death Row and one of the defining rap compilations of the 1990s.

Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope Records

Top Dawg Entertainment’s Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired (2018)

Record Label: Top Dawg Entertainment
Release Date: Feb. 9, 2018
By any account, combining rap and R&B all-stars for a cohesive compilation is hard. Doing so while injecting a movie’s thematical elements for a soundtrack is even harder. Both tasks are managed expertly on Black Panther: The Album, an LP that breathes the Afro-futuristic spirit of Black Panther into songs featuring Future, The Weeknd, Jay Rock and Kendrick Lamar, who executively produced the LP with Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith. With dynamic production, features that always make sense and bars that intermittently connect with the plot of the film, Black Panther: The Album is a perfect soundtrack for a nearly perfect superhero movie.