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On Thursday night Young Thug took over YouTube's New York office to premiere his new project, No, My Name is Jeffery, and the Atlanta rapper (real name Jeffery Lamar Williams) and 300 Entertainment CEO Lyor Cohen received a balmy acceptable from admirers and industry tastemakers.

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Wearing blatant adornment and Balmain, Thugger sat bottomward with his bang-up and mentor Cohen, who interviewed his elusive signee about Thug's eye-grabbing mixtape awning and changing his date name to his accustomed one for the live-streamed event.

Check out the highlights of the night below.

Thug’s Mixtape Cover

During his Q&A with Cohen, Thug apparent his new anthology cover, which he said was completed “four canicule ago.” Squashing gender norms already again, Thug’s awning appearance him in a dejected dress with an umbrella-like hat careful his face.

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Phoneless Thug

Cohen explained to the army how Thug told him two weeks ago that he capital to release No, My Name is Jeffery. “You absolutely didn’t alarm me. You put it out on amusing media,” Cohen said with a smirk. “I had to hunt him. He doesn’t accept a adaptable phone. I absolutely had to get on a alike to allocution to him.” Thug dedicated not accepting a phone. “I feel like the buzz was in my way," he said. "So I got rid of the buzz to focus.”

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Fearless Thug

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After alive with abounding notable stars like Jay Z, DMX and more, Cohen crowned Thugger as his best audacious rapper. “You deathwatch up every day afterwards any fear," he told the rapper. "I’ve dealt with so abounding rappers all through my activity that deathwatch up every day fearful. They’re afraid to afterlife and they try to imitate the best acknowledged rapper at that moment. You don’t alike accept to the radio.”

Wedding Bells

One fan asked Young Thug about his bells affairs to fiancé Jerrika Karlae. Thug looked aback at his lady, as she sat a few anxiety abaft him and reassured anybody that their advantageous day was coming. “The bells is declared to be in October, but I gotta tour," he said. "So we pushed it aback to like two or three months so it ability be December or January.”

Star-Studded Album

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Thug name-dropped abounding of his influences on his new mixtape. Songs like "Guwop" (name afterwards Gucci Mane), "Wyclef Jean," "Floyd Mayweather," "Webbie," "Swizz Beatz," and "Harambe" (referencing the gorilla killed beforehand this year at the Cincinnati Zoo) all begin the rapper advantageous admiration to anniversary arresting figure. "Future Swag" was decrepit in remnants of Super Hendrix as Thug adopted the ATLien’s signature breeze and ashamed it.

Bye Young Thug. Hello, Jeffery

Towards the end of the interview, Thug went into all-encompassing detail about absent to be called Jeffery instead of his old rap moniker. “The acumen why I confused from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I acquainted like I did a amiss turn,” he said. “I had a abiding accord with Young Thug and I’m affectionate of picky. So I acquainted like I ain’t wanna be in advanced of Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey. I ain’t appetite my kids to abound up and alarm me Thug." He added, "I don’t appetite anybody to affectionate of attending at me like that. So I’m gonna aloof use my absolute name."

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