Young Thug Producer Says Frank Ocean Was Meant To Appear On Beautiful Thugger Girls
Charlie Handsome also teased an upcoming Travis Scott remix of “Me Or Us.”
Young Thug's "singing album" Beautiful Thugger Girls finally dropped earlier this month. In a new interview producer Charlie Handsome has said that Frank Ocean was due to appear on "Me Or Us," a track on the project he co-produced alongside Rex Kudo and Post Malone.
“Originally, we thought Frank Ocean was going to get on this record," Handsome told DJ Booth. "We were really hoping for Frank, but I don’t know if his schedule didn’t work out or whatever." Earlier this year Young Thug appeared on a remix of Ocean's "Slide On Me."
Handsome charted the entire history of "Me Or Us," a song possibly best known for interpolating Bright Eyes's emo anthem "First Day Of My Life." It started life in a session for Kanye West's The Life Of Pablo when Post Malone began playing with an acoustic guitar in the studio, he explained. "Kanye had this cool melody/hook concept called "Gangster Love," that’s what we were calling it anyway, and it sounded super crazy."
The producer also teased that a new version of "Me Or Us" is in the pipeline. "I think right now Thug’s going to have Travis Scott cut a piece to that and re-upload it to Spotify so that’ll be really cool. Look out for 'Me or Us 2.0.'”
Read the full DJ Booth interview with Charlie Handsome here.