A “Wheezy outta here!” tag to start, a Future sermon at the end, Urus trucks and tarmacs in between: The hottest new Lil Baby track feels pretty familiar. More significantly, “Dum, Dumb, and Dumber,” from Baby’s new album, WHAM, spells redemption for Atlanta’s beloved Young Thug. This is Thugger’s first new verse since the plea deal that spared him from a potential life sentence on RICO charges, yet he makes a two-year prison stint sound like a camping trip. “I don’t even believe I was locked up forreal, forreal,” he proclaims. “I was having my way the whole time, fool.”
Other than that, “Dum, Dumb, and Dumber” is business as usual. Baby, Thug, and Future lace the most exorbitant, gold-plated frills they can put into words over doomsday bells and first-class snare rolls. Future’s crib comes with an elevator; Thug screams “Ski!” from a boat; Baby boasts “25 cars, one man” like it’s a Guinness World Record. Noticeably, Thug’s vocal extremities of days past feel distant now: Instead of frantic haymakers, he slings even-keeled jabs, maintaining steely composure. He’s not here to break a sweat. This is a three-man weave of decorated veterans who sign max contracts with their eyes closed.
