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Young Thug, Travis Scott, Quavopick up the phone (feat. Quavo)

Trending since · peaked at 144 charts

Yah, oh, yah
Ooh, Thugger
Yeah, Travis Scott
Thugger, Thugger baby

Young Thug's Coachella appearance is pulling catalog deep cuts back into heavy rotation. According to a Reddit thread from the festival weekend, Thug performed as a surprise substitute on the Sunday lineup, prompting a wave of playlist revisits across his back catalog — and this 2016 three-way collaboration with Travis Scott and Quavo has been among the primary beneficiaries. That timing lines up with a New York Times profile from late April reassessing Thug's influence on hip-hop's melodic turn, which likely primed the wider conversation. Originally released as the lead single from Scott's Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, "pick up the phone" reached number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned double-platinum certification from the RIAA. Broadly charting across 144 country and platform charts today, the track is a reminder of how completely that mid-2016 Atlanta-Houston axis defined the genre's next decade.

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