Barter 6
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| Mixtape by Young Thug | ||||
| Released | April 17, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 2014–15 | |||
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| Length | 51:39 | |||
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| Consequence of Sound | C+ |
| HipHopDX | 4/5 |
| Now |   |
| Pitchfork | 8.4/10 |
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| Spin | 6/10 |
| XXL | 4/5 |
Barter 6 is a commercial mixtape by American rapper Young Thug. It was released on April 16, 2015, by 300 Entertainment, Atlantic Records and YSL. The mixtape made available for retail purchase. Barter 6 features guest appearances from Birdman, T.I., Boosie Badazz, Young Dolph, Yak Gotti, Duke and Jacquees, while the production was handled primarily by in-house producers London on da Track and Wheezy, among others. Barter 6 received generally positive reviews and peaked at 22 on the US charts.
The album was initially titled Carter 6, in continuation of the naming sequence of Lil Wayne's successful Tha Carter album series. This created controversy, as Wayne's scheduled album Tha Carter V was repeatedly delayed amid a dispute between himself and Cash Money Records, who had reportedly refused to release the album. Wayne subsequently became involved in legal proceedings against Cash Money and publicly criticized the label's owner (and Thug's mentor) Birdman, as well as responding negatively to Thug's decision to name the album after him. Despite this, Thug claimed that he was not trying to be disrespectful, and that Wayne was his "idol".
Following a threat of legal action, Thug announced days prior to the release that the project was to be re-titled Barter 6, in line with the typical Blood gang practice of replacing the letter "C" with "B". He furthered the ill feeling by announcing his first show to promote the project in Hollygrove, New Orleans, one of the neighborhoods in which Wayne was raised.
Barter 6 was released by 300 Entertainment on April 16, 2015, and charted at number 22 on the Billboard 200, selling 17,000 copies in its first week. It was met with generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the mixtape received an average score of 72, based on 13 reviews.
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