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[HIP HOP] 2015 should be a big year for Young Thug. After releasing seven mixtapes since 2011 (including two on Gucci Mane’s record label, 1017, and one on Cash Money Records), the Atlanta rapper will finally drop a full length studio album with producer Metro Boomin under the alias Metro Thuggin this spring. But this is just the beginning: The 23 year old has goals that reach far beyond simply rapping. He sees himself as an emerging mogul. A future icon. “I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro…Or Michael Jackson,” he said in an interview with GQ earlier this month. With it’s massive hook and barely understandable, slurred verses his 2014 single ”Stoner” may not have earned him icon status yet, but it has earned him a couple million YouTube hits. When Young Thug comes to the Town Ballroom on Wednesday, March 11, he’ll bring along Travis Scott, the 20-year-old Houston-based rapper known for his singles like “Quintana” featuring Wale, “Upper Echelon” featuring T.I. and 2 Chainz, and his latest “Mamacita” featuring Young Thug himself.