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Young Thug's "Ninja" refers to the opening track on rapper Young Thug's September 2025 album UY SCUTI, which was the first album released after Young Thug's trial on RICO charges. Young Thug notably raps the n-word with a "hard R" multiple times during the track's outro, saying, "I'm calling my opps 'nigger.'" The album cover also showed Young Thug race-swapped as a white man, which, mixed with his use of the "hard R," generated discourse and backlash against Young Thug based on the racist undertones of the song. Many internet users shared viral posts and memes about "Ninja" on social media sites like Twitter / X and TikTok. Notable posts questioned Young Thug's sanity and identity as a Black man.

Origin

On September 26th, 2025, rapper Young Thug released his fourth studio album UY SCUTI.^[1][3] It was originally announced by the rapper in April 2025.^[2] The first track on the album was called "Ninja" and the song's visualizer on YouTube^[4] received over 95,400 views in less than a day. At the song's 3:20-minute mark, Young Thug repeats the n-word with a "hard R."

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On September 26th, 2025, X^[5] user @ascinhiding tweeted a clip of Young Thug's verse in which he repeats the racial slur, captioning it, "Bro is Young Thug okay??" The tweet received over 38,000 likes in a few hours.

bro is young thug okay?? pic.twitter.com/91o2yIcDNE

— asc 🦥 (@ascinhiding) September 26, 2025

On that same day, Redditor 00Property1 shared the controversial "Ninja" snippet to the /r/playboicarti^[9] subreddit, gaining over 890 upvotes in a few hours.

On September 26th, 2025, X^[6] user @gasbabii tweeted a bar from the controversial Young Thug verse in all caps, gaining over 11,000 likes in a few hours.

On September 26th, X^[7] user @scubaryan_ tweeted a clip of YouTubers Zias and B Lou reacting to the song on stream, in which they appeared shocked by the verse on "Ninja" with the racial slur. The clip gained over 22,000 likes in a few hours.

Zias and B Lou were left in disbelief while listening to Young Thug’s new song called “Ninja” 😭 pic.twitter.com/Izz0yq1GEC

— ryan 🤿 (@scubaryan_) September 26, 2025

On September 26th, 2025, X^[8] user @nvthanfr tweeted a GIF of Zias and B Lou, captioned, "Why is a white Young Thug calling me the hard r?" gaining over 1,700 likes in a few hours.

On that same day, TikToker^[10] @ixaiah6 shared a video meme, showing men dancing to the "Ninja" verse with the racial slurs, and a text caption following the "On EVERYONE's Soul, We ALL X" phrasal template, reading, "How we ALL was dancing to the first track on that Thug album." Over five hours, the video received over 25,100 likes.

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