The Atlanta-based artist, whose given name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, was charged along with more than two dozen other people in a sprawling indictment last May, with more charges added in a second indictment in August. Fellow rapper Gunna, whose real name is Sergio Kitchens, was also charged.
But prosecutors say YSL also has a darker connotation -- a violent street gang called Young Slime Life founded by Young Thug and two others in 2012 and affiliated with the national Bloods gang. The alleged gang members named in the indictment are accused of committing violent crimes -- including murders, shootings and carjackings -- to collect money for the gang, burnish its reputation and expand its power and territory.
Eight others, including Gunna, have already taken plea deals in the case, and six -- four of whom don't have lawyers and two who haven't been arrested -- will be tried later, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. ttached to that filing were letters from more than a dozen music industry executives who have worked with Young Thug. They describe him as one of the most successful hip-hop artists in the world, a dedicated father and friend, a generous contributor to his community and a nurturing mentor to other artists.
The indictment also accuses alleged gang associates of trying to kill rapper YFN Lucci in the Fulton County Jail last February and says that an alleged gang associate shot at a bus in 2015 that was carrying rapper Lil Wayne.
Even Kanye ain't doing this.
What about the record label
LMFAO. The jokes just write themselves. 2023 has not disappointed, so far.
I mean, when u call yourself a thug...