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Young Thug has officially returned to music, with the rapper dropping his first verse since his release from jail last year on Lil Baby’s “Dum, Dumb, and Dumber.” The track also boasts a verse from Future, and features production by Wheezy and Juke Wong. Young Thug, for his part, sounds …

Kicking off 2025 with a bang, Lil Baby just dropped his new project WHAM, which he began teasing towards the end of last year, and which features a who’s who in hip-hop joining one of its ascendant stars on a declarative new project. While 2024 was dominated by a beef …

Professor Anthony Michael Kreis teaches constitutional law at Georgia State University and authored the book ‘Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development.’ As a legal scholar and Georgia taxpayer, he found himself captivated by the YSL gang and racketeering trial – a record-breaking proceeding that …

Six weeks after Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug pleaded out of his gang and racketeering conspiracy case in Atlanta, his two remaining co-defendants were acquitted of murder charges Tuesday, ending the longest-running criminal trial in Georgia state history. Deamonte “Yak Gotti” Kendrick was found not guilty of all six charges he …

Deamonte “Yak Gotti” Kendrick, one of the remaining co-defendants in the ongoing YSL gang trial, was stabbed in Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, according to his lawyer, Douglas Weinstein. Weinstein confirmed the attack in posts on X and TikTok Monday morning. He said he spoke with Kendrick on Sunday night, …

Young Thug is free — sort of. Last week, the Atlanta-born rapper accepted a plea deal in the sprawling RICO case against him and associates of his YSL record label. As part of the plea, he agreed to 15 years of probation with 20 years of prison time backloaded, meaning …

When Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug stepped up to a courtroom podium Thursday to give a non-negotiated plea in his gang and racketeering conspiracy case in Atlanta, it was a gamble that paid off. Without any safety net in the form of a signed deal with prosecutors, the artist born Jeffery …

Singer Mariah the Scientist has diligently sat in the gallery at many of Young Thug’s court dates for Georgia’s RICO charges against him. Now that Thug, born Jeffery Williams, has been released after a plea deal, she’s celebrating his return. “Thank you God, thank you God. This is more than …

Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug pleaded out of his long-running racketeering conspiracy case Thursday and was sentenced on the spot to time served, 15 years of probation, and a “backloaded” consecutive sentence of 20 years that only kicks in if he violates probation. The dramatic development led to his immediate release …

Two more co-defendants accepted mid-trial plea deals Wednesday in Young Thug’s long-running gang and racketeering conspiracy prosecution in Georgia. Rodalius Ryan, 20, and Marquavius Huey, 28, each pleaded guilty under separate agreements that required no signed statement of facts and no agreement to testify against others. The new deals mean …