Last year, Atlanta rapper Sergio “Gunna” Kitchens was riding high on the release of his celebratory eighth project, DS4EVER. But in the year and a half since that LP’s January 2022 release, Gunna and YSL label head Young Thug have had their lives and careers upended by RICO charges that …
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Gunna has released a new album, A Gift and a Curse, marking his first major project since his release from jail following his plea in the YSL gang case. The 15-track album is a fully solo affair with no features. On several songs, Gunna appears to address his arrest, the …
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Who the F*ck Is Strick may be a confrontational tour title, but the rapper born Tauren Strickland is ready for his pseudonym to permeate beyond the prominent hip-hop circles he’s a part of. Before signing to Young Thug’s Young Stoner Life Records in 2018, he was a branding liaison to …
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Quantavious Grier, the brother ofYoung Thug, has been sentenced to nine years and six months in prison, theAtlanta Journal-Constitutionand WSB-TV reported on Monday. According to WSB-TV, Grier, 34, who performs under the name Unfoonk, pleaded guilty in December to violating Georgia’s RICO Act and theft by receiving stolen property in …
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Gunna addresses the YSL gang case and the fallout from his plea deal on his new song “Bread & Butter.” Gunna is upfront about it all from the get-go, as the song starts with a smattering of news reports about his arrest in May 2021 as part of a massive …
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Today marks one year since Young Thug, Gunna, and 26 others were charged in a 56-count indictment in Atlanta. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleges that Thug (real name: Jeffery Williams) is the leader of Young Slime Life, which she claims is a criminal street gang. Williams, who has …
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Congressmen Hank Johnson (D-GA) and Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) have reintroduced the Restoring Artist Protection or RAP Act, a legislation that, if passed, would limit the use of song lyrics for use in criminal proceedings. The bill’s proponents — including music executives from the Recording Academy and its Black Music Collective …
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Fulton County sheriff’s deputies arrested Anastassios Manettas, an attorney representing one of the defendants in the sprawling trial ofrapper Young Thug and 13 others accused of gang and racketeering charges in Atlanta. Manettas had been carrying prescription medicine and on Thursday, officers dragged him off at the security checkpoint. The …
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In footage from the opening phase of Young Thug‘s trial in Atlanta, the superstar — forehead firmly on a courtroom table while his lawyers slog through the early weeks of an interminable trial — has often seemed broken by the court. But seen another way, the Young Thug trial is …
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ABC News Studios and Hulu are prepping a new documentary, Rap Trap: Hip-Hop on Trial, that will explore the ongoing YSL/Young Thug trial and the use of rap lyrics in criminal prosecutions. The doc will premiere Feb. 23. Young Thug (real name Jeffrey Williams) was one of 28 people arrested …
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