The racketeering and gang-conspiracy trial of Young Thug and his hip-hop collective YSL began on November 27. Here’s a list of the rap lyrics used as evidence in the sprawling 88-page grand-jury indictment.
In a long-awaited decision sure to draw scrutiny, a Georgia judge ruled Nov. 9 that prosecutors will be allowed to admit rap lyrics as evidence at Grammy-winning artist Young Thug’s racketeering and gang trial in Atlanta as long as they pass legal relevance and foundation tests.
In the early 1980s, when hip-hop was cementing itself in the Black community, so was a devastating new drug and a police force that didn't know what to do with either.