The trial of esteemed rapper Young Thug, also known as Jeffery Lamar Williams, has kicked off in Atlanta, where he faces accusations of co-founding a violent criminal street gang and leveraging his music to endorse it. Prosecutors are making a controversial move by presenting Young Thug s rap lyrics as evidence in the trial, where he maintains his plea of not guilty. Originally indicted alongside over two dozen individuals, five co-defendants are now set to stand trial with him.
it s a gang. the young thug rico trial started with 27 or 28 defendants. by the time it got to trial or heading to jury selection now, people got severed from the case, the thing got broken up, got down to eight or nine defendants. taken a very long time to do that, but weirdly, it s not just being making a cultural reference. it s the closest analog to what this case is going to look like. the young thug trial. and legally, mr. sadow, the new lawyer brought in now for mr. trump, he got gunna and other artists severed out of the case. that s part of the work you do. when we talk about legal and justice accountability, no matter what happens to donald trump as a political force, it s this d.a. among everyone in america, including jack smith who has done a strong case and has a strategy and i think it has to do with speed, a federal case, but this d.a. who said, took these 18 other people, if you try to use racketeering and gang activity to illegally steal
Ural Glanville, the judge in Young Thug's YSL RICO case, reads aloud lyrics to Thug, Yak Gotti, Duke and Peewee Roscoe's 2016 song Slime Shit in court.