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Rapper Young Thug was arrested this Monday as a part of an 88 page indictment including 28 people and 56 counts total. He’s been accused of being the creator of the gang YSL according to court documents. “Young Slime Life” (YSL) enterprise, and stated that members “conspired to associate and with others for the common purposes of illegally obtaining money and property through a pattern of racketeering activity and conducting and participating in the enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity.”
The indictment against Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Lamar Williams cited that his songs “Slime Sh*t,” “Original Slime Sh*t,” and “Anybody” all included examples of “overt acts” with some including “racketeering.” There are references to him being asked permission to kill YFN Lucci while he was behind bars saying “I’m prepared to take them down,” “murder gang sh*t,” and “I never killed anybody but I got something to do with that body” as a part of dozens of lyrics being mentioned in court.
And Thugger’s not the first this has happened to. Tekashi 69 was asked by prosecutors in 2019 if his song GUMMO included threats to rivals of his ata the time. And in 2017 Drakeo the Ruler’s Flex Freestyle was accused of being used to conspire murder. Rappers like Killer Mike have argued that music should be an art form and safe space where raw emotions should be allowed to be expressed without fear of retribution.
Thugger’s father, Jeffery Williams, Sr. spoke to WSB-TV this week about his son’s arrest saying, “I think my son has been unfairly linked to a lot of things. But it’s up to us to prove it. I’m gonna fight for him to the end. I’m his father. That’s what I do.” And he had a message for other parents experiencing similar saying “I want any parent that has lost a child to the street violence, any parent that wants to join in marching on street violence, because these are our kids. These are our kids out here. That’s been misled.”
