Whereas serving time for RICO expenses, Younger Thug is dropping a brand new album titled Enterprise Is Enterprise from his jail cell. Right here’s the most recent.
Atlanta rapper Younger Thug stays behind bars as he awaits his trial, which has already been postponed a number of occasions. The most recent delay places the listening to taking place on July 12, after legislation enforcement seized the lawyer’s laptop computer. Protection legal professional Eric Johnson allegedly allowed the rapper to contact different YSL members not in custody.
Younger Thug and Gunna had been arrested alongside 26 different YSL associates on allegations that ‘Younger Slime Life’ is a felony avenue gang. That 88-page grand-jury indictment says alleges 182 situations of felony conspiracy, with cited lyrics, social media posts, and clothes and niknaks cited as proof. Younger Thug and Gunna have each been denied bond a number of occasions and it has introduced up questions over artists being tried for the content material of their lyrics.
“You understand, this isn’t nearly me or YSL,” Younger Thug informed Scorching 97’s Summer time Jam in a pre-recorded message on June 12. “I at all times use my music as a type of inventive expression, and I see now that Black artists and rappers don’t have that freedom. All people please signal the Shield Black Artwork petition and hold praying for us. I like you all.”
The Petition to Shield Black Artwork was co-written by 300 Leisure Co-Founder Kevin Liles, who helped get the YSL label up and operating. Atlantic Data COO Julie Greenwald additionally co-signed the doc which asks federal and state legislators to undertake payments to restrict the usage of rap lyrics as admissible proof within the court docket of legislation.
The indictment alleges that Younger Thug is the founding father of the road gang fashioned in 2012, with “affiliation with the nationwide Bloods gang.” Younger Thug based the imprint Younger Stoner Life in 2016 with 300 Leisure. The YSL Data roster is known as the ‘Slime Household,’ counting rappers Lil Duke, Yak Gotti, and Unfook additionally named within the indictment.