Young Thug cries when talking about Gunna’s ‘betrayal’ in a new interview

Young Thug Recently went to tears in the podcast Perspectives with bank When talking about your disappointment with Gunnayour former artist hired by YSL. In 2022, the two, with 26 other men, were involved in the case YSL RICHmoved by the promoter of Fulton County, Fani Willis. Prosecutors claimed that Thug and Gunna they were co-leaders of a street gang-but Thug insists that YSL It was never a criminal organization. However, in December 2022, Gunna made a confession agreement that required an audience in which he declared to the judge Glenda J. Kendrick that YSL It was a “gang” that “needed to end”.

During the interview with the rapper and presenter Big Bank Black, Thug He said that his former friend crossed a limit he believes there is no more return. “When you go down, or when you change …” And I have nothing against gay people … “I can’t see you the same way. I’m just going to look at you as someone who broke a man’s code of conduct,” he said. Soon after, he apologized for possibly offended the community LGBTQIA+referring to it mistakenly as “LGTV”.

Thug He said he invested a lot in Gunna And he helped him in many ways, stating, “I gave him more time than to my children.” Although reports claim that Gunna’s statement in the confession agreement could not be used against the co-defendants of YSL Without your testimony – what didn’t happen -, Thug said the confession damaged the defense made by his lawyer Brian Steeleforcing him and the other defendants to reformulate the whole strategy.

“Accepting this agreement was harmful to me? Yes, 100%,” he said Thug. “First, we said to the jurors: ‘ YSL It’s not a gang. ‘ Now, after the agreements, we have to go back and say, ‘Well, some people can say it’s a gang – but we are not part of that part, we are part of the label.’

Thug He also said he feels Gunna He owes him an explanation after the confession: “Even if I don’t want to hear, you should be a real guy and say something. How do you do this to me and then follow your life, as if nothing had happened?” Even so, Thug He admitted, “I love you, bro … I put so much of myself in him that I can’t even hate him. In jail, I thought I hated … but I don’t want anything bad for him-no harm, no resentment.”

When Big Bank suggested that he would like to forgive Gunna, Thug He replied, “No, I don’t want to. I wanted him to have done something smaller, so I could forgive him … I cried many nights because of it.”

How the process affected other friendships of Young Thug

At another time of the interview, Young Thug He cried when talking about friends he lost because of his deals with the prosecution. In addition to Gunna, his track “Closing Arguments” reveals his disgust for Yak Gotti, YSL SLUG, YSL OBAMA, YSL DK and Slimelife Shawtywhich also accepted agreements, besides Ysl Woodywho was a key witness to the prosecution. “The guys I was with every day … I have no more. I’m over. I don’t know what to do,” he said. “And I didn’t lose anyone to tragedy, I lost for betrayal. Signing that piece of paper can give me life prison … Are you going to let a role end all this?”

It was a rare moment of vulnerability to Thugwhich rarely participates in long interviews. His raw emotion showed that his feelings about Gunna is not just street speech, but real pain, that he doesn’t know how to deal. His commitment to the “street code” means he can’t forgive those who feel they cooperated against him – even with a lot of people saying he is “dumb” for not being able to overcome.

Meanwhile, rap fans celebrate songs that portray, and sometimes even glorify the reality of the streets, but criticize artists who bring this mindset to life outside the studio. The truth is that Thug It comes from a hard reality: during the interview, he said he saw his brother die in his arms when he was 10 years old and spoke about the devastating effects of solitary confinement while awaiting trial. It’s hard to say how someone “should” think after such traumatic experiences.

In the last days, Thug He also saw himself at the center of another controversy, after leaking recordings of calls made while being arrested during the trial of the YSL. In these conversations, he expresses frustrations with names like Kendrick Lamar, Drake and even André 3000whom he accuses not supporting other Atlanta artists despite being considered a pioneer in the local scene. He also commented on the supposed fight between Metro Boomin and Drakesaying that everything happened because Drake He was still asking for music weeks after the death of the producer’s mother. The recordings became raw material for gossip on the internet, but also shook the reputation of Thug.

Since the beginning of the trial, Young Thug lost friends, opportunities and support while being arrested, while Gunna It became a persona non grateful for many in the rap. All this conflict was born from a case in which the prosecutor Fani Willis unsuccessfully tried to criminalize rap letters and hold responsible Thug and Gunna for all the bad that happened around you. These men came from poor and marginalized communities from Atlanta, and instead of celebrating the overall impact of its rap scene, the state has turned them into targets. Thug He was not convicted of anything that Fani Willis accused him; He made an agreement only for the weapons and drugs found at his home during his arrest.

None of this needed to have happened. But it happened – and the lives of all of them will never be the same.

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