Young Thug is finding himself in a bit of precarious situation these days. Over the past week or so, the Atlanta rapper has been dealing with leaked audio from jail phone calls and interrogations from when he was incarcerated for three years awaiting his YSL RICO trial, and some of the subject matter has led to him receiving backlash online.
Thugger seemingly addressed the vitriol that’s been coming his way this afternoon with a tweet that reads, “Bashing me only goin f— that rap community up more, I’m the blue to this fake a– game.”
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Last week, Thug tweeted, “Stop trying to make me one of those boys. Death before dishonor this way kids,” and also tweeted and deleted a message that read: “They didn’t play my interrogation video in court cause I helped my brada #Ratwhere,” in regards to leaked interrogation room audio in which he allegedly mentioned Peewee Roscoe when talking to investigators about Lil Wayne‘s tour bus incident from 2015.
Roscoe then came to Thug’s defense by addressing the audio on social media. “Jeff clean as Listerine, man,” he said. “Clean as ivory soap, ya feel what I’m saying? I done the time. I did that. That’s what you supposed to do. When you go into the interrogation room, that’s what you do.”
The Gunna fanpage @Gunnaupdates on X is mainly responsible for posting the leaked audio and recently told Rolling Stone that some fans “have been sitting on these for a while now,” and that anyone can obtain public records like jail calls by making an Open Records Request with the county.
If you recall, last year a jail call between Thug and his girlfriend Mariah the Scientist made its way online, and the Cobb County Jail told Billboard the same thing, saying that “the Cobb County Sheriff’s routinely receives and fulfills open records requests of phone calls and video visitations for Jeffery Williams.”
Since Gunna decided to take an Alford Plea a few months after being arrested in connection to the YSL RICO case, Young Thug has thrown jabs online at his former collaborator once tweeting, “If u a rapper and u a rat, u gotta just go gospel twin,” and deleting a tweet telling Gunna to “stop acting like we friends on the internet.”
