NOS news•today, 03:34
American rapper Young Thug will soon be released now that he has pleaded guilty in a trial that has been dragged out. The 33-year-old rapper is suspected of extortion and gang-related crimes. According to the prosecutor, the record label, which he co-founded, was a front for a criminal organization that accounted for 75 to 80% of “violent crime” in the city of Atlanta.
In the courtroom, Jeffery Lamar Williams, as the rapper is known, read a statement that lasts more than five minutes. He described himself as “a good man with a good heart”. He had gotten into trouble, he said, for being “just nice or cool.”
The judge then sentenced him to the amount of time he spent in pre-trial detention, more than 900 days. In addition, he is on probation for 15 years and is prohibited from coming to Atlanta, the city where he grew up and lived, for 10 years.
Overall, the sentence is much lower than the 45 years that prosecutors had sought.
Rap song lyrics as proof
That quote didn’t go down well with the rapper’s fans, but experts were also skeptical. The US prosecutor used lyrics from the rapper’s songs as evidence. It was this damaged freedom of expression, the criticism.
The case took a long time due to several incidents and a relatively large number of suspects, many of whom settled with the prosecutors.
Young Thug broke through in 2014. He collaborated with other famous American artists such as Travis Scott, TI and Tyga. Young Thug won a Grammy in 2019 for his contribution to the song This is America by Childish Gambino. The artist won another Grammy two years ago.
It is unclear if Young Thug will perform and release music again.
2024-11-01 02:34:00
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