{"id":47556,"date":"2025-09-28T02:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/47556\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:52:17","slug":"young-thug-reveals-what-drake-told-him-after-jail-call-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/47556\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Thug Reveals What Drake Told Him After Jail Call Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNearly 11 months after reaching a plea deal to secure his release from jail in the YSL RICO trial, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/young-thug\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Young Thug<\/a> returned with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/young-thug-uy-scuti-tracks-ranked\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UY SCUTI album<\/a> on Friday (Sept. 26). <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/drake\/\" class=\"c-lazy-image__link lrv-a-unstyle-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-billboard-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/drake-bg5-344x344.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/young-thug\/\" class=\"c-lazy-image__link lrv-a-unstyle-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-billboard-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/young-thug-bgd-344x344.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-tagline  a-font-secondary-fancy-xxxs@desktop-xl a-font-secondary-fancy-s@desktop-xl-max lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-black u-padding-t-13 lrv-u-padding-b-2 lrv-u-margin-tb-00 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-color-black lrv-u-width-100p\">See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBefore letting his music do the talking, Thug became the victim of street politics and a plethora of leaked jail phone calls, which muddied his reputation in recent months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhile some rappers distanced themselves from King Spyder, Drake doubled down on his friendship with Thug, as the YSL honcho revealed that Drizzy reached out to him in the midst of the chaos to let him know they\u2019ll always remain solid. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThugger joined the Pivot Podcast on Friday, where he revealed the advice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/drake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drake<\/a> gave him, along with clearing the air regarding their friendship. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cDrake, the jail phones all that s\u2014t came out, Drake text me, \u2018N\u2014a, I love you. Drop that music, bro. Let your music talk,&#8217;\u201d he recalled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThug went on to claim he\u2019s never been one to pillow talk with women, but jail had him in a frazzled state of mind, which made him comment on plenty of his hip-hop peers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cDamn, I was really on the phone talking about people. No girl in my entire life can tell you that I pillow talk with them,\u201d he said. \u201cThat s\u2014t get to me every day, I was really on the phone like a p\u2014y.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAn alleged jail phone call leak between Thug and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/mariah-the-scientist\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah the Scientist <\/a>saw the Atlanta rapper criticizing Drake over his treatment of Metro Boomin following his mother\u2019s passing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cYou\u2019re using the fact that you\u2019re Drake as a weapon now and the n\u2014a just not feeling that right now,\u201d Thug said on a leaked call, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibe.com\/news\/entertainment\/young-thug-shots-future-drake-leaked-calls-apologizes-1235108202\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VIBE<\/a>. \u201cYou supposed to get on your big ol\u2019 plane, and went to where that n\u2014a was or where that n\u2014a momma died, cause you really, really, really, mess with a n\u2014a.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThere\u2019s been speculation regarding the rift between Drake and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/metro-boomin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metro Boomin<\/a> stemming from Drizzy requesting a song from Metro while he was in the midst of grieving the loss of his mother. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAfter dishing out a pair of assists on Thug\u2019s 2023 Business Is Business album, Drake was noticeably absent from the star-studded UY SCUTI guest list, but Thugger insists they\u2019re still tight. Drake was among those Thug apologized to in his sincere \u201cMiss My Dogs\u201d single. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the full interview below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 11 months after reaching a plea deal to secure his release from jail in the YSL RICO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,2526,157,3296,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-47556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-hiphop","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}