{"id":142999,"date":"2025-09-09T02:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/142999\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T02:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:10:15","slug":"young-thug-tearfully-speaks-on-gunnas-betrayal-in-new-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/142999\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Thug Tearfully Speaks on Gunna\u2019s \u2018Betrayal\u2019 in New Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tYoung Thug<\/a> recently came to tears on the Perspektives With Bank podcast <\/a>while discussing his disappointment with Gunna<\/a>, his former YSL signee. In 2022, the two, along with 26 other men, were ensnared in the YSL RICO case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Prosecutors alleged that Thug and Gunna were co-bosses of a street gang \u2014 Thug maintains YSL was never a criminal organization. But in December 2022, Gunna took an Alford Plea that required a hearing where he affirmed to Judge Glenda J. Kendrick that YSL was a \u201cgang\u201d that \u201cmust end.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Thug explained to Atlanta media personality and rapper Big Bank Black, his one-time friend crossed a line that he doesn\u2019t feel like they can come back from. \u201cOnce you rat, or once you turn gay \u2014 and I don\u2019t got nothing against gay people\u2026I can\u2019t look at you the same. I\u2019ma just look at you like you broke a man code.\u201d He then clarified his statements and apologized for potentially offending the \u201cLGTV\u201d community.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThug expressed that he invested heavily in Gunna and helped him in numerous ways, claiming, \u201cI gave him more time than my kids.\u201d Despite reports<\/a> that Gunna\u2019s Alford Plea statement couldn\u2019t be used against YSL co-defendants without his testimony (which didn\u2019t occur), Thug claims that the plea made his lawyer Brian Steele\u2019s defense more difficult, forcing him and other YSL defendants to go back to the drawing board.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWas Gunna takin\u2019 that plea harmful to me? Yes, 100%,\u201d Thug said. \u201cFirst we tellin\u2019 the jurors \u2018YSL ain\u2019t a gang.\u2019 Now [after the plea deals] we goin\u2019 back to the jurors sayin\u2019, \u2018Well, some people might say it\u2019s a gang \u2014 but we ain\u2019t a part of that part of it. We a part of the record label part.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThug expressed that he felt Gunna owes him an explanation after the plea. \u201cEven if I don\u2019t want to hear it, you still supposed to be a real nigga and say it,\u201d he says. \u201cHow can you just do what you did to me and then just go live your life? Like ain\u2019t nothing happened?\u201d Despite his disdain, Thug expressed, \u201cI love you bruh\u2026 I poured so much into him, I can\u2019t even hate him. In jail I thought I hated him\u2026 But I don\u2019t wish no ill will on him \u2014 no ill feelings at all.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhen Bank suggested that Thug wants to forgive Gunna, Thug said, \u201cno I don\u2019t. I wish he did something lighter so I could forgive him\u2026I done cried many nights over this shit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring one juncture of the interview, Thug shed tears while discussing the friends he\u2019s lost because of their cooperation. Alongside Gunna, his recently released \u201cClosing Arguments\u201d track reveals his disdain for Yak Gotti, YSL Slug, YSL Obama, YSL DK, and SlimeLife Shawty, who also took plea deals, as well as YSL Woody, who was a main witness for the prosecution. \u201cThe niggas I be with everyday I don\u2019t got \u2018em no more. I\u2019m fucked up. I don\u2019t know what to do,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I ain\u2019t lose no nigga to tragedy, I lost a nigga to betrayal. You signing that one piece of paper could give me a life sentence\u2026You gon\u2019 let a piece of paper end all this shit?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was a rare moment of vulnerability for Thug, who rarely does in-depth interviews. His raw emotion communicated that his feelings toward Gunna aren\u2019t mere street bluster, but pain that he doesn\u2019t seem to know how to resolve. His devotion to the \u201cstreet code\u201d means he can\u2019t forgive the people who he feels cooperated against him, while many in the world tell him that he\u2019s foolish for not being able to let it go. Rap fans giddily celebrate music that chronicles, if not glorifies, the streets, but they then also attempt to police how much of that mentality an artist should take outside of the booth. The reality is that Thug\u2019s come from a harsh lived experience; during the interview he talked about his brother essentially dying in his arms at 10, and how being in solitary confinement while awaiting trial wracked his mental health. It\u2019s hard to decree what someone\u2019s worldview \u201cshould\u201d be after these kind of life trials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tYoung Thug has been at the center of controversy over the past several days, as recordings of jailhouse calls made while he was incarcerated during the YSL trial<\/a> have leaked online<\/a>. In those calls, he\u2019s heard speaking on his frustrations with everyone from Kendrick Lamar to Drake and even Andre 3000, whom he alleges never put on other Atlanta artists despite being viewed as a pioneer of the Atlanta rap scene. Elsewhere he speculates on the reason behind Metro Boomin and Drake falling out, which Thug says was because Drake kept asking for music in the weeks following Metro\u2019s mother\u2019s passing. The ordeal has made for endless fodder on the rap internet, though has undoubtedly damaged Thug\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince the YSL trial started, Thug has lost friends, opportunities while incarcerated, while Gunna has becom a pariah for many in the rap game. All this acrimony stemmed from a case where Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis spectacularly whiffed while attempting to criminalize rap lyrics and super glue the misdeeds of everyone Thug and Gunna knew onto them. These men came from Atlanta\u2019s most underserved communities, and instead of the city championing its rap community for making the city a worldwide mecca, the state made them targets. Thug wasn\u2019t convicted of anything Fani Willis accused him of; he took a plea for the drugs and guns found in his home when they arrested him. None of this needed to happen, but it did, and these men\u2019s lives will never be the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young Thug recently came to tears on the Perspektives With Bank podcast while discussing his disappointment with Gunna,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,22577,216,6197,89016],"class_list":{"0":"post-142999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gunna","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-young-thug","12":"tag-ysl-trial"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}