Young Thug
Young Thug described in an interview, regarding his alleged campaign to become president, how he would interact with billionaires and his response was:
"I'll change the status of billionaires. I'll probably give a person that's gonna proceed to make a billion...I'll make it so that you have to endorse this money somewhere, you have to give this money to the poor," ... "We gonna take this shit away. We gonna freeze it... If I'm the president, I'm gonna do it for the people."[1]
Summary
From Wikipedia:
Jeffery Lamar Williams (born August 16, 1991), known professionally as Young Thug, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is considered to be an influential figure of his generation, with his music impacting the modern sound of hip hop and trap music. Known for his eccentric vocal style and fashion, Thug initially released a series of independent mixtapes beginning in 2011 with I Came from Nothing. In early 2013, he signed with Gucci Mane's 1017 Records, and later that year he released his label debut mixtape 1017 Thug to critical praise.
Young Thug received mainstream recognition in 2014 with the singles "Stoner" and "Danny Glover" in addition to appearances on several singles, including T.I.'s "About the Money", Tyga's "Hookah", and Rich Gang's "Lifestyle". That year, he also signed to Lyor Cohen's 300 Entertainment and collaborated on the mixtape Rich Gang: Tha Tour Pt. 1. In 2015, he amassed a number of mixtapes, including Barter 6 and two installments of his Slime Season series. Subsequently in 2016, Thug issued commercial mixtapes I'm Up, Slime Season 3, and Jeffery. In 2017, Thug featured on the worldwide hit "Havana" by Cuban pop singer Camila Cabello, which became his first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2018, he released a compilation album Slime Language with his label YSL Records. In 2019, he won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for his contributions to Childish Gambino's "This Is America".
Young Thug's debut studio album, So Much Fun (2019), debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and included the Billboard Hot 100 top-twenty singles "The London" and "Hot". The following year, his single "Go Crazy" with Chris Brown from the collaborative mixtape Slime & B (2020) peaked at number three on the Hot 100, becoming his first top-ten single as a lead artist. Additionally, he reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second time in his career with his feature alongside M.I.A. on Travis Scott's single "Franchise", In 2021, Thug released the compilation album Slime Language 2 which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Later that year, Thug would reach number one on the Hot 100 a third time by featuring alongside Future on Drake's "Way 2 Sexy". His second studio album, Punk, was released on October 15, 2021. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming his third number-one album, as well as his second chart topping project of 2021.[2]
Innovations to Rap Music
No one has been as influential on music as Young Thug has.[3]
Gender Fluidity
As he [Young Thug] explains in a video for Calvin Klein’s Fall 2016 campaign, “In my world, you can be a gangsta with a dress or you can be a gangsta with baggy pants. I feel like there’s no such thing as gender.”[4]
RICO Trial
Thug and Gunna were among the nearly 30 people named earlier this month in a Fulton County, Ga., indictment, one that alleges YSL, aka Young Slime Life, is an Atlanta area gang. Now, fans of Thugger know that his record label is also called YSL, and Gunna, as Thug's protege, releases music under that outfit. Gunna is being charged with conspiracy to violate Georgia's RICO Act, while Thug's being charged with one count of conspiracy and one count of participation in criminal street activity.
The paperwork they got on them dates as far back as 2013, and it includes charges ranging from possession of marijuana to assault with a deadly weapon to murder. What it also includes are social media posts and rap lyrics from Thug and Gunna. Tracks like "Anybody" are being admitted as evidence of, quote, "overt act in furtherance of a conspiracy."[5]
Lawyers arrested
See this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdbekr3cfDw
The Judge
Artists Defending Young Thug
Dave Chappelle
See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFeNTcmGPY
Killer Mike
See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFeNTcmGPY
Kodak Black
Kodak Black said in his song '300,' "That's fucked up what they did to Young Thug/ Can't let them get me/ I was freestlyin' this shit, i say/ Shit i might as well just write it[6]
Elton John
After witnessing Young Thug in the studio, Elton John says he was “just blown away.” During a recent interview with Billboard, he opened up about the time he saw Thug’s freestyle abilities in person.
“I mean, I’ve seen Marshall [Mathers] do it in Detroit, but I’ve never seen someone like Thug come in and do that,” the legend said. “In the end, I had to leave because I think he felt a bit intimidated that I was there, and I just wanted him to relax. But it’s just an amazing moment in my musical life…I have no understanding of how rap records are put together, and it’s fascinating to watch.”[7]
Machine Gun Kelly
Gucci Mane
Community Service
Atlanta Forest Defenders
See Also: Atlanta Forest Defenders
Twitter post explaining the connections between the construction of Cop City and the YSL RICO charges: https://twitter.com/defendATLforest/status/1549538562550517761
More to come soon !
Capitalism
Sources
- ↑ https://www.thefader.com/2019/08/23/young-thug-president-wealth-distribution-interview
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Thug
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20191021-why-young-thug-is-the-21st-centurys-most-influential-rapper
- ↑ https://www.complex.com/style/a/michael-arceneaux/young-thug-says-there-is-no-such-thing-as-gender
- ↑ https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1100210753
- ↑ https://genius.com/Kodak-black-300-blackout-lyrics
- ↑ https://www.revolt.tv/article/2021-10-05/107345/elton-john-praises-young-thugs-freestyling-skills-its-fascinating-to-watch/