On Could 9, 2022, Younger Thug was arrested on Georgia state expenses of participation in road gang exercise and conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Immediately (November 27), his trial lastly begins after a number of delays. Opening statements from the prosecution and protection will handle his alleged involvement in an Atlanta road gang chargeable for murders, carjackings, and different crimes over the span of a decade. If a jury finds the rapper born Jeffery Lamar Williams responsible, he might face years—presumably many years—in jail.

The federal government claims that YSL—Younger Thug’s rap collective and label, often known as Younger Stoner Life—is a legal gang referred to as Younger Slime Life with ties to the nationwide Bloods group. The 56-count gang indictment towards Younger Thug and 27 different alleged members of YSL claims that they’re chargeable for homicide, assault, theft, theft, unlawful gun possession, and unlawful drug possession and gross sales alongside the Cleveland Avenue space since 2012. Prosecutors additionally declare that Younger Thug was the gang chief, dubbed “King Slime,” who popularized YSL by “referring to it in his songs.” The decide has allowed prosecutors to submit a number of track lyrics as proof, a controversial methodology that analysts usually discredit when rap is placed on trial. Thug’s lawyer, Brian Metal, says his shopper has “dedicated no crime in any respect.”

Gunna was arrested for comparable expenses the identical day as Younger Thug. Final December, Gunna was launched from jail after pleading responsible. In the meantime, Younger Thug has maintained his innocence and remained incarcerated. He was denied bond final summer time on account of being dubbed a “hazard to the group.” Following the seven-hour-long bond listening to in Atlanta, Decide Ural D. Glanville additional defined: “They’ve taken proffers from different gang members—people who find themselves on this explicit indictment and others who usually are not on this indictment—that he’s the chief of the gang, he’s harmful, and if he crosses them he’ll kill them or their households.”

Regardless of his authorized state of affairs, Younger Thug has stayed busy engaged on new music. His newest album, Enterprise Is Enterprise, got here out again in June. Since then, he has launched songs together with a model of “Cash” with Juice WRLD and Nicki Minaj, and the only “From a Man,” a part of a twin launch along with his associate, Mariah the Scientist.