Young Thug has given Lil Baby an ultimatum over the release of his upcoming album It’s Only Me from behind bars.
Taking to Twitter on Monday (October 10), the currently incarcerated rapper told Baby to release his new album this week. If not, their friendship could be jeopardized.
“Wham if you don’t drop in 3 days we ain’t bruddas,” he wrote in a tweet.
Lil Baby’s It’s Only Me is scheduled to be released on Friday (October 14) via Quality Control Music/Motown Records.
As revealed earlier this week, the project clocks in at 23 songs and boasts guest appearances from Future, Pooh Shiesty, EST Gee, Nardo Wick, Jeremih, Rylo Rodriguez and Fridayy.
Young Thug, who has been in jail since May on racketeering charges stemming from a RICO indictment against his YSL collective, also appears on a song called “Never Hating.”
Young Thug and Lil Baby’s relationship runs deep, with Thug being the person responsible for Baby starting his rap career after paying him to stay out of the streets.
“I was in the neighborhood and he was like, ‘What you doing in the neighborhood?’ I was like, ‘You already know what I’m doing,” Lil Baby told The Breakfast Club in 2020.
“So he was like, ‘Okay, how much money are you gonna make today?’ I was probably going to make like $7,000, maybe $10,000. He just went, ‘I’ll give you that – just go to the studio.’ Shit went like that.”
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In 2021, Young Thug spoke more about his role in helping Lil Baby make a career for himself and keeping him out of prison.
“I just didn’t want him to go back to prison,” Thug told The Breakfast Club. “I was scared for him to go back to jail ’cause he had just did a bid. He got straight outta jail and went straight back to the same neighborhood. The same house that the police bust and locked him up. He went right back to the same house. It was a spot. I think I was more scared for him, of like prison.
“Before rap, he was getting a lot of likes on his Instagram. He had nice ass captions. Like bro, you should try to make a song. Just show him the life, took him a few times everywhere. You know? He started seeing, this shit kinda easy. We grew up together, too. It makes it seem like it’s easy if he seen me do it.”
Imagine that! Unless you do this or that we ain’t brothers? So Thug will always tell Lil Baby that! Bahahaha
Unless you drop the album soon we ain’t brothers. Bahahaha
Soon Lil Baby will drop his next single “I don’t need to have brothers.” Bahahaha
I dont get it. Is this for real ? Or just a joke ? Isnt that decision up to his label ? Do young people really use social media to handle personal business for the whole world to read ? If somebody did that to me, id be like fuck them, no matter what they did for me in the past. What he could have posted is “give me a call, we need to talk”.
Calm down… im sure he didnt mean it literally
You would let something like that blind you for the things someone did for you? Especially things that were from the heart and not wanting you to be in a bad spot you, would let that all go to hell because he asked to drop it a few days earlier? Bro you don’t deserve no kind of kindness, and I believe if he does do what his big homie wants him to do more of his fans would actually buy it due to loyalty. PS… you ain’t got no loyalty bro. You one of them folks that even if helped a thousand times and got wrong one time would be stuck on that one and forget about the thousand. Fake as a $3 bill.
I thought the same thing, why would YT put something like this out in public…for everybody to see??? This is Business. To be handled privately. At least I thought.
BRUUH, I DONT THINK THUGG CAN JUST TAKE CALLS WHENEVER HE WANT, BEIN LOCCED UP AN ALL!! THE FUCC WRONG WIT U CLOWNS MAN!!
Beyond this point Lil Baby doesn’t even need more Young Thug features. Drop more solo joints, Lil Baby. Your name carries enough weight to make moves.
He should move how he was instructed
Lil Baby is hot right now!!! He’s at his peak. I enjoy that Bankroll Freddie ft Young Dolph & Lil Baby “Drip like this”
I Wish lil baby Drop master piece called I dont need brother ?
Yall slow he didn’t really mean it like that it was a tease he happy for dude and baby a real 1 he a sho love
That shit is fucking beautiful. More men in the hood need to be better examples like that.
Jeffrey left..he’s gone accept it. And lil’ baby might be one of the worst rappers ever or tied with YT.
Fu u ?
How does three quarters of the people reading this article and commenting, actually believe Young Thug meant this seriously? Grumbling about how to do business, and who’s a real friend, and who’s loyal… what the fuck? -MF
They clearly need the $ for all dem legal fees. It’s obvious and thug posting this seems more of a friendly reminder. Imagine the cost of like 27 + rico charges cases. Yikes. God bless.
True, that’s why he gave him such an ultimatum. Like, hurry dude. Drop that album already. I need that cash.