Metro Boomin has offered fans another update on Young Thug and revealed his longtime friend and collaborator has his thoughts set on his life post release.
Young Metro gave the update via an IG Stories post on Friday (March 10) that saw a throwback photo of him and Thugger in the studio. He hinted at the Young Stoner Life Records founder’s optimism in his caption.
“Talked to [spider emoji] today and just know when he touchdown the whole [earth emoji] gon feel it [bicep flex emoji].”
The update comes a little over a month after Metro Boomin spoke to DJ Drama’s The Streetz Iz Watching podcast about their ongoing communication; and weeks after Young Thug’s ongoing RICO trail suffered another setback.
On February 21, a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution shared an update via Twitter indicating that Judge Ural Glanville is substantially widening the pool of potential jurors in order to find enough who actually qualify.
“Judge Glanville thinks we’ll need 500-600 jurors in the pool after hardships,” reporter Shaddi Abusaid tweeted. “Of those, ‘We’ll need to qualify close to 100 folks.’ before strikes. More groups of jurors being brought in Feb. 24, March 17, April 28 and May 19.”
The jury selection process has been brutal on Thugga since it began on January 9. As the search for jurors drags on, many potential jurors have expressed concern about the length of the trial, as others have ended up being ineligible for jury duty due to strange circumstances.
Shortly after jury selection started, Thug’s lawyer Brian Steele claimed that a potential juror had attempted to reach out to him via email. While the contents of the message weren’t disclosed during the hearing, it was enough for the judge to order an investigation.
Another potential juror found herself in trouble after reportedly skipping court to fly out to the Dominican Republic. Judge Glanville ordered authorities to go to her home and demand she be brought directly to court from the airport. A third juror was dismissed after reportedly calling in sick.
Despite these and other setbacks — including at least two co-defendants and Young Thug himself being accused attempting to smuggle drugs in court — Metro Boomin told DJ Drama in January that the “Best Friend” rapper was staying positive.
“I be talking to him, he’s blessed man,” Metro said. “Anybody know Slime know he got a heart of gold but he got the heart of a warrior at the same time so like, he got his head up. And I pray for him every single day, even since everything first happened, I pray for him every single day.”
He continued, “The day he got locked up he was supposed to be in the superhero video. He had a whole scene set up where he was gonna say the tag and do some other shit. I remember talking to him on the FaceTime, he was like, ‘yeah I’m finna pull up.”
Metro went on to say that they got word of his arrest while they were waiting for him to show up, about 45 minutes after he was supposed to arrive.
“Man that’s my brother I love him to death and he done helped me a lot with a lot of stuff that I been going thru this past year,” Metro continued. “And on my faith I’m confident that he’s gonna be alright.”
Prior to the numerous delays impacting the jury selection process, experts expected the YSL RICO trial to last as long as nine months. No word as to when prosecutors will actually begin presenting their cases against Young Thug and his 13 remaining co-defendants.
Update: He still locked up.
“And They Won’t Let Me Out, They won’t let me out”
U a hating ass 🫢 Rs that’s why black men slaved to the system now I bet u wouldn’t say that shit to his face…. Neither mine and I never met the guy but he has major Impact on thousands of ppls lives in a positive way if he didn’t pull no triggers set that man free #Free🐍tilit’sbackwards 💯
FAAACTS!!!
He’s killed hip hop with that bullshit gay rap that he’s been kicking for more than a decade. That alone should equal prison time. Besides he seems to like it in there. Easy access for him. He can be as free as he wants in there.
How u know Thug Gay u met em I bet you won’t tell Thug that shit face to face
You so dumb 💯💯💯
I plug your momma butt
You mean father. You spelled father wrong… you homo.
I can’t believe the struggle he Goin through . I know it’s a lot. Love,
A,F,Ment.. Alex Fr
anklin
Free young thug and I pray for him everyday and I’ve never met this guy and I’m a big fan of his I’m the one that reached out for help from him and I never could get a response because he was on tour but when he gets out I hope he see this and respond he’ll powerful guy with a family of six including his sister and his mom and his dad and he is a real survivor free young thug
I don’t know brah…but I fuck with that niggah heavy he brings so much flavor to a stale ass music world….free my dawg
What a homo you are. How bout you free your nuts from his mouth already.
Real talk
Young thug I’ve never met I’m from Knoxville Tennessee he has inspired me to be myself and set goals and achieve them all!! Free Jeffery..love always Joshua allen
Fuck all you homo phobia ass idiot if you saw 2 bitches kissing you would love that its so hot if you seen to bitches eating each other pussy or ass thats hot but because a nigga rather be real about who and what he is instead of hiding it because it makes you uncomfortable or afraid which I firmly believe it’s because you can’t accept who and what you are insecure in your own sexual wants cravings and desires but because he keep it a bean with everyone it’s a issue tf man gtfoh with that shit grow the fuck up and man the fuck up if you going to hate find a real legit reason if you got a issue with anything I said pick your feelings because Idgaf about them and if you want to throw hands or pull some steel dont mince word and jaw jack lets get to it
Fuck all you homo phobia ass idiot if you saw 2 bitches kissing you would love that its so hot if you seen to bitches eating each other pussy or ass thats hot but because a nigga rather be real about who and what he is instead of hiding it because it makes you uncomfortable or afraid which I firmly believe it’s because you can’t accept who and what you are insecure in your own sexual wants cravings and desires but because he keep it a bean with everyone it’s a issue tf man gtfoh with that shit grow the fuck up and man the fuck up if you going to hate find a real legit reason if you got a issue with anything I said pick your feelings because Idgaf about them and if you want to throw hands or pull some steel dont mince word and jaw jack lets get to it
Yo on theee real…. Get em… Cuz it goes like this… Hi ther’ imma rapper who is biiig tiiime so I MUST be the leader of said gang (shhhh). Na, really the 5 targeted me and is claiming Imma gang LEADER when really, by at MOST, imma ranking member. I mean, i do sign my checks over to the real leader (fly fly fly) in order to fund tha street … And n return? I get to use my (SuUPPosed) gang status, really ride the shit out a that claim TO ADVANCE MY CAREER AS ALL OF MY Supposedly Gang-gang career peers do. And all my fake ass wannabe slime fans can go around saying they slime… I make it easy and life easy fa me. Y’all know the game… gangland all a facade that you could spray on…Maybe I should keep my (yep, SO-CALLED) GANG STATS UP OUT MY LYRICS… Yo this is what YT IS THINKIN RN. FACTS. eh hem…I mean… The above is a factual statement. Lmfao 4e fknyll proper keep spraying that bullsh. Keep getting extorted and do that lil time(for ya man) 😂😂😂😂
Not 🚫 a smart 🤓 move, bringing vitamins to the Private party @ real 👍🧐💰 gangster 🎯👞👞♂️ talk 🦜🔥🦜🔥.