Audio of Young Thug in a 2015 police interrogation related to a Lil Wayne tour bus shooting has surfaced online, and in it he was asked about his alleged Bloods affiliation.
In the clip, Thug pleaded with detectives that bars referencing his gang ties found in his music were purely for “entertainment” purposes.
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“Y’all are Bloods, right? Lil Wayne, you and Birdman. All of y’all — I don’t see why the beef makes sense,” a detective grilled Thugger who responded in confused fashion: “A Blood?!”
The detective continued to point to lyrics from Thug’s verses referencing the Bloods but the YSL boss stopped him short with a chuckle: “Man, that is entertainment, man!”
Listen to the clip below:
Another leaked interrogation clip hears the detective asking for Young Thug to break down the meaning behind his lyrics: “No homo, we smoke dicks.”
“The lyric was: ‘No homo, we smoke dicks,’ meaning the blunt that we smoke are big. The blunts that we’re smoking are not regular-sized blunts. That’s the meaning of it,” Thugger explained.
The surfacing of the audio clip comes as the YSL RICO trial gears up to finally get underway after securing a jury.
The Lil Wayne 2015 tour bus shooting was reportedly mentioned in the YSL RICO trial indictment last year as prosecutors claimed the man who shot at the bus, Jimmy Winfrey (also known as Peewee Roscoe), has ties to Young Slime Life (YSL), which reportedly was entrenched in a feud with Weezy at the time.
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Winfrey is also part of the indictment, charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. At the time of the tour bus shooting, both Young Thug and Birdman were listed as co-conspirators, although they were never charged.
Winfrey was ultimately sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the Lil Wayne tour bus shooting, however, his sentence was overturned in 2018.
Earlier this month, Judge Ural Glanville ruled that lyrics will be allowed to be used as evidence against Thug and his co-defendants in the high-profile RICO case.
A full jury was finally seated in the YSL RICO trial at the top of November, almost a year after the jury selection process began. It will include seven Black women, two white women, two Black men and one white man.
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The trial will finally begin on November 27. Young Thug has been behind bars since being arrested in May 2022 having been denied bond multiple times.
