Young Thug is reflecting on last year’s decision to take a plea deal to finally bring an end to his long-running and controversial RICO trial.
While the plea saw Thugger immediately released from jail, it came with a lengthy probation period that also banned the rapper from the metro Atlanta area and poses restrictions on his lyrical content.
Breaking his probation can also land Thug back behind bars to serve a 20 year sentence.
In a new interview with GQ, the rap superstar has been contemplating his decision to accept the plea and was asked if he found it difficult to make.
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He replied: “Absolutely. Just pleading to something you know that you didn’t do is crazy. But you get a chance to keep fighting. [You can] worry about the jury’s fate, or you [can] just go ahead now and go home. It’s like shit. Go home.”
Thug also discussed what he was banned from rapping about due to the plea deal: “I can’t do nothing like gang things or stuff like that on the internet. I can really talk about what I want to talk about in music. I normally rap about cool things. I just got a few lyrics where I just rap about street stuff and those are the lyrics that they tried to use against me. But most of the time I don’t rap about that type of stuff.”
He also blasted the decision to ban him from visiting Atlanta as “abuse”.
In more positive reviews, Thugger recently dropped his first lead single since his release from jail in the form of Future collaboration “Money on Money”.
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It is the first taste of highly-anticipated new album Uy Scuti, which is scheduled to drop on May 9 and was notable for including several lines seemingly aimed at Gunna.
On the song’s hook, Thug raps: “These fuck n-ggas tellin’ for nothin’, and I gotta be the one callin’ ’em friends,” seemingly referencing the YSL artist’s own decision to take a plea deal.
He later spits: “Brother, you a rat (My brother).”
Thugger also reiterated the accusation in a subsequent verse: “Twin, you a rat, you smoked, uh.”
