{"id":882,"date":"2023-11-27T17:08:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T17:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/young-thugs-ysl-rico-trial-what-to-know\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T17:08:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T17:08:45","slug":"young-thugs-ysl-rico-trial-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/young-thugs-ysl-rico-trial-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Thug\u2019s YSL RICO Trial: What to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"css-kypbrf eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-35caa8d7\">Who is Jeffery Williams, a.k.a. Young Thug?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Williams, 32, is one of modern Atlanta\u2019s rap icons, having <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/11\/arts\/music\/weathering-young-thugs-tornado.html\" title=\"\">remade the genre in his image<\/a> over the past decade. Combining psychedelic experimentalism in voice, melody, lyricism and fashion with a hardened street edge and a sneaky pop sensibility, Mr. Williams has earned three No. 1 albums on the Billboard chart and collaborated widely with musicians including Drake, Kanye West, Future and Travis Scott.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2018, as a featured artist, Young Thug reached No. 1 on the singles chart with the singer Camila Cabello\u2019s \u201cHavana.\u201d The following year, he won a Grammy for song of the year as a writer of Childish Gambino\u2019s \u201cThis Is America,\u201d the first rap song to win that award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The 10th of 1l children, Mr. Williams was raised in the Jonesboro South housing projects and along the desolate South Atlanta corridor Cleveland Avenue. He founded YSL in the area around late 2012, according to court documents, in association with two other men, both of whom have pleaded guilty in the case.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-kypbrf eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-70c58dc6\">What exactly is Mr. Williams charged with?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The case centers on the Jan. 10, 2015, killing of Donovan Thomas Jr., known as Nut or Big Nut, in a drive-by shooting. Mr. Thomas, according to law enforcement, was a high-ranking member of another Bloods subset known as the Inglewood Family, or IF, as well as a behind-the-scenes connector in Atlanta rap music affiliated with the artists Rich Homie Quan and YFN Lucci.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Willis, the district attorney, said that Mr. Thomas\u2019s killing led to a gang war that \u201ccreated violence like Atlanta has never seen,\u201d including more than 50 violent encounters, as YSL and its allies traded attacks with IF members and their affiliates in the crew known as YFN. (YFN Lucci, born Rayshawn Bennett, is also awaiting trial following a 2021 RICO indictment against YFN in Fulton County.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/young-thug-ysl-rico-trial.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Jeffery Williams, a.k.a. Young Thug? Mr. Williams, 32, is one of modern Atlanta\u2019s rap icons, having remade the genre in his image over the past decade. Combining psychedelic experimentalism in voice, melody, lyricism and fashion with a hardened street edge and a sneaky pop sensibility, Mr. Williams has earned three No. 1 albums&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/young-thugs-ysl-rico-trial-what-to-know\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Young Thug\u2019s YSL RICO Trial: What to Know&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2023\/11\/27\/multimedia\/27ysl-wtk-wjfm\/27ysl-wtk-wjfm-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-style"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v17.8 (Yoast SEO v22.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Young Thug\u2019s YSL RICO Trial: What to Know - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/young-thugs-ysl-rico-trial-what-to-know\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Young Thug\u2019s YSL RICO Trial: What to Know\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who is Jeffery Williams, a.k.a. 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