Young Thug, 33, has been released after pleading guilty to one gang charge, three drug charges and two gun charges in his racketeering case. The rapper also entered a no contest plea deal to a separate gang-related charge and a racketeering conspiracy charge. He was arrested in 2022 and was booked in the Fulton County Jail. Young Thug’s (real name: Jeffrey Williams) arrest was the result of 56-count grand jury indictment that included 28 members and associates of his label and imprint YSL.
Find out more about Young Thug and his life in the music scene below.
Young Thug Broke Into the Hip-Hop Scene in 2014
He released the singles “Stoner” and “Danny Glover” after he signed with Gucci Mane‘s 1017 Records and released a debut mixtape in 2013. He also appeared on several other singles, including T.I.‘s “About the Money”, Tyga‘s “Hookah”, and Rich Gang‘s “Lifestyle” and released other mixtapes over the years. His debut studio album, So Much Fun, was eventually released in 2019.
Young Thug speaks to Judge Whitaker:
“I take full responsibility for my charges… through these last two and a half years of my life, you are truly the best thing that's happened to me.”pic.twitter.com/iDwFGtPeEK
— Complex Music (@ComplexMusic) October 31, 2024
He Has Won Several Awards
The talented star is the owner of several American Music Awards as well as an MTV Video Music Award and several UK Music Video Awards. He also won a Grammy Award for his song with Childish Gambino called “This is America.”
Young Thug Has 6 Children
He fathered his kids with four different women. Coming from a large family himself (he’s one of 11 children), the dad talked about the struggles of fatherhood in an interview with GQ. “They ain’t easy. It be like, ‘If I could take this back? Yes, what the f*ck was I thinking!’” he told the outlet in 2016.
“…It’s not even taking care of the kids,” he continued. “The main part is you won’t be able to do what you always did. That’s the number one rule to having a kid: You can’t be who you were.”
He Has Been Involved in Philanthropy Work
Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, joined the #fightforpoverty campaign in in Dec. 2016 and once in 2017, he donated all his sold out concert’s proceeds to Planned Parenthood. “I was a teenage parent. Planned+unplanned parenthood is beautiful,” he wrote about the donation on Twitter.
A Mother to 1 of His Children Died
LaKevia Jackson, with whom Young Thug shared a 14-year-old son, was shot and killed at the age of 31 over a reported bowling ball dispute at the Metro Fun Center in Southwest Atlanta in March 2022. Young Thug and the late mother met and dated in Atlanta before he became famous for his rap career, according to LeKevia’s mother.