Young Thug Caught Switching

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SOHH Correspondent Daniel "Jerk" Jenkins talks to The Atlanta Objective's George Chidi about the current R.I.C.O. Case against Young Thug, Gunna & The Entire YSL Family.  https://www.sohh.com/tag/young-thug/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=shorts&utm_id=sohh  #youngthug #gunna #rico

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00:00 Your latest article, which is actually titled,

00:05 called "Switching."

00:10 - Oh God, yeah.

00:12 - Yeah, can you talk a little bit about that?

00:13 I was reading it here earlier, man, very interesting.

00:16 - So yeah, so let me start with this.

00:19 I started seeing YSL show up in indictments

00:23 as an antagonist to YFN last year,

00:28 like in the middle of last year.

00:30 And I started to write about it

00:31 and people started to talk about it.

00:34 And it was super clear to me

00:37 that YSL was probably under investigation.

00:41 I wrote another thing in March

00:46 when the mother of Young Thug's-

00:50 - Yeah, Lakevia Zags.

00:52 - Yes, and I need to say this,

00:54 like this is very, very important to me.

00:56 Like, it looks for all the world,

00:59 like I was wrong about the direct connection

01:03 between Lakevia Jackson's death

01:06 and all of this other stuff that's going on.

01:09 Like, I mean, it might be understandable

01:11 why I would draw the connection,

01:13 but the police and the district attorney's office

01:15 and other folks who were involved are adamant

01:19 that there was no connection.

01:22 And so I want to apologize,

01:24 both to the public and to Jeffrey Williams' family

01:28 for how they made that inference.

01:30 That was a mistake.

01:31 - Understood.

01:32 - Nonetheless, when I wrote that,

01:35 like I have had some sort of like,

01:39 I've had sort of secondhand communication

01:42 with Young Thug's father, like Jeffrey Williams Sr.

01:45 Jeffrey Williams Sr.'s father told a friend of mine,

01:51 I know this is all ridiculous,

01:52 but that Young Thug was aware

01:54 that he was under investigation

01:56 and that it wouldn't be a big deal.

01:57 Like that is what my friend was told

02:00 by Jeffrey Williams' father in like March or April.

02:05 So it should have been completely obvious

02:10 to Jeffrey Williams and the folks that are around them

02:12 that at some point, the cops are gonna knock on your door.

02:17 I said 10 days or so, well, 20 days

02:22 before the arrests, I asked the district attorney

02:26 about Young Thug and Gunna and Unfunk by name,

02:31 are you coming to arrest them?

02:33 And the district attorney didn't say no.

02:37 So I'm looking at all of this and then the cops come

02:44 and they find like 20 bottles of promethazine syrup

02:49 and a bunch of illegal THC stuff.

02:52 Like from a firm that's actually in North Carolina

02:54 that's marketing under YSL.

02:56 Like a guns galore with a guy in the house

03:00 that can't be in possession of a firearm.

03:03 That's not Thug, that's one of the other guys.

03:05 And a switch, and a switch.

03:09 And a switch is a Glock handgun that's been modified

03:14 to fire as an automatic weapon.

03:16 - It's the term, got it.

03:19 - Yeah, you pull the trigger once

03:22 and it's 30 bullets in two seconds.

03:25 It's a useless weapon, it is garbage as a weapon.

03:30 And I say that as a guy who's an expert marksman

03:32 and I served for five years in the army.

03:34 This thing is designed to kill bystanders.

03:41 Like it's crap as an actual weapon.

03:44 The only reason you'd have it is because you wanna say

03:48 I'm a gangster in possession of an illegal firearm.

03:51 Like just having that, not using it, just having it

03:56 opens you up to a 10 year federal sentence.

04:02 - It's federal there, right?

04:03 Yeah, it's definitely federal.

04:05 - And so I'm looking at this like you just opened the door

04:08 for the FBI to care about this case

04:10 where they didn't before.

04:12 And so I'm sitting here and I'm screaming at my computer,

04:16 why would you have let somebody put that in your house?

04:21 Like, what are you doing?

04:25 Like, because like I get a picture

04:30 where all the lyrics get thrown out.

04:32 Maybe the defense gets lucky

04:34 and get some of the other evidence thrown out

04:37 because maybe the wiretaps aren't legal

04:40 or they've got an informant who's impeachable as a witness

04:43 and they gotta get rid of him or something, I don't know.

04:47 Suddenly the case falls apart, but nope, switch.

04:51 Like all they have to do is prove it was in the house.

04:56 And young thug as the guy on the rental agreement

04:59 goes to jail.

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