00:00Gunna reacts to Young Thug asking a store to skip his song.
00:03Young Thug reportedly asked a store to skip one of Gunna's songs and it didn't take
00:08long for Gunna to respond. But instead of starting another public feud,
00:12he handled it in a way almost nobody expected and it says a lot about where their relationship
00:16stands now. Let me catch you up. Let's start with the moment that got everyone talking.
00:21Young Thug took the stage at Lyrical Lemonade's Summer Smash Festival last summer and ran through
00:25his catalog for the crowd. When he got to Ski, a song off Slime Language 2 that features Gunna,
00:31something was different. Under normal circumstances, the line goes,
00:34Bitch got a backwood on her nightstand she must be fucking with Gunna. But during this performance,
00:39Gunna's name was muted in the backing track and Thug didn't rap it out loud either. Think about
00:43that for a second. This isn't a deep cut nobody remembers. Ski is a real song off a real album
00:49with Gunna's verse baked into the track. And when it came time to perform it live,
00:53the engineer cut the audio right where Gunna's name should have been. Fans in the crowd caught
00:58it instantly. Clips went up online within hours, with people asking the same question over and over.
01:03Why would Thug erase his own artist from his own song? It wasn't an isolated one-off either.
01:08This fits a pattern Thug had already been building. A few months earlier in November,
01:13he'd posted something on social media that read plainly, telling Gunna to stop acting like they were
01:18friends online and that he didn't even know him. Gunna stop acting like we friends on the internet.
01:23I don't know you my guy, the tweet read. He deleted it fast, but not fast enough. Screenshots were
01:28already circulating and the internet doesn't forget a deleted tweet. It just archives it.
01:32So now you've got two data points. A public tweet cutting Gunna off, followed months later by a
01:37literal muting of Gunna's voice on a live stage. Two separate moments. Same message. I'm done with you.
01:43Gunna didn't respond right away. For months he said nothing, at least not directly. But then came his album,
01:49The Last One, released as what's reportedly Gunna's final project under Young Thug's YSL records.
01:54Buried on a track called Prototype, Gunna finally addressed it. In the song, Gunna seemingly responded
02:00to Thug's deleted tweet, claiming the name drop must have been a typo. Rapping.
02:05N.A. had tweeted my name. Musta had to be a typo. That's the reaction. Not a diss track. Not
02:11a press
02:12interview. A single bar, tucked into an album track, sarcastically brushing off the tweet as an
02:18accident. Fans immediately connected the dots. Many listeners interpreted the line as a direct
02:23response to the now infamous tweet. And the timing wasn't lost on anybody either. The context and the
02:29timing suggested the bar was intentional, dropped on what could be his last album on the label Thug
02:34built. Now Gunna wasn't the only one who had something to say about all this. This whole situation
02:40has been dragging other names into it too. Take Lil Baby and Lil Durk. Both of them were close with
02:45Thug going back years. And both of them made their feelings about Gunna known publicly. Lil Baby and
02:51Lil Durk, both close collaborators of Thug, publicly denounced Gunna for his Alfred plea in December 2022,
02:58which got him out of having to attend trial and freed him from jail. That's two more major artists in
03:04the same circle who took Thug's side before Thug had even started muting songs. Then there's the
03:09interview trail. Thug sat down for GQ back in April and got asked point blank where things stood with
03:16Gunna. He didn't bite. I know everybody wonders what our relationship is like now, Thug said,
03:21before adding, I don't know. No elaboration, no follow-up, just a shrug dressed up in words.
03:28That kind of answer only fuels more questions, and it did. And then you've got the leaked jail calls,
03:33which brought a fourth voice into this whole thing. 21 Savage. Alleged leaked phone calls of
03:39Young Thug speaking to 21 Savage from jail hit the internet, all but confirming that the once fruitful
03:44relationship between Gunna and Young Thug was no more. Savage wasn't dragged into this as a combatant.
03:50He was just a person on the other end of the line, while Thug vented about everything falling apart.
03:55But his presence in those calls made the story bigger than a two-man beef.
03:59It became something the whole Atlanta rap scene was watching unfold in real time.
