American rapper Young Thug was released Thursday after pleading guilty to gang involvement. It thus ended almost two years of a sprawling trial for organized crime punctuated by dramatic events.
Real name Jeffery Lamar Williams, the 33-year-old artist has been released from custody, public documents from the Georgia state prison system show. According to the New York Times, he was sentenced to 15 years of probation in addition to time served since his arrest in May 2022.
The rapper was released after pleading guilty in a court in Atlanta, Georgia’s capital, to six charges, including possession of drugs and firearms and engaging in organized criminal activity.
The arrest in May 2022 of the singer of ‘Best Friend’, ‘Hot’ or ‘Check’, crowned with a Grammy Award in 2019 as co-author of the ‘best song’ of the year, ‘This is America’, had been a shock to Atlanta’s influential hip-hop scene.
Young Thug has collaborated with the biggest names in rap and pop, from Drake to Travis Scott, including Dua Lipa, Justin Bieber and Elton John.
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