Watch: DA Says Young Thug Is One Of Atlanta’s “top offenders”, Uses Rap Lyrics As Evidence

District Attorney Fani Willis said on Tuesday that Young Thug is one of Atlanta’s “top offenders” who needed to be taken off the streets.

The Fulton County DA said in a news conference Tuesday that Young Thug and the alleged members of YSL operated as a criminal street gang and “commenced to do havoc in our community,” since 2012.

“They are committing conservatively 75% to 80% of all the violent crime in our community,” Willis said. “It doesn’t matter your notoriety or fame, if you come to Fulton County, Georgia, and you commit crimes, you are going to be a target and a focus of this District Attorney’s office.”

Willis said some of the people being indicted could face life in prison.

Williams attorney Brian Steel told Channel 2′s Mark Winne that his client committed no crime.

“I’ll tell you the response to any allegation is Mr. Williams committed no crime whatsoever and we will fight to my last drop of blood to clear him,” he said.

Police said YSL claims affiliation with the national Bloods gang and Williams is one of three alleged YSL Founders.

Officials also said the gang was believed to have started in late 2012 in the Cleveland Avenue area of Atlanta.

“We expect that in coming days weeks and months that we will bring RICO indictments against gang members even top level gang members to make sure that we rid them from our society,” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said in an interview last week.

Christian Eppinger, also mentioned in the indictment, is the same individual accused of shooting Atlanta police officer David Rodgers six times in February and seriously wounding him.

Young Thug is expected to make his first court appearance Tuesday morning.

According to the 56-count indictment, lyrics from Young Thug’s hit single, ‘Ski,’ are being used as evidence. Prosecutors called the songs text “an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.” Specifically, prosecutors recalled the following bars from ‘Ski’ as evidence:

I f**k with slatts and we come to ear rats and I came with fuckin’ piranhas. The indictment also lists, “I tote an FN on me, call Neechi-Neech, it’s a Glock he keep…Duke Rollin’ 60’s, he’s locked in the C’s.

Prosecutors also state that Young Thug released a song titled, “Slatty” which also details his alleged crimes. 

I killed his man in front of his momma, life f**k lil bruh, sister and his cousin.

Authorities also suggest that a few other lyrics from the single prove conspiracy.

I shoot out… kill ’em, not leaving a trace. I had to break in the safe, year, and I didn’t leave a trace. Dissect your body like science class ni**a, gangster cause you got a body, lil ni**a, magazine clips, so you might get your issue, you think you gangster cause you got a pistol, look at my trigger, my trigger start itching, YSL, we going overboard.

In ‘Anybody,’ Young Thug raps:

I never killed anybody but I got something to do with that body. told them to shoot a hundred rounds.

Young Thug’s Social Media Posts Named In RICO Case

The court documents also share multiple photos from social media that were posted by the alleged members of YSL. In one instance, Young Thug posted a photo and tagged YFN Lucci in March of 2019.

In the caption, Young Thug wrote, in part:

yfn if ain like you what u do for your mohter and kids I WOULDVE BEEN KILLED U.

Associates of Thug’s are said to have obtained permission from the rapper to make a second attempt to kill YFN Lucci while he’s currently awaiting trial for murder and racketeering charges.

The indictment claims Williams and YSL member engaged in the activities such as:

• Preserving, protecting and enhancing the reputation, power and territory of the enterprise through acts of racketeering activity including murder, assault and threats of violence;
• Preserving, protecting and enhancing the reputation, power and territory of the enterprise by the posting of messages, images, videos and songs, demonstrating allegiance to the enterprise and a willingness to engage in violence on its behalf;
• Maintaining armed individuals ready and willing to preserve, protect and enhance the reputation, power and territory of the enterprise through the use of violence;
• Obtaining money, weapons and other property through acts of racketeering activity, including robbery, theft and the unlawful sale and distribution of drugs;
• Obstructing law enforcement investigations and court proceedings through witness intimidation and attacks upon law enforcement officers.

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