Young Thug Judge Reads Explicit Lyrics in Court

The decide in the Young Thug YSL RICO case learn lyrics to one of many Atlanta rapper’s songs in courtroom.

Young Thug’s trial started this week with jury choice. During a listening to on Wednesday (Jan. 4), Judge Ural Glanville went over a macro view of the prosecution’s case for jurors, which included him reciting excerpts from the 2016 Thugger music “Slime Shit.”

“Hey, this that slime shit, hey/YSL shit, hey/Killin’ 12 shit, hey/Fuck a jail shit, hey,” the decide dryly reads on the 1:04:20 mark of the video supplied by the Law&Crime Network. “Cookin’ white brick, hey, hey/I’m not new to this, hey, I’m so true to this, hey I done put a whole slime on a hunnid licks, hey, hey.”

He additionally reads out sections from Yak Gotti’s verse in the identical monotone method.

“Slime or get slimed,” he continues. “In the VIP and I got that pistol on my hip/You prayin’ that you live/I’m prayin’ that I hit/Hey, this that slime shit…Fuck, fuck the police (Fuck ’em), in a high speed.”

Young Thug’s attorneys have been trying to suppress lyrics from getting used in the case all through the method main as much as the trial. They argued that the usage of lyrics “is racist and discriminatory because the jury will be so poisoned and prejudiced.”

Young Thug and 27 different YSL associates have been arrested in May of 2022 and hit with a prolonged indictment that alleges YSL is definitely a violent avenue gang. Young Thug has been tabbed because the ringleader of the group and been charged with eight counts of violating the RICO Act. He additionally faces possession of marijuana with intent to distribute; possession of codeine with intent to distribute; possession of cocaine; possession of a firearm; and possession of a machine gun prices.

While a number of of the folks arrested in the indictment have pleaded out, together with Gunna, Young Thug is taking his probabilities in trial. The trial has been slated to start out on Jan. 9.