In this episode of the Fresh and Fit Podcast, we cover the case of the Young Thug Case. This case is one of the most thorough breakdowns of this case on the internet to date that i ve ever seen and I have a special guest with me as well.
00:01:28.740uh i've done gun trafficking you know anything you could think of i've pretty much done it i started
00:01:34.600my career in laredo texas and i've specialized in doing mexican cartel investigations and human smuggling
00:01:39.060and drugs and then and also arms trafficking and then i went on to uh the miami field office where i did
00:01:45.180um human smuggling and i also did some uh drug trafficking as well with you know columbian
00:01:49.800cartels the bahamas etc so i went from the southwest border to dealing you know southwest border drug
00:01:56.340trafficking to and human smuggling human trafficking etc guns to doing that over here on the atlantic side
00:02:03.260through the caribbean uh in south florida so uh that's a little bit of my training experience i have
00:02:08.320uh definitely a good amount of um investigative experience with doing uh drugs and gang investigations
00:02:14.880as well i've done a land king case in the past uh and uh mexican mafia a whole bunch of stuff and i'll
00:02:21.280be breaking down those cases for you guys as well in the future but just want to give you guys a little
00:02:25.500bit of background in my training my experience uh this is going to be by far the most thorough
00:02:29.380breakdown of this case on the internet to date that i've seen and i hope you guys are ready and i got a
00:02:34.700special guest with me as well can you just introduce yourself to the audience miss uh mystery woman
00:02:38.680mystery woman i'm no mystery uh hey guys it's destiny or quantum y'all know me um yeah i'm just
00:02:46.420helping out today yeah we got a lot to cover guys so she's here helping me out we got song lyrics to
00:02:51.960break down uh i'm actually gonna play the lyrics for you guys if i get demonetized i get demonetized
00:02:57.000it is what it is uh but i think we're gonna be able to do it in a way where um we won't get hit
00:03:02.320with uh the copyright stuff but uh i think we'll be able to get it under fair use so um cool uh let's
00:03:09.520hit these super chats real quick and then we're gonna get right into it because we got a lot to
00:03:12.420cover man and shout to destiny help me out okay so we got a fire stick two bucks here shout out fnf
00:03:16.840shout out d1b oh thank you so much uh anything else destiny we good that's it right now cool and then
00:03:22.840we got it's a echo kensai a new member thank you so much bro and um if you guys don't know uh destiny
00:03:29.140aka quantum she's been on the show multiple times uh you know she she's been growing she was
00:03:34.980delusional and now she's a little bit less delusional all right so uh okay so we'll get
00:03:40.680right into it um and she's been helping me a lot with the song lyrics guys so shout out to her she's
00:03:43.860been here for a few hours now helping me out so um cool so we're gonna get right into it guys
00:03:49.160so first and foremost who is young thug right so i'm gonna go ahead and share screen here
00:03:55.240okay screen inception so here we go so young thug guys jeffrey lamar williams born august 16 1991
00:04:03.080known professionally as young thugs an american rapper singer and songwriter he's considered
00:04:06.720to be an influential figure of this generation with his music impacting the modern sound of hip
00:04:11.240hop and trap music known for his eccentric vocal style and fashion thug initially released a series
00:04:15.820of independent mixtapes beginning 2011 with i came from nothing in early 2013 he signed with gucci
00:04:20.7601017 records and later that year he releases label debut mixtape 1017 thug to critical praise
00:04:27.300uh young thug received mainstream recognition in 2014 with the single stoner and danny glover in
00:04:31.880addition to appearances on several singles including ti's about the money tigers hookah and rich gang's
00:04:36.920lifestyle that year he also signed to leora cohen's 300 entertainment and collaborated on the
00:04:41.660mixtape rich gang the tour part one in 2015 he amassed a number of mixtapes including barter six
00:04:46.460and two installments of his slime season series uh subsequently in 2016 thug issued commercial
00:04:52.100mixtapes i'm up slime season three and jeffrey in 2017 thug featured on the hit song havana by
00:04:57.820cuban pop singer camilo cabella which became his first number one single on billboard hot 100 so
00:05:02.760clearly guys this dude is very accomplished okay uh in 2018 he released a compilation album slime
00:05:07.880language with his label ysl records in 2019 he won the grammy award for song of the year
00:05:12.460for songwriting contribution on this is america uh young thug's debut studio album so much fun 2019
00:05:18.280debuted at number one uh on the u.s billboard 200 and included the billboard 100 top 20 singles of
00:05:23.520the london and hot the following year a single go crazy with chris brown from the collaborative
00:05:27.100mixtape slime and b 2020 peaked at number three on the hot 100 becoming his first top 10 single
00:05:33.080as a lead artist okay additionally reached number one on billboard hot 100 for the second time in his
00:05:38.800career with this feature on travis scott's single franchise 2021 thug released the compilation album
00:05:43.740slime language 2 which debuted at number one on billboard 200 later that year thug would reach
00:05:48.100number one on hot 100 a third time by featuring alongside future on drake's two way sexy way too
00:05:54.080sexy his second studio album punk was released october 15 2021 debuted at number one on the billboard
00:05:59.300200 becoming his third number one album as well as a second chart topping project of 2021
00:06:04.700god damn we got to give him don demarco because he is very well established guys most rappers will
00:06:12.560never reach this level of success so this guy is accomplished i mean me myself as a hip-hop fan
00:06:19.220i'm not gonna lie to you guys i don't listen to young thug but you would be crazy to not be able to not
00:06:24.020acknowledge his accomplishments and how he influenced the game uh you know people have known about slime
00:06:29.120and everything else like that prior to young thug right nori i know was talking about it back in
00:06:33.360early 2000s but if we're gonna talk about making a mainstream where people are here wiping their
00:06:38.160nose and doing all the other stuff young thug was one of the pioneers for it obviously there's a lot
00:06:42.300of joy rappers that did it as well but uh young thug is probably one of the biggest can i say something
00:06:46.820about that really yeah go ahead just the nose thing so actually i saw this uh little nose swipe
00:06:51.820deal on tiktok and my niece and i made a tiktok and it was in the dance i had no idea it was even
00:06:58.780correlated whatsoever um so it's really interesting to read about that earlier yeah it's a
00:07:03.260has a way more nefarious uh background but i'll break that down in a second wiping your nose
00:07:07.520um and then we got uh your boy gunna sergio giovannis uh kitchens born june 14th 1993 known
00:07:15.260professionally as gunna is an american rapper he assigned to young thugs record label
00:07:18.360while so records as well as 300 entertainment and atlantic records he released his debut studio
00:07:23.420album drip or drown in 2019 and followed up with his second studio album wanna in 2020 which
00:07:29.080debuted atop the billboard 200 his third album ds forever was released in 2022 this one right here
00:07:34.780guys which is what's out right now uh becoming his second consecutive number one album so both these
00:07:39.940guys are accomplished artists guys okay so um now they recently got arrested guys about a week ago
00:07:46.820okay about a week ago from someone else that got arrested for rico charges by the state uh bobby
00:07:51.600smurda uh so let's uh shout out to hip-hop daily this summarizes what's been kind of going on
00:07:57.020uh we're not gonna play the whole video we're just gonna play a portion of it guys and we got as
00:08:01.220you guys can see all these tabs that i got here are a bunch of different pieces of evidence videos
00:08:06.280and uh yeah we got a lot to go through so let's uh let's play this thing here man shout out to hip-hop
00:08:10.400daily fair use uh good content go ahead and make sure to like the video man subscribe to this channel
00:08:15.760and also guys like this video and subscribe to this channel and let's get cracking here uh is a
00:08:21.300certified rap legend you may have a difference give me ones in the chat guys if the sound is good
00:08:26.280okay i want to make sure that there's no echo or anything like that sound and dress crazy but thug
00:08:31.120is really from the streets over the years he's been for other artists and now it's coming back
00:08:35.340around to him thug gunna and 26 other ysl affiliates have been named in a 56 count indictment
00:08:41.240okay put them all the way for life okay there's there's uh echoes guys is that what they're saying
00:08:45.640destiny yeah it's it's a little staticky actually staticky okay hold on so
00:08:51.100okay so let me right here's what's happening so what i'm gonna do i'm gonna refresh this guys
00:09:02.500give you one sec or you know what i'll play it on firefox actually i'm gonna try it one more time
00:09:09.400guys let me know if it gives you static if it does then i'm gonna play this thing on firefox
00:09:13.180is a certified rap legend he may have a different sound and dress crazy but thug is really from the
00:09:18.640streets over the years they're still static no it sounds better it's better now okay he's been for
00:09:23.440other artists and now it's coming back around to him thug gunna and 26 other ysl affiliates have
00:09:29.280been named in a 56 count indictment that could put him all the way for life here's what's happening
00:09:33.460on monday may 9th young thug's crib in atlanta was rated by police cops tore his house apart
00:09:39.540taking walls down and digging up his yard for evidence thug was booked in the fulton county jail
00:09:44.120on conspiracy to violate the racketeer influence and corrupt organizations act and participation
00:09:48.880in criminal activity all right so let's go through that because i actually have this indictment right
00:09:52.960here guys so uh let's read this part real fast together all right um so let me share a screen with
00:10:01.800y'all real fast so so how was the sound on that one were they giving it a little bit of static
00:10:07.260a little bit it was better than the first time okay i'll just make sure i refresh every time i
00:10:12.100play so here's the indictment here guys all right so um is this thing flashing on y'all hold on there
00:10:17.500we go all right i don't know why it's acting crazy like that all right so uh here we go guys state of
00:10:21.700georgia okay and you as you guys can see this is a 88 page indictment we're not going to go through
00:10:26.260all of it but the big thing is i'm just going to go over the the general um concepts that they're
00:10:32.260using here okay so these are all the people that are indicted 28 people okay and as you guys can
00:10:38.040see this is a state indictment i'm going to break down here the differences between state and federal
00:10:42.120in a second uh between rico but let's go ahead and um talk about number one uh the conspiracy okay
00:10:49.960as associates of the enterprise young young slime life here and after referred to as ysl the defendants
00:10:55.660conspired to associate together and with others for the common purposes of illegally obtaining
00:11:01.040money and property through a pattern of racketeering activity and conducting and
00:11:05.500participating in the enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity and furthers of the
00:11:09.340conspiracy the defense engaged in activities enumerated herein the objectives of the conspiracy
00:11:14.120included were not limited to preserving protecting enhancing the reputation power and territory of
00:11:19.100enterprise through acts of racketeering activity including murder assault and threats of violence
00:11:24.320preserving protecting enhancing the reputation power and territory of the enterprise by posting of
00:11:29.440Messages, images, videos, songs, demonstrating allegiance to the enterprise and a willingness to engage in violence on its behalf.
00:11:35.340Guys, make a note of all this because this is all going to become very important when I start showing you guys the evidence of what the state actually has against them.
00:11:40.780OK, 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,
00:11:52.640including robbery, theft and the unlawful sound distribution of drugs and obstructing law enforcement investigations and court proceedings through witness intimidation and attacks upon law enforcement officers.
00:12:03.700OK, the enterprise. OK, so they're identifying the enterprise, which is YSL.
00:12:09.940OK, is an enterprise consisting of a group of individuals associated, in fact, although not a legal entity.
00:12:16.500YSL constitutes an ongoing organization whose members function as a continuing unit for the common purpose of achieving the objectives of the enterprise.
00:12:24.480OK, so now they're going to go into the history of these guys.
00:12:27.200YSL is a criminal street gang that started in late 2012 in the Cleveland area of Atlanta, Georgia.
00:12:32.520YSL claims affiliation with the National Bloods Gangs.
00:12:35.360OK, now, guys, what do we know about the Bloods? The Bloods Gang is a gang that's been here in the United States since the 60s.
00:12:41.100OK, it was originally created right around the civil rights era, you know, as a way to protect neighborhoods from racism, et cetera.
00:12:47.640And then, you know, it morphed into a bit more nefarious.
00:12:51.680And you got the Bloods and the Crips that started out in the South California area, the L.A. area, and it spread all over the United States.
00:12:59.180And now it's a global gang. OK, and it has strong ties in Atlanta, Georgia as well.
00:13:04.780OK, so YSL founders were Jeffrey Williams, a.k.a. Young Thug, a.k.a. Slime, Walter Murphy, a.k.a. DK, and Trontavia Steffens, a.k.a. Tick.
00:13:15.940OK, and we're going to be hearing about these guys quite a bit in the lyrics. OK, a.k.a. Slug.
00:13:20.640Jeffrey Williams, an Atlanta-based hip-hop artist, made YSL a well-known name by referring to it on its songs and social media.
00:13:27.200All right, so now we're going to go into the identifiers real quick.
00:13:29.840And guys, this is all very important because everything that they're going to be charging YSL with is based on this stuff right here.
00:13:36.720They're identifying them as an enterprise that is involved in racketeering activity.
00:13:40.920What is racketeering activity? It's murder, robbery, acts of violence, intimidation tactics, whatever it may be.
00:13:47.060And I'm going to go into the differences here in a second between the RICO, right, and when it's states versus RICO when it's federal.
00:13:54.880All right. YSL associates use a variety of identifiers, including colors, clothes, tattoos, and hand signs, as well as verbal and written identifiers.
00:14:04.660YSL claims affiliation with the National Bloods Gang, and some associates also claim the Bloods Subset Gang, Sex, Money, Murder, or 30 Deep, which we're going to talk about this here in a second.
00:14:12.720OK, 30 Deep is out of the New Orleans area.
00:14:16.000OK, YSL associates often display their colors by wearing a green or red bandana on their person, a practice known as flagging.
00:14:23.380YSL associates often wear clothing with the letters YSL or the word slime printed on them.
00:14:28.860YSL associates also often wear pendants displaying the letters YSL or the word slat.
00:14:34.360The most predominant YSL colors are red for bloods and green for slime.
00:14:39.500YSL associates use a variety of hand signs.
00:14:41.600One of the most common hand signs, wiping the nose with the index finger, OK, like this, OK?
00:14:46.160OK, another frequently used YSL hand sign consists of curling the ring and pinky finger inward toward the palm while extending the index and thumb with the middle finger slightly curved.
00:14:59.560The extended middle and index, Destiny, go ahead, try to figure that gang sign out.
00:18:24.080Oh, Karan Kaur dropping in show my support. Shout out to FNF team.
00:18:27.740Thank you so much, guys. And also, I know you guys might say, man, that's a lot.
00:18:30.780That's really redundant. I already know about the Crips and Bloods, whatever.
00:18:33.400Keep in mind, guys, that we have a lot of international viewers that might not be aware of American pop culture and or American gangs.
00:18:39.100So I'm explaining it for anyone to understand. OK, so if it's a little bit redundant, you know, please excuse that.
00:18:45.640But we do have a lot of international viewers that really are fascinated by the hip hop and gang culture here in the United States.
00:18:50.060So I want to make sure they understand. OK, primary locale.
00:18:53.500YSL Associates are predominantly active in Southeast Atlanta and the Cleveland Avenue area, but are expanding their activities into the surrounding metropolitan Atlanta area.
00:19:00.360OK, acts and furtherance of the conspiracy. So this is guys now they're going to start getting into the actual dates of crimes.
00:19:09.420OK, so we got crimes occurring all the way back in fucking 2013, and they've been looking at these guys since 2012, guys.
00:19:15.220So we're looking about 10 years. All right. And there's already four thousand y'all in here.
00:19:18.540So like the video and let's keep going.
00:19:23.260So I'm going to keep playing the Hip Hop Daily video. Shout out to them.
00:19:26.420But now you guys know what YSL is, what SLAT is, what BLAT is, what Bleveland Avenue is, etc.
00:19:33.320All right. Can we clarify something really? Yeah, go ahead.
00:19:36.220I had someone in the chat ask something about the brand YSL that has no association with.
00:19:56.840So he goes into the indictment here a bit so we can go ahead and fast forward a little bit.
00:20:04.460The gang has engaged in all kinds of criminal activity over the years, including murder, attempted murder, drug dealing, carjacking and even shooting at Lil Wayne's tour bus back in 2015.
00:22:07.560OCGA, OK, 16-14-4 outlines four ways a person can be guilty of violating the racketeering statute.
00:22:13.620By directly or indirectly acquiring or maintaining any interest in or control any enterprise real property or personal property through a pattern of racketeering or the proceeds derived from the activity.
00:22:25.220So now you guys see why they're so hell bent on calling it an enterprise.
00:22:28.340OK, that's the prerequisite that's needed for Rico, both federal and state.
00:22:32.660First, by directly or indirectly participating enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity while being employed by or associated with the enterprise.
00:22:40.500Guys, this could be as simple as throwing up a gang sign with another known member.
00:22:45.440OK, three, by associating or endeavoring to directly or indirectly acquire or maintain any interest in or control of any enterprise real property or personal property through a pattern of racketeering activity or the proceeds derived from a pattern of racketeering activity.
00:22:57.860Or by conspiring or endeavoring to directly or indirectly participate in an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity while being employed by or associated with the enterprise.
00:23:06.400So as you guys can see, it's very broad.
00:23:08.780OK, so whether you're an associate, you actually have a verified gang member.
00:23:17.260However, since he was funding the gang, since he was involved with the gang, he was rocking bandanas, all that other stuff.
00:23:23.660They were charged him as if he was a gang member.
00:23:25.800All right. So so there are many crimes that can be used to show a pattern of unlawful conduct.
00:23:32.600The predicate crimes that fall under the RICO statute in Georgia include drug offenses, homicide, bodily injury, arson, burglary, forgery, theft, prostitution, obscene materials, bribery, witness tampering, perjury, evidence tampering, commercial gambling, distilling liquors and alcoholic beverages.
00:23:46.360Firearm violations, security violations, credit card fraud, computer crimes, kidnapping, car checking and making terroristic threats.
00:23:51.820Extremely broad, extremely broad, guys, which you guys are going to see components of all these things in this indictment.
00:23:56.820All right. So and we don't have to go through all of this, guys.
00:24:01.620I'm going to go ahead and put hold on.
00:24:04.460There was because there is a difference.
00:24:27.120OK, I'll just go off the top of the head here because I understand.
00:24:29.520I know the difference between federal and state RICO anyway.
00:24:31.980OK, so the thing with RICO, guys, for the state versus the feds is simply put, if I'm going to just distill it for y'all, is that.
00:24:42.200With the feds, you need a lot more evidence like the overt acts have to be like pretty damn strong.
00:24:50.280OK, and then on top of that, you need to affect interstate commerce.
00:24:53.780OK, now what is affecting interstate commerce?
00:24:55.460Well, it's let's say you're committing crimes in one part of the country and then maybe you're using a telephone to order hits or you're traveling across state lines or you're smuggling things across state lines, whether it's gun or contraband or whatever it may be.
00:25:09.060All these things affect interstate commerce.
00:25:12.640And once you affect interstate commerce, guys, bam, now the feds are going to be involved in this investigation.
00:25:24.040And then the other thing, too, the other thing, too, I want to also mention, guys, is that with the thing that threw me off a little bit was that normally when you have like, you know, affluent rappers like this that are getting charged or whatever it may be, I always look at who the prosecuting agency was.
00:25:40.940And I noticed that no feds were involved in this investigation because we're going to look at the press conference here and the press conference always tells you who pretty much the main agency is.
00:25:48.980So the agencies that investigated this was the Atlanta Police Department and the Fulton County Sheriff's Office.
00:25:53.200All right. And then we got a D.A. or a district attorney that's extremely aggressive that recently got sworn in.
00:25:58.260So they're going to go ahead and be very aggressive as to going after these street gangs.
00:26:03.680Why are they so aggressive going after street gangs?
00:26:05.880Well, because when you take violent criminals off the streets, OK, you're way more likely to be elected because you can go ahead and say, listen, I took this many guns off the street.
00:26:14.160I took this much drugs off the street.
00:26:15.280I arrested these rappers that were responsible for all these violent acts, which we're going to get into here in a little bit.
00:26:20.440And people are going to be more likely to vote for you when you go after violent offenders.
00:26:25.060You know, let's keep it honest. I know this sounds horrible, but no one gives a shit about white collar criminals.
00:26:29.360Right. They still get arrested and everything else like that.
00:26:31.760But it's not as sexy of a case as when you go after gang members that are over here, you know, throwing gang signs, dealing drugs, trafficking guns, shooing people.
00:26:40.240You know, all these other things. All right. So.
00:26:46.200OK, so here's here's another thing here as well.
00:26:48.460So RICO is a crime that has federal statute and a Georgia state statute.
00:26:52.000The Georgia statute defines racketeering more broadly than the federal law does.
00:26:54.940Yeah. A lot of these crimes here, guys, that they mentioned, like terroristic threats, right, like the credit card fraud, all these other things, securities violations.
00:27:03.720These are kind of hard to do on the Fed side. OK, so Georgia is much more broad with it.
00:27:08.840In addition, it takes less to prove a pattern of racketeering activity under the Georgia statute than the federal one.
00:27:14.340However, the largest difference between the two is that Georgia does not always require the existence of an enterprise to constitute racketeering, which is wild to me.
00:27:21.700OK, because if you got when we go through this indictment, you guys are going to notice that there's a lot of like just one off crimes that don't necessarily associate too much with the gang.
00:27:28.840Like we're talking about bullshit, like, you know, maybe a burglary here, a theft here, tinted windows, like all kinds of weird stuff.
00:27:36.500But it's a very broad indictment. It's very obvious that they were going after these guys and they had a hard on for him.
00:27:41.460But yeah, other than that, let's let's go ahead and continue on. You got something?
00:27:47.040Yeah, let's definitely we can go through some chats.
00:27:50.660So hold on. Let me stop sharing screen.
00:27:55.880All right. So we got here free while so we on the yacht with the minorities.
00:28:00.300Hey, shout out to you, Fresh Prince CEO, a.k.a. Walter.
00:34:06.100He is representative of the partnership of the Atlanta Police Department and the DA's office on our aggressiveness and going after gang members.
00:34:17.800The mayor, I'm sorry, the mayor as well as the DA gave a interview on last week expressing their concerns about what we were seeing in our city and how we would go after any offender.
00:34:29.460And at the direction of the DA taking the lead on us yesterday, making sure that we were able to get one of our top offenders off of the street and partnership with them, utilizing our tactical teams.
00:34:52.480Chief Rodney Bryan, as well as my sheriff and our sheriff, Sheriff Patrick LeBot.
00:34:57.520Chief Rodney Bryan, we are here today about a grand jury indictment that was returned that included not just Jeffrey Williams, which is of some notoriety and media attention, but about 28 defendants that operated within our community between the time period of 2012 and 2022.
00:35:17.540It is our allegation that they operated as a criminal street gang and commenced to do havoc in our community that havoc includes crimes of violence, crimes of thefts, crimes involving drugs.
00:35:33.780And remember, guys, Rico with the state is far more broad than the feds.
00:35:37.540I've made no secret about it, nor any apology, that as the district attorney of Fulton County, my number one focus is targeting gangs.
00:35:51.160They are committing conservatively 75 to 80 percent of all of the violent crime that we are seeing within our community.
00:35:59.480And so they have to be rooted out of our community.
00:36:03.380And we're going to talk about the gang violence here in a second, guys, and break those down for y'all.
00:36:06.380I said just a week or two ago, it does not matter what your notoriety is, what your fame is, if you come to Fulton County, Georgia, and you commit crimes, and certainly if those crimes are in furtherance of a street gang, that you are going to become a target and a focus of this district attorney's office, and we are going to prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.
00:36:41.840With Chief Bryant, what you see yesterday and what you will see in the upcoming months and years is the result of a lot of hard work by both the Atlanta Police Department and this office.
00:36:54.580We are proud to bring forth this indictment and hopefully to bring justice to a lot of the community who was victimized through the course you see in this indictment.
00:37:04.920But more importantly, the most important thing that we are here to do is to keep this community safe, and we believe removing these 28 defendants will keep Fulton County safer.
00:37:14.120Again, guys, when you go after violent criminals, you're always going to look better to the public.
00:37:20.780That's why these types of, they want to do these cases.
00:37:23.000So now they're opening it up for reporter questions.
00:39:42.580Now, since this is the state case and they're arrested people all the time, everything else like that, like with the feds, court is Monday through Friday.
00:39:49.080But a lot of times in the state system, court, they can bring you in on weekends, et cetera.
00:39:54.200The state system is a little bit more backlogged than the federal system.
00:39:57.500So but they must bring you in front of a judge.
00:39:59.340So this right here is more than likely his initial appearance.
00:40:03.820The arraignment is the formal court proceeding where they bring you in and you actually enter in your plea, whether it's, you know, guilty, not guilty, et cetera.
00:40:11.580But since he was indicted, they brought him right in.
00:40:14.100So let's go ahead and play this real quick.
00:40:22.800You are here on a bench, what we call our bench for our calendar for Portland County Superior Court.
00:40:28.040Be aware that on this calendar, you are here because you have been indicted under 22SC 182273 for conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act.
00:40:44.540And participation in criminal street gang activity.
00:40:46.540I brought you forward so that you can be put on notice that for the felony charges that you receive, you are to be presented before the judge, the honorable judge, your own Glanville at the next available calendar that will be presented in courtroom.
00:41:03.000Now, you guys are probably wondering, what is an indictment?
00:41:05.320And that's going to be very important here.
00:41:06.440They're going to refer to it throughout here.
00:41:07.820So let me just break it down real fast.
00:41:09.380An indictment, guys, is when a grand jury of your peers meet together, they hear the facts of the case from an investigator and from a prosecutor, and then they return a true bill of indictment or a no bill that, you know, there's a saying, you know, you can indict a ham sandwich.
00:41:24.500By the time you go to grand jury and testify and present your case, guys, you've had enough evidence, you know, because the prosecutor obviously is not going to go to grand jury and convene the grand jury to go ahead and, you know, bring a bullshit case, you know, ahead.
00:41:35.600So a lot of the time, they're going to go ahead and return a true bill of indictment, which is what we saw earlier, guys, when you guys saw those names in there, the grand jury people, and the indictment.
00:41:45.560So he was formally, he's been formally charged.
00:41:48.460This isn't like, you know, you're on the side of the road and they arrest you because they catch you with drugs.
00:41:51.960No, they presented evidence, they convened a grand jury, and they returned a true bill of indictment.
00:41:57.280And that's going to be very important here, and you guys are going to see here in a second why.
00:42:00.180The date at which you are to appear at this time, I am not aware of, but be aware that you have the right to remain in silence and not incriminate yourself while you are there and anywhere else in case you say can be used against you.
00:42:15.700It is my understanding that you are being represented by attorney Ryan Steele and the district attorney's office, Don Geary, are also on.
00:42:24.740So I wanted to make sure that you were fully aware of that.
00:42:30.360Any, and Geary, is there anything else that you would need to add?
00:42:33.520And then I will hear from attorney Ryan Steele.
00:42:37.280Judge, respectfully, I think you've already stated that there's not a bond issue.
00:42:44.960There's not really a first appearance other than you're verifying his counsel, which would handle the first appearance issue.
00:42:52.400One thing I want to put on the record, Judge, and thank you for giving me the opportunity, is at an appropriate time, we're going to file an objection or notice of objection to attorney Steele.
00:43:05.640While he's a brother attorney, he has represented multiple people on the indictment, and we feel that a conflict would exist, and we just want the record clear on that at the appropriate time.
00:43:20.400So basically, one of the attorneys, guys, represented people in the past, and they don't want him involved because when you have large indictments like this where a lot of people have been arrested.
00:43:29.200Sorry, I had it on Destiny that whole time.
00:43:32.780Yeah, but when you have an indictment with that many people on it, it could be a potential conflict of interest because a lot of the times, attorneys will advise their clients in their client's best interest, which nine out of ten times, guys, is going to be at the detriment of their co-defendants.
00:43:49.900One more time so you guys understand that.
00:43:52.020A lot of the time when you get a defense attorney and you have a big conspiracy case like this, especially where you're involved with multiple people, people are doing different types of crimes or whatever may be like that, your defense attorney or the defense attorney is going to do what's in the best interest of their client, which a lot of the times is contrary and to the detriment of their co-defendants.
00:44:08.340They're going to tell you to cooperate.
00:44:41.680My understanding from Uniform Superior Court Rule 26.1H, as in Hillary, that at the first appearance, this honorable court shall consider bond if the offense is not one that is bondable only by a superior court judge.
00:45:05.120But the offense here is Mr. Williams is only indicted on count 56 and count one, which is a criminal street gang activity and a conspiracy to commit racketeering.
00:45:17.740And both of those, I believe, are within your breast to set bond.
00:45:22.420And I would like bond to be heard by your honorable court.
00:46:13.920Attorney Steele, I certainly understand it.
00:46:15.700If I were sitting solely as a magistrate, I believe you would be correct with the stating of the law itself.
00:46:22.320But as I am sitting at Superior Court, Fulton County Delegate, Delegated Judge,
00:46:28.520there's specific delegation order for which I am operating under the indication that the authority to set bail is simply not delegated for any case.
00:46:45.700It's I don't have the authority to give your client bond or get him out because I've been delegated this authority temporarily to just hear this and get you in front of a judge.
00:46:55.300But this is going to be referred to a judge higher than myself because your client has been indicted by a grand jury.
00:47:29.680So unfortunately, you will have to submit your motion for a bond directly to the Superior Court judge that is handling this case, which is Judge Ural Glanville.
00:47:38.840All right, so Doug, he's not going to be able to get out for a bit, okay?
00:47:44.340And I think he did an emergency bond hearing, and they didn't let him out.
00:47:48.460So here is Gunna's initial appearance.
00:48:43.800What is the state asking the court to do, if anything, today?
00:48:47.300The state's position is that because this is a direct indictment, jurisdiction will lie with the Superior Court.
00:48:53.500See, so the Superior Court has the main jurisdiction.
00:48:56.920So he's there for an initial appearance.
00:48:58.960They basically get this judge in, you know, to make sure that they don't violate his due process that he's, you know, brought in front of a judge.
00:49:05.560You know, their judge receives them his rights.
00:50:24.820So now we're going to introduce Gunna's defense counsel, I think, here.
00:50:32.340There's nothing to add on the probable cause.
00:50:34.780Obviously, the indictment has been returned, so we can't challenge the probable cause.
00:50:38.060We do believe that you have the courage.
00:50:39.780Now, if you're indicted, guys, like, if you're not indicted and you're just like, let's say you're arrested through probable cause, like a police officer just arrests you on the side of the road, or they do an affidavit and they arrest you on probable cause alone, it's called a probable cause arrest.
00:50:54.000And what happens is they can do a probable cause hearing.
00:50:57.720And a probable cause hearing is basically they bring that investigator in, you know, whether it's a special agent, it's a state investigator, whatever it is, because the federal and state both have this hearing.
00:52:20.040With regard to, and the only other allegation.
00:52:22.720That's going to come up in the lyrics, guys.
00:52:24.040Someone else in another car had a gun.
00:52:25.560And we're going to talk about that here when I go through the lyrics and I go through the actual document.
00:52:31.080But I just want you guys to kind of get a feel of what they're looking at, what it's like for an initial appearance to occur,
00:52:37.200what the defense is going to argue in the beginning.
00:52:40.000In the beginning, they don't really have much because they're just getting the indictment.
00:52:43.960They don't have the evidence yet against them.
00:52:45.400They're going to do the process of discovery, right?
00:52:47.800Discovery is when the prosecution starts handing over to the defense all the evidence they have against their clients.
00:52:54.880And then the defense and the client pretty much come up with a strategy, whether they're going to fight it, they're going to plead guilty, et cetera.
00:53:01.140Most cases plead out to lesser offenses most of the time, okay?
00:53:06.380The feds win like 95% plus of their cases.
00:54:11.620His mother is sitting across the table from me here in my office.
00:54:15.280Yeah, he went to go see his mom and spend time with his family before he could turn himself in.
00:54:22.160Well, Young Thug, they just raided his joint.
00:54:23.680And then when they raided Young Thug, guys, he actually got hit with a few more charges because they found guns and some other things at his spot.
00:54:28.240And I'll pull that up for you guys here in a second.
00:54:30.500He had no felony convictions of any kind.
00:54:33.640We are sitting here in jail at this point on a RICO allegation involving two motor vehicle offenses plus lyrics.
00:54:55.680We'll we'll we'll we'll keep going in here.
00:54:57.380But before we get into the other stuff, I'll read the chats and then I'll show you guys the new charges that Young Thug got when they raided his house.
00:55:13.180But they refer to each other as what they refer to is YFN when in the court documents you guys are going to see, they're going to refer to it as YFN.
00:55:25.200I hope you guys are enjoying this one, man.
00:55:26.960I'm going I'm being very thorough, systematic, breaking it down for you.
00:55:29.620We're going to get into the evidence here in a second, actually go through the indictment line by line and see what they're actually going after Young Thug for.
00:55:36.620They have quite a bit of things on him.
00:57:49.120And I also pulled up the protective order, guys, because if he mentions anything on Twitter or whatever it may be, he can get arrested for that.
00:57:56.380So right now, Meg controls the narrative and she's, you know, she's smart about it.
00:59:32.320So a quick little recap because a lot of you guys are here right now, and you might not know what happened before.
00:59:36.340We did an introduction on who Young Thug is.
00:59:38.080Then we did an introduction on who Gunna is.
00:59:39.840Then we played the video of Young Thug getting raided.
00:59:44.440We played the, you know, initial appearance for both Young Thug and for Gunna, and then we also delineated, differentiate, talked about the differences between RICO in the state versus the RICO federal.
00:59:59.600This case was investigated by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office and the Atlanta Police Department, you know, which for me, it made me ring a little few bells.
01:00:06.800Normally, when you have a case like this where you have rappers, et cetera, the feds will be all over it.
01:00:11.440So I am a little, how do I say this, confused as to why the feds didn't get involved in this thing.
01:00:18.720I'm thinking that they probably didn't have enough, didn't think it was sexy enough or maybe didn't have enough evidence or whatever.
01:01:06.320Possession of marijuana with intent to distribute VGCSA possession of a Schedule 3 or 5 controlled substance with intent to distribute possession of firearm during commission of a felony possession of a sawed off shotgun, sawed off rifle, machine gun, dangerous weapon or silencer.
01:01:22.700Unlawful for person employed by associated with criminal street gang.
01:01:26.200To conduct participating in criminal activity.
01:01:36.680Possession of a sawed off shotgun, shot off rifle, machine gun, dangerous weapon or silencer.
01:01:40.420And then possession of firearm during the commission of a felony.
01:01:42.600If Young Thug is a felon, OK, I would not be surprised if the feds come in and come in and hit him with a felon in possession of a firearm, which is going to be pretty much a slam dunk case.
01:01:57.020Feds never lose that charge, which it's 18 USC 922G.
01:02:00.220I used to charge that charge myself all the time.
01:02:02.260Anytime I caught a felon with a gun, we'd hit them with that thing.
01:02:05.360And then if we wanted to get them to cooperate, it was a common tactic that we would use to get someone to flip.
01:03:16.020Defender Jeffrey Williams and associate YSL did commit the felony offense of theft by receiving stolen property while when he possessed property to wit a firearm, the property of Ann Phillips that Williams knew or should have known was stolen with the intent of depriving Ann Phillips of said property in violation of Georgia law.
01:03:33.480Oh, G, C, G, A, which is, guys, the Georgia code, by the way.
01:14:34.500Then the next part of the indictments goes, defendant Jeff Williams and associate YSL did rent a 2014 Silver Infiniti Q50 sedan from a Hertz rental car, which was used in the commission of the murder of Donovan Thomas Jr., a rival gang member on the 10th day of January 2015, which is an act of racketeering under the OCGA.
01:14:54.460An overt act and furtherance of the conspiracy.
01:14:57.080So this is one of the more serious charges, guys.
01:14:59.520Because if they're able to actually prove that he did, in fact, rent a car for the purpose of killing him, well, that's almost as bad as actually pulling the trigger.
01:15:21.040We're going to go back to our guy, Hip Hop Daily.
01:15:24.880This is a good video, which breaks down this situation.
01:15:34.500Plus, he allegedly rented a car that was used during the murder of his wife and Lucci's homie, Donovan Big Nut Thomas.
01:15:40.700In January 2015, Big Nut was hidden on the street in Atlanta when someone drove by and started letting off shots.
01:15:47.180Nut was killed, and two innocent bystanders was also hit but survived.
01:15:51.000No one knows for sure who was buying the hit, but some rumors say that YSL was involved.
01:15:55.260Now, Thug's been named for renting a car that was used in the drive-by, and five other YSL affiliates have been charged for murder, including Yak Gotti, who signed the Thug's label.
01:16:03.640And we're going to talk about Yak Gotti here in a bit.
01:16:05.780Even though 28 YSL members have been indicted, Thug's lawyers still claim that it's not a gang.
01:16:10.040His lawyer, Brian Steele, told the New York Times, Mr. Williams comes from an incredible, horrible upbringing, and he's conducted himself throughout his life in a way that it's just to marvel at.
01:17:08.100All right, that guy self-snitched on himself as well.
01:17:10.400Nutt was killed in 2015, facing 15 more charges in his shoulder, once in his knee, and once on the side of his head.
01:17:16.680Bruce was arrested anyway, so he almost killed a cop for no reason.
01:17:19.560And now he's facing 15 more charges and a new indictment, too.
01:17:21.960The indictment says, after Big Nutt was killed in 2015, Briss said in two separate videos that some people get killed, bro, from me and YSL.
01:17:29.960And I never killed anybody, but I got something to do with that body.
01:35:12.960Uh, we got defendants, Sergio Kitchens and Jeffrey Williams associates of YSL did commit the felony offense of theft by receiving stolen property.
01:35:21.380When, while possessing property with a firearm, the property of Trevon Lewis, that Kitchens or Williams knew or should have known was stolen in the intent of depriving Trevon Lewis of said property in violation of Georgia law.
01:35:31.860So you guys are probably wondering, well, how the fuck do they know that the gun is Trevon Lewis's?
01:35:34.680So anytime guys, little breakdown here, anytime a gun is reported a stolen or whatever it may be, it's, um, there's going to be done an E-trace on that firearm.
01:35:44.800And E-trace is done by the alcohol, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Farms and Explosives, AKA the ATF.
01:36:50.620And then bam, now they're able to go ahead and go after you, uh, for having a stolen firearm.
01:36:55.320So this is pretty much how firearms are figured out to be stolen in the United States, guys, because they're all typically tracked through E-trace.
01:37:05.740That's why when you purchase a firearm, that gun is going to be tracked to some degree, unless, you know, you do a private sale or whatever else like that.
01:37:36.180Sergio Kitchens and Jeffrey Williams, associates of YSL, did commit the felony offense of possession of methamphetamine with intended to distribute a controlled substance violation of Georgia law.
01:37:45.340Now, I wish we knew how much it was, but it could have been a small amount.
01:37:50.360All right, again, guys, it's because they're in a gang and they're in possession of the drugs and makes it much worse.
01:37:56.260Okay, if they weren't in a gang, this would be a throwaway charge, more than likely.
01:38:00.720Okay, because they're not listing the weight here, which makes me very curious.
01:38:07.560Defend Sergio Kitchens and Jeffrey Williams.
01:38:09.340Remember, guys, Sergio Kitchens is gonna.
01:38:11.900All right, so this is gonna, and this is Young Thug.
01:38:14.680Okay, did commit the felony offense of possession of hydrocodone with intent to distribute a controlled substance in violation of Georgia law.
01:38:22.300Okay, then we got defendant Sergio Kitchens and Jeffrey Williams, associates of YSL, did commit the felony offense of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute in violation of Georgia law.
01:38:32.500Okay, so they're throwing a book at these guys and notice it's all on the same day.
01:38:35.400So they all got arrested the same day.
01:38:37.100Can you look this up, by the way, this arrest, Destiny, real quick for me?
01:38:44.620Then we got here, again, defense Sergio Kitchens and Jeffrey Williams, associates of YSL, did commit the felony offense of participation of criminal street gang activity when, while associated with a criminal, oh shit, my bad.
01:38:58.240When, while associated with a criminal street gang to wit, YSL, participate in criminal street activity through the commission of at least one of the offenses enumerated in paragraph one OCCGA,
01:39:08.020okay, theft by receiving stolen property, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possession of hydrocodone with intent to distribute, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
01:39:15.840Guys, you just see what the fuck just happened there.
01:39:20.140So all those charges from before, okay, these charges here, even if they got thrown out, whatever it may be, they're coming back and hitting them with it under racketeering statutes, okay?
01:39:31.880Because they are members of YSL, okay, guys?
01:39:37.360There's a reason why 50 Cent runs around and says, I am not gang gang.
01:39:40.780The reason why he says that, guys, is because the police, law enforcement in general, okay, have more wiggle room to charge you and enhance certain charges simply by your association with being in a gang.
01:39:57.560It's not illegal to be in a gang, but it is illegal to commit criminal activities while being in a gang.
01:40:04.400And on top of that, you're going to, you're the criminal activities that you're getting charged with are going to be enhanced for being in said gang.
01:41:38.720Did appear in a video release on social media captioned original slimes to Sean Williams flashing YSL gang signs with lyrics stating murder gang shit.
01:41:46.560YSL until we're dead and pale and overact the furtherance of the conspiracy.
01:42:59.840Now we got Defender Jeffrey Williams and Associate of YSL did appear in a video released on social media, captioned anybody with Williams stating, I never killed anybody, but I got something to do with that body.
01:44:32.920Think of like each of the charges as like a graham cracker here, an M&M here, you know, a piece of chocolate here, maybe a gummy bear here, whatever.
01:44:40.260The marshmallow is the RICO that puts that keeps it all together stuck.
01:45:46.140And then we now is the next one is going to be ready for war like I'm Russia, which that's going to be which is so fitting because this thing came out before the Ukraine Russia war, which, by the way, if you guys want to know what's really going on in Russia,
01:46:03.400we did a whole video on that on our Fresh and Fit channel with Coach Redpill, a.k.a.
01:46:50.660And that's what they're trying to paint Young Thug as is basically the financer slash the leader of YSL, a criminal street gang under the umbrella of the Bloods, an international gang at this point.
01:47:05.040You know, of course, they're a national U.S. gang.
01:47:31.100Sergio Kitchens and Jeffrey Williams, associates of YSL, were the subject of a traffic stop for speeding involved in a stop where two vehicles,
01:47:37.440one being driven by Williams and another vehicle closely following Williams containing four individuals who were armed with numerous weapons with a high-capacity magazine to include an AK-47 with a 30-round magazine and overt act and furtherance of the conspiracy.
01:47:56.720Which, hold on to that, guys, because we're going to talk about why that's relevant here soon.
01:49:28.560And this was actually a very cool music video, the concept.
01:49:31.160Better watch the way you breathe around me before that breath be your last boy.
01:49:41.140Which is interesting to me that they're using Juice WRLD's lyrics on this against Thug.
01:49:48.620But, again, and the other thing, too, I want to say is anybody, guys, was ran by Nicki Minaj.
01:49:53.360So, I don't know how the state's going to go ahead, you know, and we also might get into some First Amendment issues as well here.
01:50:00.840And for some of you guys that don't know, we got a lot of international viewers.
01:50:03.860The First Amendment is freedom of speech, freedom to address how you want, freedom to express yourself how you want, etc.
01:50:08.800The issue is that when you express yourself the way that you want or you speak about certain things and the government's able to corroborate your statements to actual crimes, that's when your protections of the First Amendment pretty much diminish.
01:50:24.940Okay, so there might be something that we don't know about this lyric in particular that Juice WRLD is saying that the state may know.
01:50:35.760Because, remember, the indictment, guys, it's kind of giving you an overall broad sense of what's being charged and why they're charging it.
01:50:41.040But we need to actually look at the goddamn police reports to know the intimate details of why they're using these specific lyrics and are they able to tie it back to actual criminal activity.
01:50:52.580Let me really make that very clear for you guys, okay?
01:50:59.640What you guys got to understand here is that, right?
01:51:03.400So, you guys can see the lyrics right here, right?
01:51:05.420You better watch the way you breathe around me before that breath be your last boy.
01:51:12.600And Juice WRLD was the one that said that lyric, right?
01:51:14.620So, you're probably wondering, well, why the fuck are they charging Young Thug, right, on lyrics that Juice WRLD is saying?
01:51:22.680And the thing is, is that it does this infringe on the First Amendment.
01:51:26.280And the thing is with the First Amendment, guys, is like I said before, the First Amendment protects you unless the government's able to identify your speech
01:51:35.340is actually connected to criminal activity because that's considered confessions and or comments of a party opponent, right?
01:51:44.960And when you are, you know, a defendant, well, you are a party to the case.
01:51:49.980Just like the state is a party and you're a party and you're saying it, right?
01:51:57.760They can use it against you if they're able to tie it back to some kind of criminal activity.
01:52:01.260And keep in mind, we don't necessarily know what the state knows, okay?
01:52:06.620They might have a situation where they're able to tie this specific lyric back to some criminal activity committed by Jeffrey Williams, a.k.a. Young Thug.
01:52:15.860We don't know because we don't have the police reports.
01:52:26.440The fact that they're having, you know, they're able to say conversations were heard.
01:52:31.080Like, how are you hearing these conversations?
01:52:33.160You know, it's one of the ways that I named before, which we're going to go into more detail about that later on.
01:52:37.360But we're not going to really know the full picture, guys, until the prosecution hands Discovery over to the defense.
01:52:46.260And then the defense attorneys are able to see how the hell they were able to gather this information, how the hell these lyrics are relevant.
01:52:52.880And does it actually infringe upon their First Amendment right?
01:53:21.520So actually, what's really funny about that is while I was looking up these lyrics, you guys, like they have videos, you know, with the lyrics in them for his music videos, obviously.
01:53:31.060And some of the lyrics were wrong because they couldn't really even understand what the hell he was saying.
01:53:35.380So I thought that comment was pretty funny.
01:57:00.760They're going to come talk to you anyway, because they're going to know, well, this dude is going to be a suspect just off the fact that they're ops.
01:57:08.320You know, so, guys, man, if you got an issue with your opponent, don't go on social media and tell him I would have been killed you.
01:57:17.260Guys, please don't fucking do that shit, man.
01:57:21.380Next, let's keep going through this indictment.
01:57:28.600We got defendant Jeffrey Williams and associate YSL posted a video titled Just How It Is, with lyrics stating, I escaped every one of them licks.