Young Thug: “I'm too important for prison”

Almost six months after declaring himself guilty of six accusations of criminal association and Racket, Young Thug has finally spoken of the most of two years spent behind the bars and the long process in which he had been accused of using his label, the Young Stoner Life Records, as a cover for a criminal organization involved in murder and drug trafficking.

However, the rapper seems to have changed his mind. In fact, in a new interview with Gqthe rapper called himself an “innocent man”, explaining that he has declared himself guilty only to avoid a heavier conviction. “It is absurd to declare yourself guilty for something you know that you have not done,” he said. «But so you have the opportunity to continue fighting. You can worry about the fate decided by the jury, or choose to return home immediately. It's like saying: “Fuck, I go home” ». On the time spent in prison, Young Thug said little: “It was real,” he commented. “I don't want to live it anymore, but yes, it was real.”

According to Thug, the fact that his trial was the longest in the history of Georgia gave him a strange form of self -esteem. “I felt important,” he said. “I felt one of the greatest stars.” The number of people in the classroom, media attention and even the way the judge turned to him fueled that feeling.

“The judge said to me:” You have to realize who you are. ” My lawyer, Brian Steel, repeated every day: “brother, you have to understand it”. And every night, alone in the cell, I started making it: “I am important” ».

Over time, Thug has started to see all the experience as a sort of divine lesson. “I think I am too important for prison, but not too important for God,” he said. «God can also put the biggest person behind bars. I felt higher than prison, but somehow he managed to put me in there. I think it was a design of God ». Further on in the interview, he also admitted to being still trying to understand the reason that he pushed God to put him in that situation.

During the period in prison, you added Young Thug, many penitentiary agents were his fans, so much so that they ask him about his texts during the searches. Some were even more young than him. However, he added, his career was the last thing he thought about while he was in the cell: the priority were the family and the children.

Now he has returned to freedom, and is taking his career back in his hand: “I can no longer talk about gangs or certain things on the Internet,” he said since, during the trial, the prosecutors used some of his texts as evidence against him. “I have some songs in which I speak of street things, and it is precisely those texts that they tried to use against me,” he explained. «It was strange, but also cool. Because it's like saying: “Oh, everyone listens to me”. But also strange. The first amendment guarantees freedom of speech, fuck ».

The article is taken from Rolling Stone US