why would you complain about not seeing a concert when they're charged with a ton of horrible shitOh man this is disappointing, he's so fucked with charges like this laid against him. Like for years. I was planning on seeing him at a festival too this summer.
They get my mans Thugger on this yet Trump still walking free.
Under RICO, a person who has committed "at least two acts of racketeering activity" drawn from a list of 35 crimes (27 federal crimes and eight state crimes) within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering if such acts are related in one of four specified ways to an "enterprise." Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count.
Considering Young Thug has a song called "Power", should we be surprised at him possibly getting R.I.C.O charges?
Up to their ears.
Don't understand all these "he's done" posts when Tekashi 6ix9ine was convicted for the same racketeering shit and walked free after a year or two
The bye bye forever level
Perhaps most shockingly, more than half of the 120 indicted in the "largest gang takedown" in New York City history, including Lewis, were never actually alleged by prosecutors to be gang members at all. "Why on earth would they bring mass gang indictments, have a press conference saying that this is the largest takedown of two violent gangs in history, and actually be taking down dozens of people who are not gang members, and 80 individuals who are not violent?" Howell asked. "It's because these prosecutions are politically advantageous. These cases make for easy wins, high-profile, good press coverage, and they give prosecutors a platform to appear tough on crime."
Hopefully he'll be old upstanding citizen instead.
He supposedly had Wayne's bus shot up after a showYeah. But I remember a rumors of Thug as hiring a hit on another rapper years ago. So uh …yeah
I like Lucci AND I like Gunna & Thug.
He's fucked, but Rico has been involved in some shady shit these last few years. There was a case in NY where they swept up a bunch of gang members in close by projects that was over a hundred people…
…but subsequent reporting has come out that looks like many of em got dragged in just for 'hanging' with gangmembers and considering they all live in the same building you can imagine how innocents got swept up and prosecuted because no one gave a fuck. Even though its an intercept article, it was state college students who did the heavy lifting with a report.
The Largest Gang Raid in NYC History Swept Up Dozens of Young People Who Weren’t in Gangs
The prosecution of the Bronx 120 raises serious questions about due process and the abuse of federal conspiracy charges.theintercept.com
Doesn't make a difference though; these are slam dunks for the prosecutors and only real way out is a bit less time by pleading asap to lessen their workload. Gunna's career just blew up too; courtside seats, dating an R&B scarlet for a second etc.
I forget was Shmurdas case local or fed? All I remember was the criminal conspiracy charges which are also hard as fuck to get out of
Also, the more I think about it, I think I blame Baby?
I always found it interesting how Young Thug was bubbling up under Gucci Mane's imprint and you figured he would have had a Migos type glowup, but it was very odd that Baby went out of his way to grab him up to actively threaten Wayne whenever they had a chance to the point they were naming albums after him. Particularly since Thug always shouted out Wayne for being his big inspiration, even when beefing.
You could say it's because he wanted a young act to leech off a la Drake, but once Wayne and him 'made up' Thug disappeared from that association. This feels like Baby pushed him to embrace the street shit (shooting up Waynes bus) considering the charges start in 2015 when Lil Wayne's bus was shot up. If he cared about his career (and a possible financial investment) that would have been a no no.
Trump didn't shoot at another politician's tour bus though.They get my mans Thugger on this yet Trump still walking free.
It was also Rico; similar to thug one he was one of the members of the ringleaders of GS9, 'east flatbush gang'. Shit very similar if you think cause on a much lesser but similar scale Rowdy Rebel was up and coming (I will throw a desk out of a windows to "Computers") and also got hemmed up so two promising careers got derailed
If they're guilty then they're guilty but don't act like RICO isn't an outdated behemoth of a law that is really only used to go after rappers and their associates nowadays lol.The initial reactions in this thread is interesting to me. There's a full amount of "separate the art from the artist" energy going on in here since you enjoy the music.
So I'm now wondering if some of you are consistent with this for other certain hip-hop artists...
Rule of thumb - if you see the word "RICO", know that they people involved are super fucked.