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More than 18 months after Atlanta prosecutors charged Young Thug and 26 other men with conspiracy to violate Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and more in a sweeping indictment, the jury trial of Thug and his five remaining co-defendants began Monday morning. Much like its preliminary process, the trial’s opening statements got off to a rocky start, with multiple interruptions along the way.

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YNW Melly prosecutors move to use rapper’s lyrics as evidence

Florida prosecutors in the YNW Melly double murder retrial intend to introduce a slew of the rapper's lyrics to be introduced as evidence, the Miami Herald reports. In a court filing made on Wednesday, Broward county prosecutor Alixandra Buckelew listed 55 songs, 18 audio files, 14 YouTube videos, and four album covers the state wishes to admit as evidence for the trial, which is scheduled to begin in February. The songs include Melly's biggest hit "Murder On My Mind." Read Next: YNW Melly appears on Yung Bans’ new song “No Belt” The February trial will be the second time that Melly, born Jamell Demons, Melly will face charges in the October 2018 killing of Christopher “Juvy” Thomas Jr and Anthony “Sakchaser” Williams.

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Report: Young Thug released from hospital after evaluation

Jeffrey Williams (Young Thug) was transported from Cobb County Jail to a nearby hospital after experiencing chest pain before a scheduled hearing today (May 11). An attorney for Williams told Judge Ural Glanville that he had “no idea what his condition is currently” but that he did not expect him to appear in court today.

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RAP Act returns to House floor

Last July, Reps. Hank Johnson and Jamaal Bowman (Democratic congressmen from Georgia and New York, respectively) brought a bill to the House of Representatives that would severely limit prosecutors’ ability to use rap lyrics as evidence of criminality.

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YSL defendant’s lawyer out on bond after prescription drug arrest in court

Anastasios Manettas, the attorney for YSL RICO defendant Miles Farley, was arrested on Thursday (April 20) at a courtroom checkpoint when officers found him to be carrying prescription drugs. Manettas was dragged off by police at the checkpoint, at which point he attempted to throw his colleague Chadha Jimenez his phone so that it couldn’t be searched in jail, Jimenez told Rolling Stone. Manettas missed, hitting an officer with the phone, which added one count of assaulting an officer to his charges.

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ABC News Studios announce YSL RICO doc

ABC News Studios have released a trailer for a forthcoming documentary called Rap Trap: Hip-Hop on Trial. Premiering February 23 on Hulu, the film will focus on the trials of Young Thug and Gunna within the broader indictment targeting their YSL crew.

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Young Thug speaks from jail at Hot 97 Summer Jam

Young Thug has been virtually silent since his May arrest on charges of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and participation in criminal street gang activity. He’s also been charged with seven additional felonies stemming from drugs and firearms found during a search of his Atlanta home the night of his arrest. Since then, he’s been incarcerated in Fulton County Jail, denied bond twice by judges in the county’s magistrate and superior courts.

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Atlantic and 300 Entertainment execs call for federal “Rap Music On Trial” law

The ongoing YSL RICO indictment in Georgia has reignited a long-running debate about the legal admissibility of rap lyrics as evidence of criminal wrongdoing. In response to recent events, 300 Entertainment co-founder and recently appointed CEO Kevin Liles and long-time Atlantic Records COO Julie Greenwald have circulated “Rap Music on Trial: A Petition to Protect Black Art.” “Weaponizing creative expression against artists is obviously wrong,” Liles and Greenwald write.

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Young Thug denied bond for second time in RICO case

A Fulton County, Georgia judge has denied bond to Young Thug, the Atlanta rapper born Jeffery Lamar Williams, for a second time in the ongoing RICO case against the rapper and his label YSL Records, which is alleged by the state to be a criminal street gang. His trial is scheduled to begin on January 9, 2023. Williams was arrested in May along with 27 other alleged YSL members as part of a 56-count indictment.

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Young Moose wins $300K settlement from city of Baltimore in police harassment lawsuit

Baltimore’s spending board has approved a $300,000 payment from the city to Kevron Evans, a local rapper who performs as Young Moose, The Baltimore Sun reports and multiple local outlets confirm independently. The decision follows Evans’ and the city’s May 10 court settlement of a year-long lawsuit in which Evans claimed a Baltimore police officer had planted crack cocaine on him during a 2012 search.

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