Read This: a deep dive into the expansive, troubling indictment of Young Thug's YSL label
In the clip, Jordan Peele plays a rapper facing an interrogation by a detective who is all-too-certain his perp is pinned, based on the
evidence in his rap music. Peele also isn’t worried, however: they’re just lyrics, he insists, and it’s just a song. “I have a vivid imagination,” Peele deadpans after Key plays back a verse where he shares specific details about a murder. The joke plays on the fact that Peele’s lyrics make it maddeningly clear that he did commit a crime.
allegations that align the label more with criminal gang activity than collaborative art-making. In a new article,’s Christina Lee chronicles Williams’ life and career, the story of how a once-divisive creator who grew to shape the mainstream, became embroiled in “a legal saga that has halted his career at its commercial peak and, with his lyrics being employed against him by prosecutors, reignited the debate around using art as evidence in court.
After thoroughly exploring the person behind the artist, Lee transitions to the criminal kingpin he’s accused of being. Going as far back as Georgia’s introduction of the RICO act 52 years ago, Lee paints a stark picture of how the indictment—which notably, misidentifies YSL as standing for “Young Slime Life”— reduces YSL to a street gang and flags Williams as their leader.
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