Rapper Young Thug

Grammy-award winning rap artist Young Thug was arrested Monday in Atlanta and indicted on conspiracy and gang charges.

Kitchens is also among the defendants to be named in the indictment filed Monday. Performing as Young Thug, Williams has been hailed as one of the most influential hop-hop artists to emerge in the past two decades. Williams pleaded not guilty, and the case is ongoing, according to court records.

The rapper is alleged to be one of three founding members of street gang Young Slime Life that is centre of criminal investigation.

He also earned a Grammy nomination for his rap hit "The London", in 2020. The rapper, who won a songwriting Grammy for Childish Gambino’s hit This Is America in 2019, is alleged to be one of three founding members of YSL, according to the indictment. The rapper is alleged to be one of three founding members of street gang Young Slime Life that is centre of criminal investigation

He was one of 28 people indicted in Georgia. Also among them, rapper Gunna.

Charges include "Preserving, protecting and enhancing the reputation, power and territory of the enterprise through acts of racketeering activity including murder, assault and threats of violence." YSL is affiliated with the national Bloods gang, officials said. He was being held at the Fulton County Jail.

Rapper Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffrey Williams, has been arrested in Atlanta on suspicion of gang involvement and conspiracy to violate Georgia ...

His debut studio album, called So Much Fun, was released in 2019 and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. This conviction was overturned in 2018. Included in the charges in the indictment is conspiracy to commit murder, in which it claims that Chritian Eppinger (listed in the document as “Bhris”) and Antonio Sumlin (“Obama”) talked about their desire to “obtain the permission” of Young Thug to make an attempt on the life of YFN Lucci. I was going to school so my dad and mom would keep buying me clothes, but when I got out I did what I wanted to do - fighting, all kinds of s**t.” A number of the acts listed under the “acts in furtherance of the conspiracy” section are YSL-related songs, video, social media posts and lyrics that have been deemed “an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy”. Young Thug has also been accused of a number of other charges in the indictment document, including: threatening to kill a man at a shopping centre; renting a car that was used during the murder of Donovan Thomas Jr in 2015; and intending to distribute methampethamine.

Young Thug is facing charges in a 56-count indictment, including an accusation he rented a car used in the commission of the murder of a rival gang member ...

Charges include “Preserving, protecting and enhancing the reputation, power and territory of the enterprise through acts of racketeering activity including murder, assault and threats of violence.” Young Thug is allegedly one of three founders of the Young Slime Life, “a criminal street gang that started in late 2012” in Atlanta, the indictment says. Atlanta rapper Young Thug was one of 28 people indicted Monday in Georgia on street gang charges and conspiracy to violate the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act, according to jail records.

Rapper Young Thug was arrested in Atlanta on alleged gang-related charges after being named among 28 people, including rapper Gunna, in a 56-count grand ...

It is unclear if he has been arrested. Record label Young Stoner Life was announced in 2016 by Young Thug and is an imprint of 300 Entertainment. More than a dozen artists are signed to the Young Stoner Life label, including Gunna. ABC News has reached out to representatives of the music label but a request for comment was not immediately returned. Atlanta-based rapper Gunna, whose real name is Sergio Giavanni Kitchens, was also named in the indictment on one count of conspiring to violate the RICO Act. ABC News has reached out to representatives for Gunna but a request for comment was not immediately returned. “Mr. Williams has committed no violation of law, whatsoever. Steel said that Young Thug is currently in custody and the court will set a hearing in the near future to consider bond. The rapper was among 28 people allegedly associated with the Atlanta-based Young Slime Life (YSL) gang, which authorities say he founded in 2012, who were charged with conspiring to violate the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act, according to charging documents obtained by ABC News. YSL is also the name of his record imprint, Young Stoner Life, and a number of those charged are associated with the label.

Rapper Young Thug arrested and charged with gang-related crimes. 30-year-old, real name Jeffrey Williams, was reportedly arrested in Georgia.

Williams was among the 28 people named in the 56-count indictment. He was charged with conspiracy to violate Georgia’s Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations (RICO), and participation in gang activity – and is thought to be the founder of the Young Slime Life gang. According to reports, the Go Crazy musician was one of 28 people charged with gang-related crimes and violating the state’s criminal racketeering law.

The Atlanta star, whose given name is Jeffrey Lamar Williams, co-wrote the hit This Is America with Childish Gambino.

In a hyper-masculine hip-hop scene, Thug refused to play by traditional gender rules. In addition to specific charges, the indictment includes a wide-ranging list of 181 acts prosecutors say were committed as part of a conspiracy to further the gang’s interests. The indictment accuses members of the gang of trying to kill rival gang member and rapper YFN Lucci, whose given name is Rayshawn Bennett, by “stabbing and stabbing at” him with a blade in Fulton County Jail.

The Atlanta star, whose given name is Jeffrey Lamar Williams, co-wrote the hit This Is America with Childish Gambino.

In a hyper-masculine hip-hop scene, Thug refused to play by traditional gender rules. In addition to specific charges, the indictment includes a wide-ranging list of 181 acts prosecutors say were committed as part of a conspiracy to further the gang’s interests. The indictment accuses members of the gang of trying to kill rival gang member and rapper YFN Lucci, whose given name is Rayshawn Bennett, by “stabbing and stabbing at” him with a blade in Fulton County Jail.

Indictment quotes multiple music videos as evidence and accuses alleged gang members of targeting other high-profile rap artists.

YFN Lucci was among a dozen people charged in another gang-related Rico indictment in Fulton county a year ago. For at least some of them, that could mean life in prison. Fulton county prosecutors say that in late 2012, he and two others founded Young Slime Life, a violent criminal street gang that’s commonly known as YSL and is affiliated with the national Bloods gang.