From deadly beef’s
to million dollar drug rings,
today we’re breaking down every rapper in the game
who’s wrapped up in a wild RICO case.
Young Thug, Gunna, and the rest of the YSL crew
getting hit with a RICO last year shocked everyone.
Thug has been one of the most influential rappers in the game for years
and nobody expected him to get taken down like this.
The indictment named over 20 dudes,
but it’s been clear from the jump that Thug is the one they really want.
As soon as they all got booked,
rumors started flying that he was getting snitched on by his homies.
A couple of low level dudes telling to get a deal ain't too surprising,
but back in December the situation took a shocking twist.
Thug and Gunna been locked in for years,
but that didn’t stop Gunna from taking a plea deal
and telling the court that YSL is a gang.
He took an Alford Plea which means he didn’t have to admit to any crime
but knew that the state could still convict him if it went to trial.
Gunna got off easy with a five year suspended sentence
but it came with a heavy cost.
After the news broke about his plea deal,
Gunna said that he didn't make any statements or cooperate.
People started calling cap on his story immediately
because you usually don’t get out of a RICO case
without giving the prosecution some serious info.
That’s when a video leaked showing Gunna making a statement in court
admitting that YSL is a gang
and that he was in a car with Thug that had guns and drugs in it.
YSL is a music label
and a gang,
and you have personal knowledge
that member or associates of YSL
have committed crime
in furtherance of the gang.
Yes ma'am.
You were present when law enforcement officers
stopped a vehicle
in which
you were present along with Jeffery Williams
where hydrocodone,
methamphetamines, and a fire arm were recovered.
These item did not belong to you.
Yes ma'am.
When the video came out
the whole rap game turned against Gunna.
Dudes like Boosie Badazz, Freddie Gibbs,
and even 6ix9ine clowned him for ratting his homie out like that.
Gunna allegedly flipping was wild,
but the whole case has been crazy so far.
One of Thug’s codefendants got caught
tryna slide him a pill in the middle of the courtroom
and got another charge separate from the RICO.
Then one of the YSL defense lawyers was arrested in court
for bringing in a bottle of prescription pills.
He tried to toss his phone to another lawyer when the cops were cuffing him,
but he ended up hitting a cop with it and got charged with a battery too.
You know it’s gonna be a crazy trial when even the lawyers are getting arrested,
but that’s nothing compared to what happened next.
Another state defense attorney working on the case
says that she’s thinking about starting an OnlyFans account to help pay her bills.
According to her,
This case is slated to last for about a year
and if you were to do the math
it would be $6 an hour.
I can't take any new cases,
I can't close any cases.
I just, I need something to survive off of.
And once they put those walls up
I'm thinking maybe I need to start an OnlyFans.
Getting paid $6 an hour for one of the biggest cases in the state is crazy
but that’s not the last of the shocking thing to come out of the YSL situation.
The Jury selection is still going on for Thug’s case,
and last week one of the potential jurors was held in contempt of court
after she called the judge a b****.
And while all the drama has been entertaining,
it's still very serious situation for Young Thug.
Last month his lawyer broke the news
that Thug has been barely surviving on “chocolate & chips” behind bars.
He doesn’t have any sunlight, outdoor areas,
or a place to exercise,
and Thug has to wake up at 4 in the morning to make it to court
then doesn’t go back to his cell until late at night.
He’s been denied bond three times already,
but a couple of weeks ago he filed a fourth motion to be let out
and his lawyer brought up all of the conditions he’s dealing with.
Nobody knows when the trial will finally start,
but it’s guaranteed to be insane.
You never know what’s gonna happen next in this case,
so tap in for updates.
The YSL RICO is huge right now,
but this next rapper almost beat a murder charge
right before getting hit with his own RICO case.
Bronx drill is one of the most violent and crazy scenes in rap right now.
Damn near every artist is deep in the trenches,
and the music coming out of there is like Chicago drill
but more shocking and disrespectful.
Kay Flock took over the Bronx drill wave in 2020
and helped push it to the mainstream
when he linked up with Lil Tjay and Fivio Foreign.
Most drill rappers don’t get a lot of attention outside their city,
but Flock had potential to actually hit the mainstream and make it out.
But Kay Flock wasn’t just a rapper buzzing in the industry,
he’s been in the streets since he was a kid
and was allegedly still crazy active while his music was popping off.
He reps a crew called Sevside
and used to be tight with a bunch of dudes from a set called the OYs.
But after his OY homie Edot
was seen chilling with some of Sevside’s opps,
Flock allegedly sparked a deadly war that’s still going today.
Edot and Flock started sending disses back and forth,
and in December 2021
Flock was booked for allegedly killing Edot’s homie Waka
in the middle of the street.
When the news first broke it seemed like Flock
was for sure goin down for Waka’s death,
but more details started coming out that made it look like
he had a good chance of beating the case.
He even told people he’d be back home in March,
Wipe a n***a nose if it runny
I'll be back real soon
2023 March you heard.
but then the feds came down hard
and hit Sevside and Third side with a RICO indictment.
According to the indictment,
Sev and Third side terrorized the Bronx
and turned the whole area into a war zone between 2019 and 2022.
Flock’s lawyer says that they only hit him with the RICO
because they knew that the murder case against him was weak
and they really wanted him off of the streets.
Flock went from thinking he’d be home this year
to facing the death penalty in a RICO case,
but right now nobody knows how it'll will play out.
It’s obvious they don’t want Flock out on the streets though.
And now that he’s on a case with seven other dudes,
there’s a good chance that at least one of them will snitch on Flock
for a lighter sentence.
Kay Flock isn’t the only New York rapper facing a RICO case though,
and this next rapper could end up getting hit with a sixty-year sentence
for allegedly being one of the top members of a brutal set of the bloods.
Casanova has lived a wild life in the streets of New York
and even met A$AP Rocky when they were both locked up
on Rikers Island back in the day.
When he decided to hop in the booth
people immediately connected to his raw style and bars
about what it’s really like in the trenches.
It didn’t take long for the industry to take notice,
and in 2016 he signed a deal with Warehouse Music Group
under Jay Z’s Roc Nation label.
But instead of leaving the streets in the past,
Cas stayed active and got hit with a RICO charge in 2020.
Cas reps a Blood set called the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation Gang,
and the prosecutors say he used his rap money to benefit the crew.
At first Casanova told fans that he was innocent
and the state was just using his past against him,
I'm innocent that's 1.
2 I've been fighting my whole life so
I'll get through this.
Just understand
how they can get you jammed up.
You don't know nobody
you ain't got nothin' to do with nothin'.
they still get you jammed up.
but then he ended up pleading guilty
to racketeering and narcotics conspiracy charges.
Taking a plea was probably the best move he could make
because it turns out
that the prosecution has some pretty strong evidence against him.
Someone involved with the case flipped
and told the cops about Casanova
accidentally letting a shot off at a poker game,
and another witness said they saw Cas bringing in “shipments
of large quantities of marijuana.”
Casanova said all the claims were true,
plus he admitted to a robbery from 2018
where a woman was recording him at a restaurant
and another Gorilla Stone member choked her out.
Cas took her phone too,
but he told the judge that he actually picked the woman up off the floor
and gave her the phone back.
The prosecution tried to paint Casanova
as a dangerous criminal who could crash out at any time
and said he was “an active, hands-on participant
in the gang’s senseless violence.”
Cas and his team tried to convince everyone
that he’s not the person the prosecutors say he is,
but it will be a while before we know if the judge agrees or not.
Casanova’s sentencing keeps getting pushed back,
but now he’s scheduled to be back in court on June 27th.
One of his co-defendants got hit with a twenty year sentence in August,
but Casanova is facing even more time.
If the judge decides Casanova is really as dangerous as the prosecution says -
he could give him a sixty year sentence.
Hopefully that’s not how it goes down though.
Cas already admitted that he’s on suicide watch
and has attempted it “a couple of times” when he was a teenager.
No matter what happens next in his case,
hopefully Cas gets the help he needs
to deal with all of the stress weighing on him right now.
Casanova went down
right when it looked like his career was gonna hit a new level,
but this next rapper went from making certified Diamond hits
to facing life in prison.
Fetty Wap went diamond and earned two Grammy nominations
for his massive hit Trap Queen.
He had a few more hits in the mid 2010s,
but he couldn’t keep the momentum up
and jumped straight into the streets to keep his pockets full.
Even though his career wasn’t poppin off like back in the day,
Fetty was still booking shows.
He had a spot in the lineup for Rolling Loud New York in 2021,
but before he took the stage the police booked him and five other dudes
in a RICO case for running a massive drug ring.
During the raid,
the cops found cocaine, heroin,
fentanyl pills, and five guns.
According to the police,
Fetty was a “kilogram-level” seller
and wasn’t the one actually running everything.
What’s wild about the case is that one of the other dudes
who got taken down was a corrections officer named Anthony Cyntje.
Cyntje was booked on a different trafficking case back in 2020
but was released on bond.
Then a year later he got taken down again with Fetty Wap and the others.
Rumors say that Cyntje has been working with the feds
ever since he was arrested in 2020,
and that he’s the one who gave the cops info on Fetty
and the rest of the crew.
Fetty got out of jail on a $500K bond
a month after the takedown.
He was facing life in prison because of how much weight their crew was moving,
then last year the situation got even worse for him.
Even though he was wrapped in a RICO case,
Fetty couldn’t lay low for a bit
and allegedly pulled out a gun and threatened to kill a dude on FaceTime.
Somebody recorded the call and sent it to the feds,
so Fetty’s bond was revoked and he’s been behind bars ever since.
At first he pleaded not guilty to all of the charges,
but in August he changed his mind and pleaded guilty.
He’s still facing a minimum of five years in prison,
but five years is nothing compared to a life sentence
he could’ve been hit with if he took the case to trial.
His sentencing was supposed to go down in March,
but apparently it was delayed
so tap in for updates when the news breaks.
Young Thug’s RICO case is making all the headlines right now,
but he probably wouldn’t have never been locked up
if he didn’t get involved in a deadly war with this next artist.
YFN Lucci is a rapper from Atlanta
that almost linked up with Young Thug and his YSL crew.
They had a lot of mutual friends in the industry
and could’ve put on for the city together,
but in 2015 a shocking death rocked the city
and sparked a wild beef between their crews.
The alleged claims are that Thug and YSL killed Lucci’s homie Big Nut,
and after that everyone in Atlanta had to pick a side.
The beef caused a huge wave of violence in the city,
but Lucci ended up getting hit with a murder charge for something totally different.
In 2021 he was booked for sliding into opp territory with other YFN affiliates
and letting off shots at them.
Lucci was allegedly driving the whip,
and the opps fired back and killed his homie James Adams.
That’s when they say Lucci and the other dudes in the car pushed James out
and left him dead in the street.
He got out on house arrest,
but then the situation got way worse for Lucci.
A couple of months later,
he was tied to a 105 count RICO case
that claims he linked up with a rapper named CP3
to bring a bunch of blood sets together and run the streets.
Facing a murder case on top of the RICO was bad enough,
but Lucci was almost stabbed to death in jail before his trial even started.
When Lucci got locked up for the second time,
YSL affiliates allegedly caught him lacking in jail and stabbed him.
It's rumored a dude named Jayman
is allegedly one of the guys who attacked him,
and the prosecutors in Thug’s case say that his homies Big Bhris and Antonio Sumlin
asked Thug for the greenlight to take Lucci out.
Thug has a lot of people allegedly flipping on him right now,
and in December
rumors started flying that Lucci was going to be a witness in his trial too.
People started dragging him for working with the feds,
but his lawyer jumped in to squash the rumors
and said Lucci isn’t going to testify.
Lucci’s trial was supposed to start around the same time as Thug’s,
but now it looks like he won’t go to court
until the YSL trial is over.
Their cases are closely tied to each other,
and the prosecutors in Thug’s trial are even using lyrics
where he allegedly bragged about getting Lucci’s mom’s house shot up.
In 2016, her house got hit up twice in the same week
but luckily nobody was seriously hurt.
After it went down,
Thug dropped the track Bad Boy and said
“I shot at his mommy, now he no longer mention me
You say you want smoke and I’ve been comin’ down the chimney
You got barbecue your b******, I’m so fried and they crispy
I had on Margielas when I shot at the c***
Act like you want war and they gon’ smoke you like a blunt.”
It might be more than a year before Thug’s trial is over,
but you never know what will happen in these wild cases
so tap in for updates while they develop.
Hoodrich Pablo Juan knew all the major rappers in Atlanta
before he ever even hopped in the booth.
He came up moving weight in the streets
and was the plug for a lot of artists,
but back then he was making so much money in the trenches
that he never even thought about getting into the industry.
But after the cops allegedly kicked Pablo’s door down
and robbed him he decided to switch up how he moved
and listen to everyone who told him he should rap.
He went on a crazy mixtape run and ended up signing with Gucci Mane,
but the momentum didn’t last and he ended up right back in the streets.
It’s not clear exactly how everything went down,
but in 2020 the news broke that he was involved with a RICO case.
According to the cops,
Pablo's from the rollin 20 neighborhood bloods
and the indictment took down 46 other dudes with Pablo.
They were booked on everything from assault,
robbery, and murder charges -
and Pablo was allegedly involved with the death of Lil Baby’s friend Lil Marlo.
Marlo was found dead on the road
after his car was shot up over 100 times,
and rumors say that a gun registered in Pablo’s name was found at the scene.
There wasn’t any evidence to back it up though,
and Pablo was never named in Marlo’s case.
RICO cases are almost impossible to beat,
but Pablo’s situation turned out better than anyone expected.
He ended up pleading guilty to one racketeering charge
and got hit with a 15 year sentence,
but he only has to serve five and the rest will be suspended.
Plus the judge gave him time served,
so if Pablo keeps his head down and stays out of trouble
he could come back home within a couple years.
Pablo’s case worked out pretty well for him,
but this next rapper could end up spending decades behind bars
after pleading guilty in a crazy RICO case.
Tsu Surf came up in Jersey
bangin a rollin’ 60s cripp set called the Silver Bacc Gorillas
and went to jail for the first time at 18.
After some OGs inside
said he should take music seriously and leave the streets behind,
Surf got out and jumped straight into the battle rap scene.
He started competing in the Ultimate Rap League
and gained respect from everyone in the industry from the jump
because he almost never lost.
Surf took it even further and started dropping his own projects
and touring with Joe Budden,
but at the same time he was still deep in the trenches
and caught a murder charge in 2017.
Surf allegedly shots at a rollin 47 neighborhood cripp
after his homie got hit up,
but he ended up beating the charge and got out in 2018.
He barely survived a shooting that left him with 37 stitches
right after he came home,
and then in 2019 he caught another gun charge and went back to jail.
After that case he stayed out of jail for a few years,
but in October 2022
he tweeted that he would probably never see a stage again.
Nobody knew what was going on,
but a week later the feds ran down on him at his house
and Surf tried to escape out the back door.
The cops had him surrounded though,
so Surf and a woman who was with him went back inside
and had a standoff with the police.
A crisis team had to come through and sort things out,
and luckily Tsu surrendered before anything serious went down.
He was booked with nine other SBG affiliates who were accused of murder,
robbery, and selling drugs -
and Surf allegedly used IG to set up the deals.
He pleaded not guilty to everything at first and was going to take it to trial,
but then rumors started flying that his OG had flipped
and was snitching on Surf.
It’s not clear if the rumors were true,
but in April Surf ended up pleading guilty to racketeering conspiracy
and possessing firearms and ammunition as a felon.
He hasn’t been sentenced yet,
but the racketeering charge could get him 20 years,
and the gun charge could cost him ten years in prison
if he’s given the maximum time.
Surf had the opportunity to leave the streets after going to prison,
getting shot, and beating a murder case -
but instead he stayed loyal to his gang
and could now end up spending the next thirty years behind bars.
Sheff G helped kick off the Brooklyn drill wave
with the track No Suburban,
and his homie Sleepy Hallow
ended up becoming another one of the hottest rappers in the scene.
Both of them have been fighting cases for the last couple of years,
but they were supposed to be free and link up again in the studio soon.
They still had a ton of momentum in the game
and could have taken over together,
but now they’re facing a crazy RICO case
that sounds like something out of a movie.
But the Brooklyn DA hit Sheff,
Sleepy, and 30 other alleged members of the 8 trey cripps
and 9 Ways gang with a 140 count RICO indictment.
They’re accused of using almost 40 guns during a dozen shootings,
and Sheff was allegedly involved with at least one of them.
The DA said
Sheff G used
a lot of the money that he earned.
to help facilitate
furthered gang activity.
He encouraged
gang member to participate
in violent crimes.
During one shooting,
a dude named Kamondre Dekattu
allegedly popped out of a sunroof
and started dumping shots while his homies inside the whip
were shooting out of the windows.
They allegedly killed a Folk Nation affiliate named Theodore Senior,
but that’s not even the craziest part of the story.
According to the indictment,
Sheff hosted a dinner party two days later
with a bunch of 8 trey and 9 way affiliates,
including Sleepy Hallow,
to celebrate Senior’s death.
His sister and him have both been charged
with conspiracy to commit murder.
But Sheff didn’t just reward his homies for committing murder,
he was allegedly active in the streets right there with them too.
Back in April 2021
he allegedly drove some shooters into opp territory
where they opened fire and hit two innocent bystanders.
Then just a couple of months later,
a bunch of 8 Treys allegedly kidnapped one of their own dudes
who had “betrayed” Sheff.
They caught him on the street and stomped him out,
then shoved him into a car and drove him to a cemetery.
They allegedly pulled him out of the whip
and started stomping him again,
but that’s when the cops rolled through and saved him.
Sheff and Sleepy Hallow had the chance to leave the street drama
and really blow up in the industry,
but now they’re facing decades in prison
in one of the craziest rap RICO cases yet.
More details will be dropping soon,
so tap in for updates on the situation.