![]() Hundreds of potential jurors questioned in Young Thug’s YSL gang case ‘Sizeable’ amount of drugs found on defendant as screams caused chaos during YSL trial, sheriff saysģ YSL gang trial defendants accused of stabbing man inside Fulton County Jail Essentially claiming that prosecutors took portions of Young Thug’s songs to help build their case against him and his alleged associates.īut prosecutors say the songs support their allegations and that Young Thug was the head of YSL, an alleged criminal street gang accused of committing violent crimes across the city.ĭefense attorneys call those claims baseless and claim YSL stands for Young Stoner Life, Williams record label. “Participants were randomly assigned to learn that the lyrics were either rap, country, or heavy metal.”ĭefense attorneys for rapper Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, have argued rap music is on trial. “I told participants, ‘Look you’re going to read a set of lyrics and then you’re going to have to make some judgments about the author of those lyrics’,” Dubar explained. Adam Dunbar, a college professor who conducted several studies on rap lyrics and the potential impact they could have on a jury took the stand, testifying about some of the findings he’s made in recent years.
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