Lil Baby tells fans he could have been part of Young Thug’s RICO case
Lil Baby and his Atlanta counterpart, Young Thug, are close. However, the former nearly got caught up in what ended up being the longest trial in Georgia state history. In a recent interview, the ‘In A Minute’ lyricist unveiled that he was actually at Thug’s house the day he was arrested in 2022.
No one knows what would have happened to Lil Baby as he is not officially part of or signed to the YSL label. However, it is a close call regardless. Speaking to Lil Yachty on his A Safe Place podcast, the ‘Pure Cocaine’ rhymer revealed, “What people don’t know and I don’t even tell people – I could’ve been with him,”
Recalling the day Thug was arrested, Lil Baby told Yachty, “I was at his house the same day. Thank God I just happened to leave two hours early. That’ll fuck your head up more than anything. Like damn, I gotta see bro go through this [and] that shit really could have been me.”
Speaking about how the arrest of Young Thug affected him and how it made him adjust his lifestyle, Lil Baby told Lil Yachty, “A n*gga had to change they whole life around. [This is] not even my rap peer. This is my everyday [friend]. These n*ggas I grew up with.”
However, Young Thug was not the only YSL artist arrested that day. Gunna was also apprehended. Still, the Atlanta artist was released in 2023 after accepting a plea deal. Many assumed that the deal offered to him was in exchange for information or increased cooperation, and thereby, he has been labelled as a snitch by the hip-hop community and is a pariah.
Gunna has especially lost favour with other Atlanta-based MCs and former friends such as Young Thug, Lil Baby and the Migos. While speaking with Charlamagne Tha God on his podcast, Out of Context, Lil Baby informed the radio host that there is no friendship between the two, and when asked about their relationship asserted, “We don’t got no relationship. Nope,”
The Breakfast Club radio host then asked Baby if he would join a studio session with Gunna if Young Thug asked him to, to which he responded, “I don’t see that happening. I don’t know what nobody else will do, but as far as me.” The Street Gossip creator did, however, deny that he was dissing Gunna and calling him a rat on ‘350.’
Insisting it was all fan-driven, he told Charlamagne Tha God, “That’s just the internet and what they gonna create. I talk about rats in every song I have since I started rapping. So now you know they just create a narrative, and I don’t even be talking about a n*gga.”