Young Thug delivers powerful speech to law students following prison release
When Young Thug was released from prison on October 30th, many rappers celebrated his return after a prolonged two-and-a-half-year RICO trial. However, the plea deal he was offered by the presiding Judge Paige Whittaker, had several conditions, one of which was that he had to host an anti-gang and anti-gun presentation four times a year.
That said, he recently gave a speech to a class of law students set up by his attorney, Brian Steel. Although Young Thug didn’t turn up physically, when Steel visited Emory University School of Law earlier this week, the ‘Best Friend’ emcee spoke via video call to all of the students about the righteous role of lawyers in societ.
He began, “You gotta always look at it like they’re there to put us in prison, and you guys are here to keep us from prison. Brian Steel is the best person possible. He should be a professor. You guys should become lawyers. I think it’s very important to help people out of the situations they’re in the best you can.”
The Jeffrey creator then explained how being a lawyer is beneficial for people who make mistakes, professing, “I mean, what side do you want to be on? You want to put people in prison for mistakes? Because everybody makes mistakes, they’re human.”
Young Thug continued to praise Steel and reassured the students that they were doing a good thing, continuing, “And everybody on this phone, in this classroom, you always need to know that you’re one mistake away. I feel like we need more people like Brian Steel on this earth and less people like that. So I think it’s very, very, very important to be a lawyer over anything.”
Thugger even compared lawyers to doctors, adding, “Lawyers and doctors are the two greatest things that were ever founded. You actually help people. That’s doing the real God work. I think every one of you in the classroom should become lawyers for sure. Anything you need from me, I’m here always. We need y’all.”
Although this is the first of many speeches Thug will give, the lyricist will also have to do 100 hours of community service. There is also a ban on contact with gang members or former co-defendants and a prohibition from remaining in the metropolitan Atlanta area for the first 10 years of his 15-year probation period. So far, the rhymer has kept out of trouble and seems to be keeping to the conditions of his plea deal.