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Younger Thug attends a Again-to-Faculty Occasion at Hosea Helps in 2025
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Key Takeaways:
- Cobb County Jail has formally blocked public entry to Younger Thug’s jail calls following viral leaks.
- The transfer follows leaked conversations with Mariah the Scientist and others, sparking debate over inmate privateness.
- Authorized specialists say the timing raises questions on Georgia’s open information legal guidelines and media duty.
Younger Thug’s open information from his time behind bars in the course of the Younger Stoner Life Information RICO trial at the moment are formally off-limits, Loren Lorosa revealed Thursday (Sept. 11). In line with the “The Breakfast Membership” co-host, the Cobb County jail system banned extra requests for the rapper’s jail communications as of Wednesday (Sept. 10), together with the a number of cellphone calls that landed him in sizzling water final month.
“You can’t go and get any of these jail calls now,” Lorosa defined to which DJ Envy jokingly identified, “They launched all of them already, I really feel like.” Charlamagne Tha God then clarified {that a} lawyer informed him final week it wasn’t essentially Cobb County Jail releasing the information, however fairly the Georgia Open Information Act that allowed the general public to request them within the first place.
Lorosa talked about that Younger Thug was initially beneath the impression his information couldn’t be publicly accessed, particularly after his dialog with Mariah the Scientist leaked in January 2024. Many followers might recall the “Burning Blue” singer asking him, “Daddy, am I your child?” going viral, in addition to Drake publicly criticizing then-presiding Decide Ural Glanville over the non-public name making its method on-line.
“When these first few jail calls got here out, my workforce bought in contact with the Cobb County folks and stopped all of it,” Younger Thug stated throughout his look on Massive Financial institution’s “Perspektives With Financial institution” over the weekend. He additionally steered that the recordings had been in somebody’s possession lengthy earlier than their launch. “So, what [does] that let you know? Any person [has] been had it. They bought it again then and so they [have] simply been ready to launch it.”
It goes with out saying, however Cobb County Jail’s determination looks like far too little, far too late, particularly since a lot of the injury to Younger Thug’s fame has already been carried out. Among the many leaked calls, the “Digits” rapper was heard calling GloRilla “ugly as f**okay,” insisting Gunna was a “rat,” and bathmouthing about his Atlanta friends, together with Future, Migos and Gucci Mane.