Young Thug had some inspiring words for a class of law students in a recent speech facilitated by his lawyer, Brian Steel.
The Atlanta rapper’s long-running YSL RICO trial came to an abrupt end on Thursday (October 31) when he accepted a plea deal, the terms of which saw him sentenced to time served plus 15 years of probation.
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A part of the terms of his probation is community service, which Judge Paige Reese Whitaker specified includes talking to students.
When Steel made an appearance at Emory University School of Law earlier this week, he conferenced Thug in via FaceTime. The newly-freed rapper praised the students for their career aspirations.
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“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,” Thug said. “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. 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.
“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. 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.”
In other news, Young Thug linked up with T.I. earlier this week to record – which led to speculation that he’d violated his probation after less than a week due to Tip being a convicted felon.
However, as legal reporter Meghann Cuniff pointed out on X, the terms of Young Thug’s release do not prevent him from associating with felons, just “members or associates of a street gang.”
Thug’s probation conditions do, however, refer to avoiding “persons or places of disreputable or harmful character,” which Cuniff speculates is vague enough to be used against him.
“Young Thug’s probation does not prohibit him from being around convicted felons, only ‘members or associates of a criminal street gang’ who aren’t immediate family members,” she wrote.
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When a Thug fan page asked for clarification on the condition, “Avoid persons or places of disreputable or harmful character,” Cuniff explained: “Really vague and underscores how the plea might have been a really bad idea, given what he ended up getting. Whitaker made it so the state can easily revoke the ‘for lawful music purposes’ exception.”
