Young Thug Claims He Brought Gunna’s #1 Over The Weeknd

On Sunday night (August 30), a jail dialog with Younger Thug revealed that the rap star spent $50,000 on pretend streams for Gunna’s 2022 album DS4EVER in its debut week to assist it attain primary over The Weeknd‘s album, Daybreak FM. The paid for No.1 allegation was talked about when Thug revealed that Gunna was on the lookout for a brand new report label deal, in search of $20 million {dollars}.

Within the 5 minute audio, Thug revealed the next:

“When he did his two album cope with me. Money known as me sooner or later, like, hey, whatc y’all doing with Gunna? Who’s talking of them?” 
I am like, Wunna, ‘Oh, no. You understand, he tried to get signed prepared. Nicely, we will signal it he demanded he need, you recognize, 20 million. 
So I instructed him, like, no matter you need, I’ll give it to you, the cash, no matter you need. Simply on some we brother shit. Like, I do know you possibly can’t go nowhere on this world and get no $20 million examine from no label. “

He continued: “You are not doing numbers like that. You all proper, however you ain’t doing it like that. You understand? 
Like, the primary album you simply had proper now, I paid so that you can have the primary album. 
You did not truthfully earn a primary album over The Weeknd, my boy. I paid for that shit. By no means mentioned something to him. 
I by no means instructed him that, you recognize, as a result of I simply obtained. I simply we simply obtained the plug on it. Like, you by no means earned a primary ever. 
I spent 50 further grand purchase a motherfucking stream 50,000 shopping for strings for you. so that you can be me.”

The frustration reduce deeper when it got here to the subsequent technology of artists. Thug accused Gunna of charging teenage rappers—some as younger as 16—$2,500 for alternatives, regardless of already making hundreds of thousands below Thug’s wing. For Thug, the transfer reeked of exploitation. “Why would you ever in your life take a greenback from my younger boys?” he requested, his tone extra private than businesslike.

Thug additionally questioned the authenticity of Gunna’s rise on the charts. He claimed he had spent tens of hundreds of {dollars} on streams to spice up Gunna’s album to the primary spot. “He by no means earned a primary,” Thug mentioned, framing his former protégé’s success as manufactured fairly than earned.

By way of all of it, Thug painted an image of a strained brotherhood outlined by mismatched values. He mentioned he tried to defend Gunna from the harsher realities of the business, by no means taking a reduce of his hundreds of thousands, and even manufacturing chart success to bolster his profession. However the alleged secrecy, facet offers, and willingness to squeeze younger artists for fast cash crossed a line.

For Thug, the rupture isn’t nearly funds. It’s about respect, loyalty, and the fragility of household ties in hip-hop’s cutthroat enterprise. From his cell, he framed Gunna’s ambition as each his best asset and his final betrayal.

The newest audio follows an enormous leak of jail conversations by Younger Thug with a wide range of associates, together with 21 Savage and Lil Child. One other audio revealed Thug alleging that High quality Management did a cope with Scooter Braun with out Lil Child current.

Thug’s declare has not been authenticated at the moment. Gunna and The Weeknd have additionally not commented on the declare as of press time.