Young Thug is back like he never left. On his new single, “Money on Money” — his first song since being released from prison last year — Thug counts his stacks alongside his friend Future. “I’m spendin’ this shit on my bitch and my kids,” he flaunts, topping it off with a few bars about his wheels and designer clothes. The first single off his upcoming album, Uy Scuti, “Money” is Thug turning the page after a RICO trial that alleged his record label YSL was also a criminal gang. The video opens with a tapestry reading “YSL” set on fire and Thug and Future holding the flamethrowers.
But that’s not all he seems to be turning the page on. “These fuck niggas tellin’ for nothin’, and I gotta be the one callin’ ’em friend,” Thug raps in the hook. He’s a bit more direct in his verse, rapping, “Brother, you a rat.” The lines seem to be jabs at Gunna, Young Thug’s YSL protégé who took an Alford plea on his racketeering charge in 2022. (Thug pleaded no contest to the racketeering charge.) Even Future seems to diss Gunna, echoing Thug with the line, “Twin, you a rat, you smoked.”
Those “Money” disses come after fans noticed YSL removed any mention of Gunna from its website and social media. Gunna, for his part, previously said he had “NOT cooperated” and “NOT agreed to testify or be a witness for or against any party in the case.” On his own post-prison track “bread & butter,” he raps, “Never gave no statement or agreed to take no stand on ’em.”
In a new interview with GQ, Thug implied he wasn’t on speaking terms with Gunna. When the reporter said “a lot of people wonder” about Thug’s relationship with Gunna, Thug replied, “Yeah, I know. Everybody wondering that.” Asked what it is like currently, Thug said, “I don’t know.” Thug also spoke about feeling “betrayed” and “fucking jaded.” “I think I love people so much to the point where the only thing that’ll make me not love you anymore, or just dislike you, is betrayal,” he said. “Like real-life betrayal. When your life is depending on it.”
