Young Thug Explains Taking ‘Crazy’ Plea Deal, Says It Let Him ‘Go Home’

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Young Thug Explains Taking ‘Crazy’ Plea Deal, Says It Let Him ‘Go Home’

Young Thug is speaking candidly about the tough choice he faced when agreeing to a plea deal in his high-profile RICO case.

In a new GQ interview, when asked if the decision to accept the plea deal was hard, he admitted,

“Absolutely. Just pleading to something you know that you didn’t do is crazy. But you get a chance to keep fighting. [You can] worry about the jury’s fate, or you [can] just go ahead now and go home. It’s like sh*t. Go home.”

The deal freed him but enforced strict probation, a ban from Atlanta—an act he called “abuse”—and limits on rapping about “gang things or stuff like that on the internet.”

Do you think Young Thug’s deal was fair?