Young Thug has taken issue with someone he called a “rat representer.”
In a tweet shared on Thursday (Aug. 14), the Atlanta rapper called out someone without directly naming them in a provocative, pointed tweet. “U fucking rat representer shut up,” he wrote, without alluding to whom he was dissing.
The tweet comes just days after Yak Gotti’s attorney, Douglas Weinstein, responded to snippet of a currently unreleased Thug verse in which he appeared to call out both Yak Gotti and Gunna by accusing them of cooperating with authorities during the long-winded YSL RICO trial.
“Yak Gotti tricked me for years I ain’t know he was telling,” he rapped in the leaked snippet. “Only reason I fucked with you, Gunna, it was ‘cause of Troup.”
Weinstein, in a since-deleted tweet per HotNewHipHop, shot down accusations that Gotti “snitched” on Thug or anyone else. “Yak did not say a single thing against Jeff in his interviews with the cops,” he allegedly wrote. “I don’t know where this is coming from. Yak had opportunity to turn on Jeff during trial to get out of the case easy. He never took it. He stood tall and took it all the way to the jury.” He also accused prosecutors of hoping to get YSL to “turn” on each other.
Gotti was released from jail earlier this year after entering a guilty plea, while Gunna was released in December 2022 on probation.
Ahead of the arrival of his new album, UY Scuti, Thug sat down for an interview with GQ earlier this year and addressed his relationship with Gunna, who has faced accusations of being a “snitch” in the trial for accepting an Alford plea.
“You guys did a ton of songs together,” interviewer Zach Baron said of Gunna. “He was very successful on your label. He was arrested about the same time as you. I think a lot of people wonder what that relationship is like now.” Thug replied, “Yeah, I know. Everybody wondering that.” When asked what their relationship was like, he said, “I don’t know.”
Shortly after his release from jail last year, Thug seemingly took aim at his former collaborator in a hastily deleted tweet. “Gunna stop acting like we friends on the internet, I don’t know u my guy,” he wrote. Last month, meanwhile, he tweeted, “If u a rapper and u rat, u gotta just go gospel twin.”
Despite the accusations, Gunna and his attorney have denied that he cooperated with authorities when he accepted his Alford plea. “While I have agreed to always be truthful, I want to make it perfectly clear that I have NOT made any statements, have NOT been interviewed, have NOT cooperated, have NOT agreed to testify or be a witness for or against any party in the case and have absolutely NO intention of being involved in the trial process in any way,” Gunna said in December last year.
