Gunna and his YSL Records label head Young Thug have been in custody since their arrest on RICO prices in May. Despite many appeals by each rappers, neither has been granted bond till right now.
As Atlanta’s WSB-TV stories, Gunna, born Sergio Kitchens, “entered a negotiated plea, known as an Alford plea, in which he plead guilty on one charge because it was in his best interest while maintaining his innocence on the same charge.” As a results of the plea, Gunna was sentenced to 5 years with one served, and the one-year sentence was then commuted to time served. The remaining 4 years of his sentence have been suspended and shall be topic to particular situations together with 500 hours of neighborhood service.
“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 wrote in an announcement issued after his sentence got here down. He added that upon becoming a member of YSL in 2016, he didn’t view it as a gang however “more like a group of people from metro Atlanta who had common interests and artistic aspirations. My focus of YSL was entertainment — rap artists who wrote and performed music that exaggerated and ‘glorified’ urban life in the Black community.”
Young Thug stays in jail awaiting trial.