The YSL RICO trial is still in its discovery phase and had been on pause for a while. The reason for the pause was YSL Polo, whose real name is Cordarius Dorsey. He was facing separate murder charges for an incident in 2020. That trial had to be completed before the YSL trial as a whole could move forward. As of today, he's been found guilty of the murder and will begin his path towards sentencing while the YSL trial will be restarted. YSL Polo was removed from the rest of the YSL RICO defendants last week after a viral video made the rounds of him behaving strangely, causing Young Thug's lawyer to move for severance.
Young Thug has been in police custody since last May as a result of the YSL RICO indictment. Thug, Gunna, and numerous other notable YSL affiliates were among 28 arrested. The group were hit with 56 different crimes as a part of the massive RICO indictment. Even more, charges were tacked on after police executed numerous searches and discovered more illegal substances and weapons. The indictments shocked many fans and fellow rappers and began a movement to free Thugger that hasn't slowed down in the year since.
Earlier this year, Young Thug dropped his new album Business Is Business. The project was executive produced by Metro Boomin on Thugger's behalf while he was incarcerated. The album sports an absolutely stacked feature list including Drake, Future, 21 Savage, Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, and more. It went on to debut at number two on the Hot 100. The album has been one of the biggest selling rap projects of 2023 so far.
The biggest hit from the Business Is Business "Oh U Went" with Drake is still on the Hot 100 this week. What do you think of YSL Polo being convicted of another murder just days after bizarre video of his behavior hit the internet? Let us know in the comment section below.
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Childish Gambino has kicked off his world tour this week – check out some of the live debuts and rarities he performed below.
Last night (August 11), Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, began his world tour at Oklahoma City’s Paycom Center. The set included songs that Glover had never performed live, as well as a few rarities that haven’t been performed in several years.
It was also Gambino’s first time taking his new album ‘Bando Stone & The New World’ out on the road.
Some of the rarities that were performed for the first time in nine years included ‘Do Ya Like’, ‘Bonfire’ and ‘Freaks And Geeks’. ‘L.E.S.’ also got its first performance since 2013.
Check out footage of the gig below, together with the setlist.
Childish Gambino setlist:
1. ‘H3@RT$ W3RE M3@NT T0 F7¥’
2. ‘Survive’
3. ‘The Worst Guys’
4. ‘Talk My Shit’
5. ‘Got To Be’
6. ‘In The Night’
7. ‘Yoshinoya’
8. ‘To Be Hunted’
9. ‘Witchy’
10. ‘Steps Beach’
11. ‘Crawl’
12. ‘Cruisin”
13. ‘Feels Like Summer’
14. ‘Human Sacrifice’
15. ‘A Place Where Love Goes’
16. ‘No Excuses’
17. ‘Me And Your Mama’
18. ‘Do Ya Like’
19. ‘This Is America’
20. ‘Sweatpants’
21. ‘Sober’
22. ‘L.E.S.’
23. ‘Heartbeat’
24. ‘Bonfire’
25. ‘Freaks And Geeks’
26. ‘Saturday’
27. ‘3005’
28. ‘Redbone’
29. ‘Lithonia’
Kyann-Syan Williams wrote of ‘Bando Stone and The New World’ in a four-star review for NME: “Glover has made a record as otherworldly as his other outings. Yet, ‘Bando Stone and The New World’ stumbles slightly – where its sonic variety is exciting, it lacks a clear sense of cohesion or theme compared to his previous work – making it a bittersweet farewell to the legend of Childish Gambino.”
Last week, ahead of the album’s release, Glover explained why he was retiring Childish Gambino, chalking it up to portraying the rapper not being “fulfilling” anymore, and wanted to dedicate more time to his personal life and other avenues after the death of his father and the birth of his children.
