{"id":133992,"date":"2022-08-17T01:06:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T01:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/young-thug-sued-for-concert-that-was-canceled-due-to-incarceration\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T01:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T01:07:04","slug":"young-thug-sued-for-concert-that-was-canceled-due-to-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/young-thug-sued-for-concert-that-was-canceled-due-to-incarceration\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Thug Sued for Concert That Was Canceled Due to Incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/young-thug\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Young Thug<\/a> has been hit with a new lawsuit as he still sits behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/crime\/still-in-jail-rapper-young-thug-sued-over-canceled-atlanta-show\/CRIKFB3MEFFF5I7A6MML7SG4LM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> that due to Thugger\u2019s incarceration, he was unable to perform at an Atlanta concert that was set up in January of this year. He was arrested in May and is\u00a0now being sued for $150,000 in\u00a0damages\u00a0and attorneys\u2019 fees for\u00a0the canceled June 18 show. Unfortunately, Thug was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/young-thug-bond-hearing-rico-case-stream\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">denied bond<\/a> in June after an hours-long hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The ATL native was going to receive $300,000 for a 45-minute set, half of which was paid upfront. He would get the remainder after the gig was over, according to court documents. Atlanta-based A-1 Concert Entertainment hasn\u2019t yet received the $150,000 back, although someone from Thug\u2019s company YSL Touring said the refund would be issued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to his arrest and the nature of the felony criminal charges against Williams, it was immediately apparent in May 2022 that he would not be able to perform as required in the agreement,\u201d the filing said. \u201cTo date, A-1 Concert has not received any reimbursement of the $150,000 owed to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young Thug is facing a number of criminal charges following his May 9 arrest, and just last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/young-thug-new-gun-charges-in-rico-case\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">more charges<\/a> were tacked on, including two criminal street gang activity-related counts, and three charges for\u00a0violation of the Georgia controlled substances act, possession of firearm during commission of a felony, and possession of a machine gun. Two additional defendants were also named in the machine gun count, Martinez Arnold and Deamonte \u201cYak Gotti\u201d\u00a0Kendrick.<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\" \/>\n<p>Thug, Gunna, and 26 other YSL members are part of the RICO case. It\u2019s anticipated that they will go to trial on Jan.\u00a09, 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/young-thug-lawsuit-atlanta-concert-was-canceled-due-to-incarceration\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Thug has been hit with a new lawsuit as he still sits behind bars. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that due to Thugger\u2019s incarceration, he was unable to perform at an Atlanta concert that was set up in January of this year. He was arrested in May and is\u00a0now being sued for $150,000 in\u00a0damages\u00a0and attorneys\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[623,823,782,95,147,448,449,5,1433,224,570,7,8,332,93,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlanta","category-concerts","category-court","category-dfp-music","category-dfp-music-other","category-dfp-notadsafe","category-dfp-notadsafe-noads","category-featured","category-georgia","category-jail","category-lawsuit","category-music","category-news","category-prisons","category-tier-one","category-young-thug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133994,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133992\/revisions\/133994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}