YSL Woody walked away from rap and renounced gang life in Atlanta whereas the YSL RICO case continues to make headlines and Young Thug stays on the heart of a media storm.

YSL Woody, stated he’s completed with music and the streets. He’s now targeted on religion, writing and telling his story by way of a brand new e-book and upcoming documentary.

“Walk away. You gotta tell yourself. ‘Okay, today, I’m done.’ That’s what I did,” Woody stated in a current interview with Fox5 Atlanta. “Nah, man, they want us believe it’s two ways out, dead or jail. No, it ain’t. Just turn your back, just walk away. You feel what I’m saying, because if you don’t do it now, later down the line might be too late.”

Woody’s transformation comes because the YSL trial continues to trigger controversy.

Young Thug has been caught in a storm of leaked jail calls and resurfaced interrogation footage from a 2016 case involving Peewee Roscoe and a taking pictures concentrating on Lil Wayne’s tour bus.

The footage reignited hypothesis about whether or not Thug cooperated with police.

Since then, audio has surfaced of Thug criticizing a number of Atlanta rap figures, together with Future, André 3000, GloRilla and Lil Durk. His try to clear the air on Big Bank’s podcast has solely intensified the backlash.

Woody, in the meantime, has grow to be some of the controversial figures within the trial.

Once a key witness for the state, he admitted underneath oath that he lied in previous police interviews and claimed he falsely implicated Young Thug to deflect stress from investigators.

Despite his function because the prosecution’s star witness, Woody contradicted himself repeatedly, claimed disabilities, fired his lawyer mid-testimony and invoked the Fifth Amendment a number of instances.

The trial, which was the longest within the historical past of Atlanta, ended with most members taking plea offers, together with Gunna and Young Thug.

Woody is engaged on a documentary about his life and has a brand new e-book titled Books Up, Guns Down.

Woody hopes his e-book will ship a a lot completely different message than the hip-hop tradition he used to take part in.

“You ain’t got to be a violent person, to be a rapper, you know, drug dealer, to be a rapper, anything. You could be an educated graduate to be a rapper, you know, you can be whatever you want to be. You ain’t got to uphold that image,” Lil Woody stated.

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