Key Takeaways:

• Cobb County Jail has formally blocked public entry to Young Thug’s jail calls following viral leaks.
• The transfer follows leaked conversations with Mariah the Scientist and others, sparking debate over inmate privateness.
• Legal consultants say the timing raises questions on Georgia’s open information legal guidelines and media accountability.

Young Thug’s open information from his time behind bars through the Young Stoner Life Records RICO trial at the moment are formally off-limits, Loren Lorosa revealed Thursday (Sept. 11). According to the “The Breakfast Club” co-host, the Cobb County jail system banned extra requests for the rapper’s jail communications as of Wednesday (Sept. 10), together with the a number of cellphone calls that landed him in sizzling water final month.

“You cannot go and get any of those jail calls now,” Lorosa defined to which DJ Envy jokingly identified, “They released all of them already, I feel like.” Charlamagne Tha God then clarified {that a} lawyer instructed him final week it wasn’t essentially Cobb County Jail releasing the information, however reasonably the Georgia Open Records Act that allowed the general public to request them within the first place.

Lorosa talked about that Young Thug was initially underneath the impression his information couldn’t be publicly accessed, particularly after his dialog with Mariah the Scientist leaked in January 2024. Many followers might recall the “Burning Blue” singer asking him, “Daddy, am I your baby?” going viral, in addition to Drake publicly criticizing then-presiding Judge Ural Glanville over the personal name making its approach on-line.

“When those first few jail calls came out, my team got in touch with the Cobb County people and stopped all of it,” Young Thug mentioned throughout his look on Big Bank’s “Perspektives With Bank” over the weekend. He additionally urged that the recordings had been in somebody’s possession lengthy earlier than their launch. “So, what [does] that tell you? Somebody [has] been had it. They got it back then and they [have] just been waiting to release it.”

It goes with out saying, however Cobb County Jail’s resolution looks like far too little, far too late, particularly since a lot of the harm to Young Thug’s repute has already been accomplished. Among the leaked calls, the “Digits” rapper was heard calling GloRilla “ugly as f**k,” insisting Gunna was a “rat,” and bathmouthing about his Atlanta peers, together with Future, Migos and Gucci Mane.