Key Takeaways:

• Southside distances himself from Gunna, citing loyalty to Young Thug.
• The producer emphasised his road code and long-standing friendship with Thug.
• His feedback add to the rising checklist of artists distancing themselves from Gunna post-YSL plea.

Southside isn’t producing any beats for Gunna — irrespective of the circumstances. On Saturday (Aug. 23), throughout “Drink Champs,” the producer made it clear his friendship with Young Thug comes first.

N.O.R.E. barely acquired the query out earlier than Southside interjected, “I ain’t making no beats for him.” The 808 Mafia frontman defined, “Right is right, wrong is wrong, [and] I’m a street n**ga at the end of the day.”

He continued, “Slime [has] been my friend,” earlier than pointing again to their “2 B**ches (Danny Glover)” collaboration. “That blew him up. That’s been my good friend when he ain’t had tooth in his mouth. He was signed with Gucci [Mane] at first, in order that’s been my good friend for a very long time.” See the clip under.

“If he feels some kind of way about it, that’s how he [feels],” Southside emphasised. “He’s the same way [about] me. If I feel some kind of way about something with somebody, he just ain’t gonna f**k with it, you know what I’m saying?”

Aside from the aforementioned “2 B**ches,” Southside and Young Thug have loads of historical past collectively. They’ve related on information like “Patek Water,” “Big Racks,” “Up,” “Big Tipper,” and extra lately, “Money On Money” with Future.

Of course, Southside has labored with Gunna, too. He produced “poochie down” on 2022’s DS4EVER and likewise co-produced “Order” with TM88.

Southside is only one extra identify on the rising checklist of individuals steering away from Gunna — whether or not out of loyalty to Young Thug or due to his Alford plea in YSL’s RICO trial. Last yr, Lil Baby informed Charlamagne Tha God that he has “no relationship” with the “fukumean” hitmaker, regardless of the 2 beforehand dropping Drip Harder collectively.

When requested if he’d work with Gunna at Young Thug’s request, Lil Baby responded, “I don’t see that happening.”