Key Takeaways:

• The long-running feud between Young Thug and YFN Lucci is again within the highlight amid new music on the way in which.
• Their beef, which started in 2017, has resurfaced by way of social media jabs and aggressive album timing.
• The simultaneous launch of UY SCUTI and ALREADY LEGEND. may reshape Atlanta’s rap narrative.

Young Thug and YFN Lucci are going head-to-head over again. Both of their albums, UY SCUTI and ALREADY LEGEND., are slated to return out on Friday (Sept. 26), and judging by their posts, neither rapper is especially thrilled about it.

On Monday (Sept. 22), Thugger shared a photograph of himself mendacity on the bottom surrounded by UY SCUTI field set merch. “F**k [YFN Lucci],” he captioned the put up. YFN Lucci later responded with an image of the “Digits” hitmaker blowing a kiss to the digicam. “Album ain’t nun’ for a million, ugly ahh man,” he wrote beneath the put up. “[ALREADY LEGEND. drops] Friday, f**k buddy.”

As reported by REVOLT, Young Thug and YFN Lucci’s beef dates again to 2017, when the previous artist declared himself the brand new Tupac Shakur on Beautiful Thugger Girls. “Pac would’ve never [worn] a dress,” YFN Lucci responded on X. The two traded jabs on-line round that repeatedly in 2019.

New particulars about their feud got here to gentle final 12 months whereas each rappers had been behind bars. During Young Thug’s Young Stoner Life Records’ RICO trial, prosecutors alleged that he was the top of a Bloods-affiliated gang, Young Slime Life, which they are saying music/music-news/young-thug-witness-kenneth-copeland-ysl-rico-trial-1235089698/”>was chargeable for the homicide of Donovan “Nut” Thomas Jr. (an in depth pal of Lucci’s).

Many followers assumed UY SCUTI would arrive final Friday (Sept. 19), the identical day as Cardi B’s AM I THE DRAMA? However, Thugger later clarified that was never really his plan to begin with. “Y’all know I wasn’t dropping Friday. It’s a ladies’ day. Do yo’ s**t, [Cardi B],” he posted on X, to which she quote-tweeted, “And you better step next week. You got this. You know this!”

Despite all of the anticipation, there’s nonetheless so much we do not find out about UY SCUTI, equivalent to its options or tracklist. Young Thug launched its lead single, “Money On Money” that includes Future, again in April. At Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash 2025, he previewed an unreleased collaboration with Ken Carson. By September, he opened up about the place he stands with Mariah the Scientist, Lil Baby, Drake and others on the apologetic “Miss My Dogs.”