



The document asks both federal and state legislators to adopt bills that limit the use of rap lyrics as evidence in a court of law. The Petition to Protect Black Art is a document co-written by 300 Entertainment co-founder and CEO Kevin Liles - who first signed Thug and helped get his label YSL off the ground as a subsidiary company - and Atlanta Records COO Julie Greenwald. Everybody please sign the Protect Black Art petition and keep praying for us. “I always use my music as a form of artistic expression, and I see now that Black artists and rappers don’t have that freedom. “You know, this isn’t about just me or YSL,” he said in a prerecorded address screened at Hot 97’s Summer Jam. On June 12, Young Thug made a plea from jail. Photo: Prince Williams/Filmmagic/Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for MRC Young Thug (legal name Jeffery Lamar Williams) and Gunna (legal name Sergio Giavanni Kitchens)
