Young Thug has clarified what some critics have been calling a diss against fellow rapper Saweetie on his latest album, Business is Business.
The album — which dropped on Friday (June 23), as the YSL rapper continues to sit behind bars — features a song called “Want Me Dead,” in which the embattled rapper appears to take a direct hit at the female rap superstar.
“Bitch, you cheated, don’t speak when you see me/ I’m in the Turbo S, no GP (skrt)/ I’m getting head from the Ch-, I mean, CC/ My n-gga ain’t even trying to hit Saweetie (Nah)/ That bitch turn me off, no kizzy (no kizzy),” he raps on the track, according to the Genius lyrics page.
But Young Thug took to Twitter that same day to clear the air. “Her name is Saweetie. I said sweetie #businessisbusiness,” he wrote. “Also, that song is 6 years old.”
While Young Thug has made clear that he’s not taking shots at Saweetie, he seems to have dissed his former compatriot, Gunna, on other songs on the Business is Business album.
While it’s worth noting that the songs were likely recorded before he was arrested in May 2022, when there were no snitching allegations being levied against Gunna, fans seem to think the rapper’s reference to snitching on his new song “Jonesboro” may be a thinly-veiled diss aimed at him.
“Y’all n-ggas just a bunch of dykes, fucking n-ggas/ N-ggas told and he was my homie/ I can’t miss him/ Ain’t nobody feel him,” Young Thug raps on the track.
Opinions over it being a sub were divided. “Question is this the only shot at Gunna? This can’t be the only shot,” one fan wrote, while another said: “So y’all are saying Young Thug escaped prison to record a Gunna sub and then sneaked back in?”
Gunna has been batting off snitch claims ever since he pleaded out in the ongoing YSL RICO case in December, seven months after being arrested. The “Drip Too Hard” rapper even recently assured fans he didn’t rat on his new album, A Gift & A Curse – which was notably still released via Thug’s YSL label.
Various songs on the new album find Gunna addressing the “snitch” allegations head-on. On the track “I Was Just Thinking,” he opens up about crying over Young Thug’s situation and the “lies” people are saying about him.
“That’s four walls talkin’ to you, tellin’ you you gone/ Only I done criеd, ’cause this feelin’ for my bro (King Slime)/ And you know my mind, you done watched that n-gga grow/ I know you hear the lies, it’s your lil’ brother, my folk/ Yeah, I had popped out, but don’t let ’em say I told,” he raps.
