Instead of scrutinizing the permutations of snitching, our outrage would be better served against the forces that push poor people toward the streets and its backward rulebook.
indictment elicited a unified response from within the rap world. Fans and other musicians resoundingly proclaimed “Free Gunna.” But after his release in December, following an Alford Plea deal which gave him time served and a five-year suspended sentence, few people in the rap world celebrated. Since footage of the plea hearing leaked, and the world saw him affirm Fulton County prosecutors’ assertion that YSL is a gang and “YSL must end,” he’s been demeaned as a “snitch.
, have unfollowed him on Instagram. Fans believe Lil Durk threw a sly diss at Gunna “telling” in a recent song snippet. His first Instagram post of 2023 was derided by those who called him out for putting “YSL the label” in his caption after his Alford plea statement declared YSL a gang. Rap fans, few of which have any proximity to the criminal lifestyle that fascinates them, have relentlessly ridiculed him as “a rat.
To be clear, Gunna stated that he has no plans to testify against YSL codefendants. His Alford plea solely applies to his case, and a close source has confirmed that he won’t be testifying during the trial — which is the only way the plea statement could hurt any YSL codefendants. But in a music world rife with abusers, homophobes, antisemites, and “anti-’cancel culture’” apologists for all these things, cooperating in any fashion is the third rail that excommunicates someone from the scene.
As damning comments go, his statement isn’t in the same stratosphere as someone taking the stand in court, doing a press conference announcing that someone had them a shot, or stating someone is trying to kill them in an interview or song — which has all happened inWhat’s happening to Gunna is a disheartening glimpse of an artist being squeezed between the sides of the criminal justice system and the rap world, neither of which are as humane as they feign to be.
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