Young Thug’s attorneys defend against a lawsuit from Lil Wayne’s tour bus driver over a 2015 shooting that prosecutors cited as a YSL gang crime.
Young Thug is fighting to keep his money after a decade-old lawsuit tied to the Lil Wayne tour bus shooting refuses to disappear from the courtroom.
His attorneys showed up in Cobb County on Monday to defend against claims that he and Birdman orchestrated the April 2015 attack on Wayne’s bus as it left an Atlanta concert, and the case is far from settled.
The lawsuit comes from Alvin Lewis, the tour bus driver who was behind the wheel when bullets tore through the vehicle, and he’s seeking damages for emotional distress even though nobody got hurt that night.
The core issue is whether Young Thug and Birdman paid Peewee Roscoe to carry out the shooting.
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Lewis’s legal team argues they did, pointing to jail phone calls between Young Thug and Peewee Roscoe that allegedly show him trying to gain street credibility and being rewarded for staying quiet.
Young Thug’s defense counters that a $25,000 payment for Peewee Roscoe’s legal fees was simply helping out a childhood friend, nothing more.
The tension between the artists before the shooting matters to Lewis’s case.
About five days before the shooting, Young Thug posted an Instagram recording with taunts and threats directed at Wayne.
Lil Wayne was furious that Birdman and Cash Money Records were blocking the release of his album, and he sued for lost revenue, eventually winning a settlement of over $10 million in 2018.
Peewee Roscoe initially pleaded guilty to gang charges in 2018 and got 10 years in prison, but Georgia’s Supreme Court reversed that conviction later that year.
He later accepted a plea deal in the YSL RICO case in December 2024, pleading guilty to RICO, gun, and drug charges. He was ultimately sentenced to time served in that case.
According to Courthouse News Service, Judge Eric Brewton will decide whether there is enough evidence to proceed to trial.
The lawsuit represents another financial headache for Young Thug, who faced years of legal battles in the YSL RICO case before taking a plea deal in October 2024.