ATLANTA — After his son entered a non-negotiated guilty plea to some charges Thursday in the YSL RICO case -- in part a legal maneuver to get a more favorable sentence from the judge than what was being offered by prosecutors, which largely succeeded -- Young Thug's father had a take that might have been surprising to some.
Though his son had now gained his freedom, with a jail sentence commuted to time served and 15 years of probation (with a backloaded prison sentence still on the table if he doesn't successfully complete probation), Jeffery Williams Sr. said he "still wanted to fight."
"Let's keep fighting, you know, let's make them continue to embarrass themselves," the father said.
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Young Thug's attorney, Brian Steel, spoke in court Thursday about how he too wanted to keep going to obtain a not guilty verdict from a jury, but that the strain of two-and-a-half years of detention already for the rapper in Cobb County Jail was too much to continue enduring with the potential to go home, finally, so close.
Williams Sr. -- Young Thug's legal name is Jeffery Williams, named after his dad -- said he agreed with Steel.
"I feel great that he's going home, I feel great that he's going home. But at the same token, I still wanted to fight," the father said. "But that's his decision."
He added he has "never tried to interfere with his decisions."
"I just try to give him the knowledge of making the best decisions that he sees fit for him, and I support it," Williams Sr. said.
The father also spoke about his son getting back to work as a recording artist, "to get back to our normal life."
"We're gonna have to put in some more work, we got to put in a lot of work," Williams Sr. said.
One of the conditions of Young Thug's sentence was that he is to be banned from Atlanta. His father took particular exception to that.
"I'm totally against that, because this is where he's from," Williams Sr. said. "To see her (DA Fani Willis) take a man away from where he's from, to have to go live somewhere else, that's offensive to me. I'm really offended by that."
To that end, the father also made it known how he feels about DA Willis, who brought the YSL RICO case more than two years ago -- wearing a hat of Willis' opponent in the election this November, Courtney Kramer, and vocally endorsing the DA's race challenger.
He said "we need to get rid of the poison that's in our system."
"And that's the District Attorney's Office," Williams Sr. said.