Young Thug has topped the Billboard 200 albums chart with the follow-up to his Slime Language (2017) album.
Slime Language 2 debuted at No. 1 this week with 109,000 equivalent album units sold, according to Billboard.com.
Though Young Thug is the only artist credited on the set, the album features his Young Stoner Life (YSL) labelmates, Gunna, Lil Uzi Vert and others.
Gunna appears on seven of the album’s tracks. The 27-year-old rapper grew up in the College Park area of Atlanta, where he was influenced musically by Future Hendrix.
Thugga and Gunna are unusually close and are the subjects of mean-spirited rumors about their relationship.
Although Thugga is known to wear feminine attire, he fathered six children by four different women, and was engaged to aspiring rapper Jerrika Karlae in 2015. They split in 2017.
Jerrika (pictured 2nd from left) and Rayna Bass (center) joined Gunna (left) and Thug at their album release party in Atlanta on Monday.
Young Thug and Gunna teamed up to post bail for 30 inmates incarcerated at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail for various non-violent crimes.
“We just woke up and went to the jail with the lawyer… and got as many people as we can out,” Young Thug told Channel 2 Action News.
“This is where we are from…,” Gunna, real name Sergio Kitchens, told WSB-TV2. “You never know what somebody’s been through. There was people sitting out three or four years and couldn’t get out on a bond.”
“If they did the crime, then they can do the time, then it’s all right. But it’s like, you’re giving them a bond higher than what they stole,” added Young Thug, a 29-year-old Leo who was born Jeffrey Williams.
The freed inmates will reportedly appear in an upcoming music video.
The rappers insist they didn’t bail out the inmates as a stunt to promote their new album. They say they plan to bail out other low-level offenders in the weeks and months to come.
