Mariah the Scientist says her relationship with fiancé Young Thug is stronger since he was locked up in Cobb County. Young Thug was arrested on gang-related RICO charges in May 2022.
“I think in the beginning I was so sensitive about it. I was so emotional, I was crying all the time,” she said during an appearance on the Way Up With Angela Yee podcast. “It was like you can’t be crying when you got a man in jail because it’s going to make him sad. So you can’t be acting like that.”
The aspiring R&B singer, real name Mariah Amani Buckles, said she visits Thugga in the Cobb County Jail once a week and they speak daily on the phone.
“It’s almost like jail solidified our relationship,” Mariah The Scientist told Angela Yee. “I’m willing to wait it out because I feel like he’s the one. If I didn’t really see that in him, I probably wouldn’t.”
Young Thug and Mariah the Scientist began dating in 2021. He previously got engaged to his on-again, off-again girlfriend Jerrika Karlae in 2015. They split for good in December 2020.
The 32-year-old rapper has six children by four women.
Mariah, 26, recently released her single, “From A Woman”, as a cover to Thugga’s track “From A Man.”
Her album, To Be Eaten Alive, dropped today (Oct. 27) on Epic Records.
