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YoungBoy to appear in court in around a month’s time

After recently attaining a major pre-trial win in his federal gun case, NBA YoungBoy gets a trial date for the same. As per a report by Rolling Stone, the court announced on March 7 that the 22-year-old rapper will learn his fate on April 16, at Louisiana’s Middle District.

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The federal gun charges go back to a 2020 incident where the Colors rapper and 15 others were busted by the cops during a video shoot in Baton Rouge. The police found drugs, more than a dozen firearms, $47,000 in cash, and a camera with footage of Youngboy allegedly totting guns.

This comes following a big victory YoungBoy scored when U.S. District Court Chief Judge Shelly Dick declared on February 24 the video evidence seized by police was invalid, and that the video evidence was obtained illegally.

Speaking to Rolling Stones, Youngboy’s defense lawyer Drew Findling expressed his confidence in the case after the video evidence was dropped. “We’re 100 percent convinced of his innocence, and now we have to continue to evaluate our strategy,” Findling said.

He added, “the unconstitutionality of law enforcement was clearly evident to the court and resulted in a slew of evidence of being thrown out. We’re looking forward to going to court.”

It took NBA Youngboy just four years to hit the milestone.

Despite being surrounded by multiple legal troubles, Louisiana rapper NBA YoungBoy continues to break caeeer records. As a Monday (Jan. 31) tweet from Chart Data pointed out, YoungBoy is the first rapper in history to chart 20 albums on Billboard 200 in just under four and half years since his breakthrouh in 2017.

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Of the 20 albums the “Flossin” rapper has charted on Billboard 200, there are four No.1 projects including AI Youngboy 2, 38 Baby 2, Top, and Sincerely, Kentrell. There are also five Top 5s and eight Top 10s. It is worth noting that Youngboy currently has only two studio albums under his belt: Top and Sincerely Kentrell. This means the rest of the projects he has charted are commercial mixtapes and EPs.

YoungBoy started making buzz in 2016 as a teenager and had his big break the following year. Since the begining of his career, the Baton Rouge rapper has been dropping two or more projects almost every year, making his present accomplishments a result of his hard work and consistency over the time.

The multi-platinum rapper is on house arrest in Utah in connection to his Louisiana gun case. He is currently working on his third studio album which might drop in six months.

Three people were arrested at NBA YoungBoy’s house in Texas 

A house in Texas owned by NBA YoungBoy, and where his mother Sherhonda Gaulden lives, was raided by a SWAT team after a warrant was issued on Tuesday morning (January 25). According to TMZ, Youngboy’s mom wasn’t present at the time but three people were arrested at the house. 

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Although Youngboy or his mom haven’t been accused of anything, Harris Co. Sheriff’s spokesperson Thomas Gilliland says the suspects named, Roymellow Williams, Daryl Brown, and Carleon Gallien, were arrested in connection to a November shooting that left a man with non-fatal injuries to the body and head. The suspects are being charged with Aggravated Assault and Aggravated Robbery. The cops also confiscated several weapons including AR-15s, pistols, and long guns during the raid. 

YoungBoy, who’s on house arrest in Utah, is aiming at #3 on Billboard 200 with his new mixtape, Colors, which is projected to sell 69,000 album-equivalent units this week. The 22-year old rapper is currently said to be taking a six-month break from the public eye to focus on his next studio album.