{"id":5437,"date":"2025-09-24T23:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/young-thug-metro-boomin-rape-trial-1236074159\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T23:24:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:24:59","slug":"young-thug-metro-boomin-rape-trial-1236074159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/young-thug-metro-boomin-rape-trial-1236074159\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Thug Supports Metro Boomin at Civil Rape Trial in Los\u00a0Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/young-thug\">Young Thug<\/a> gears up for the release of his <em>UY SCUTI <\/em>album later this week, Thugger made a stop in Los Angeles federal court to support his friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/metro-boomin\">Metro Boomin <\/a>(real name Leland Wayne) on Wednesday (Sept. 24) as the producer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/metro-boomin-rape-trial-mistrial-motion-filed-statement\/\">civil rape lawsuit trial<\/a> is now underway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLegal reporter Meghann Cuniff spotted Thugger outside the courtroom when he confirmed he was present to support Metro Boomin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cYoung Thug is here to support Metro Boomin in his civil sexual assault trial,\u201d Cuniff wrote. \u201cI saw him in the security line when I was walking out for the break, and I did a double take because whoa. He confirmed he\u2019s here to support his friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThugger and the St. Louis native have long been close friends and collaborators, as Metro has joined forces behind the boards with Thug on tracks like \u201cTrance,\u201d \u201cHercules,\u201d \u201cMetro Spider,\u201d \u201cOh U Went,\u201d \u201cParade on Cleveland\u201d and \u201cLove You More.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Young Thug is here to support Metro Boomin in his civil sexual assault trial.<\/p>\n<p>I saw him in the security line when I was walking out for the break, and I did a double take because whoa.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed he&#8217;s here to support his friend. I mentioned Brian Steel and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThuggerDaily?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@ThuggerDaily<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m1HjpZSaDv\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/m1HjpZSaDv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meghanncuniff\/status\/1970923850822189384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">September 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFiled in 2024, the civil suit finds Vanessa LeMaistre claiming she was under the influence of Xanax and alcohol at a Metro Boomin studio session in 2016 and woke up to the producer raping her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMetro has maintained that their intercourse was consensual and says this is a case of a \u201cclassic celebrity shakedown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAttorneys for LeMaistre are seeking a mistrial, claiming that Metro\u2019s legal reps didn\u2019t have judicial approval before making opening statements about their prior sexual history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRepresented by the powerhouse Wigdor firm, Metro\u2019s lawyers allege that LeMaistre came up with the idea to sue the producer while hallucinating on ayahuasca.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs for Thugger, he\u2019s set to make his musical comeback with the release of <em>UY SCUTI <\/em>on Friday (Sept. 26). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Young Thug gears up for the release of his UY SCUTI album later this week, Thugger made a stop in Los Angeles federal court to support his friend Metro&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,96,94,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre-hiphop","category-music","category-music-news","category-rb-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}