Quavo tried to play peacemaker for Atlanta, and Young Thug sent the job right back to him. Answering on Instagram Stories, Thug made it clear he doesn’t see the Gunna situation as his mess to clean up.
“How Uma fix some shit I didn’t break qua?” Young Thug wrote. He followed it with a defense of how he’s treated the people around him, denying that he ever steered anyone wrong or betrayed them.
The exchange started with Quavo. He reposted a clip of Offset’s appearance on Popcast, tagged Thug, and wrote a simple message on top: “We all family.”
Thug reposted that appeal with his reply attached. He spoke to Quavo directly, not to Gunna, and didn’t mention any plans to talk things through with his former protégé. “I been a real man since day one,” he added in the same message.
The roots of this go back to the YSL racketeering case, which put Thug, Gunna and a long list of co-defendants under indictment in 2022. Gunna walked out of jail in December 2022 after taking an Alford plea. That meant pleading guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge while still maintaining his innocence.
Gunna’s side of the story has stayed consistent. In a statement released through his lawyer at the time, he denied cooperating with prosecutors, giving a statement, or agreeing to testify against anyone.
He also said he had no intention of taking part in the trial, and he never took the stand against Thug during the drawn-out proceedings in Atlanta.
For Thug, that hasn’t been enough. During his September 2025 interview with Big Bank, he talked at length about investing in Gunna’s career and helping provide housing for Gunna and his mother. He explained that the plea left him hurt, given everything he felt he’d put in.
Even then, he stopped short of wishing Gunna any harm. He just declined to sit down with him and kept objecting to how his former collaborator handled the case.
Quavo’s push makes sense from where he stands. He came up alongside Offset in Migos, a group that defined a whole era of Atlanta rap, and the city’s biggest names have spent years splintered by legal battles and personal fallout. A public “we all family” from him carries weight, even if it didn’t land the way he hoped.
Thug isn’t the only one keeping his distance. Lil Baby, who teamed with Gunna on the 2018 collaborative project Drip Harder, previously said he’d keep his own dispute with Gunna private. His reasoning was that airing it out would hurt both artists and Atlanta itself.
So far, Gunna hasn’t publicly responded to Quavo’s appeal or to Thug’s reply. Quavo hasn’t followed up either, which leaves the door technically open.
Right now, though, the person who’d need to walk through it is saying he never broke anything in the first place.
