Mariah The Scientist is opening up about her relationship with Young Thug and shares how she’s dealing with the rapper being locked up.
While appearing on Way Up With Angela Yee, Mariah opened up about how she first felt when Young Thug went to jail after being rapped up in a RICO. “I think in the beginning I was so sensitive about it. I was so emotional I was crying all time and 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,” the artist shared.
During the interview Mariah also shared that Young Thug gets one visit every week and she makes sure her schedule is clear to see every week also adding that they speak on the phone “everyday, all day.” Angela Yee then went on to ask her if she feels like their relationship got closer since Thug has been locked up. “For sure it’s almost like jail solidified our relationship,” Mariah said. Towards the end of the clip she also explained why she’s willing to wait on Young Thug no matter how long it takes for him to get out of jail. “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.”
She concluded with revealing that Young Thug told her that he doesn’t know how long this process will take so she can go be free if she wanted to, but Mariah said, “I’m not doing that, I’m here.”
Young Thug has been in Cobb County Jail since May of last year. He spent his first eight months there awaiting the proposed January 9 start date of his court proceedings, and has remained there for the past eight while Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville continues to conduct extensive juror search that’s set to make the YSL trial the longest in Georgia history.
Steering the case against Thug and his YSL co-defendants is Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Elected in 2020, Willis has repeatedly voiced her intention to address her district’s crime rate. “It does not matter what your notoriety is, what your fame is,” she said at a press conference announcing the YSL Rico case. “If you come to Fulton County, Georgia, you commit crimes, and certainly if those crimes are in furtherance of a street gang, then you are going to become a target and a focus of this district attorney’s office.”