Young Thug paid $5 million in cash for a seven-bedroom, seven-and-a-half-bathroom home in Cooper City, Florida, in western Broward County, The Real Deal reports, citing property records. No mortgage was recorded on the sale.
The house spans 6,000 square feet on a 2-acre lot and was completed this year. It hit the market while still under construction last year asking $8 million, was relisted in May for just under $6 million, and ultimately sold for $5 million. The property was listed with Compass agent Alan Perez; Jordan Karp of Jordan Karp LLC represented Young Thug. The seller was an LLC led by Ishwar and Suriya Anderson, who paid $420,000 for the lot in 2018.
Young Thug — legal name Jeffery Lamar Williams II — bought the home through a trust tied to an LLC he manages alongside his manager, music executive Geoff Ogunlesi, according to the property records. Structuring big-ticket purchases through a trust and an LLC keeps the deal off the public record under Young Thug's own name. A similar ownership question is playing out this year around Drake's talks to sell a stake in his OVO apparel brand.
The sale comes about two years after Young Thug's release from jail. He was incarcerated starting in May 2022 on racketeering and drug charges tied to the YSL RICO case, Georgia's longest-running criminal trial. He pleaded guilty in October 2024 to one gang charge, three drug charges, and two gun charges, and entered a no-contest plea on two additional counts, AllHipHop reports. His five-year sentence was commuted to time served, plus 15 years of probation that includes a 10-year ban from Atlanta and the surrounding metro area. Cooper City is roughly 650 miles from Atlanta by road, by Uristocrat's calculation, putting the purchase well outside the restricted zone for the length of that ban.
For comparison, formal paperwork isn't always the norm in artist-manager arrangements: Chance the Rapper's five-year legal fight with former manager Pat Corcoran ended this March with a jury awarding Chance a symbolic $35 in his countersuit, after the two spent eight years operating on an oral agreement with no written contract.
Young Thug isn't slowing down professionally. He's announced The New Generation Tour with special guest NAV, AllHipHop reports, running September 1 in Rogers, Arkansas through October 24 in Paris, including a homecoming show at Atlanta's Lakewood Amphitheater on September 20 — his first tour in more than six years. He last released the album Business Is Business in 2023.
Source: The Real Deal, AllHipHop
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