2024 has been a dramatic year in the hip-hop world, with several high-profile court cases involving rappers. It looks like there will be more big legal headlines in 2025, as multiple artists are set to go on trial over cases that, if convicted, will see them become football players.
While Young Thug is making headlines in 2024 when he finally ends his nearly three-year legal saga in the YSL RICO case, pleading guilty and being sentenced to 15 years of probation, there are other high-profile cases that are just getting started and will go into Try the next calendar. Diddy’s legal troubles dominated the headlines. In addition to being indicted more than two dozen times over the past year for sexual assault, the Bad Boy Entertainment founder was arrested on September 16 and charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transportation for prostitution. After pleading not guilty, the embattled music mogul plans to take the case to trial in 2025.
Lil Durk started 2024 on a high note after winning his first Grammy Award. Now, the Chicago rapper is in the legal battle of a lifetime after he was arrested and charged with masterminding a murder-for-hire plot to kill Quando Rondo in August 2022. pleaded guilty and will contest the charges.
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