Young Thug Drops UY Scuti, First Album Since Plea Deal

Young Thug returned to music on Friday, September 26, 2025, with UY Scuti, a 20-track album that marks his first full-length release since his October 2024 plea deal and subsequent release from custody. The project, issued through YSL Records with 300 Entertainment and Atlantic Records, dropped worldwide on streaming services and in physical formats and features a star-studded list of collaborators including Cardi B, Future, 21 Savage, Travis Scott, T.I., Lil Baby, Sexyy Red and Mariah the Scientist.

UY Scuti arrives after months of delays and a high-profile legal and personal tumult that helped shape its themes. The rollout included the Future-assisted single Money on Money in April and the September single Miss My Dogs, on which Young Thug addresses and apologizes to several people in his life, including Mariah the Scientist, Lil Baby, Gucci Mane and Drake. Earlier teasers and pre-release posts saw Thug shift the album release out of deference to Cardi B, writing on X that he was not dropping on what he called a "ladies day," to which Cardi replied with encouragement.

The album is both a comeback and a corrective moment. Within hours of the release, Young Thug posted on X that...