| Net Worth | $8,000,000 |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Jeffery Lamar Williams |
| Date of Birth/Age | August 16, 1991 (Age 27) |
| Source of wealth | Music, songwriting, YouTube advertisem*nts, and production |
| Height | 6’3” |
| Country of origin | U.S |
| State/City of origin | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Last Updated | 2019 |
Net Worth
Young Thug’s net worth is 8 million dollars.
How Much Does Young Thug Make a Year?
He earns about $1 million a year, depending on his record sales, advertising revenue, and tours.
How Does Young Thug Make his Money?
Young Thug earns his money from his music, YouTube ad revenue, tours, and fashion endorsem*nts. He makes much of his money from YouTube advertisem*nts, as his videos are very popular.
He is said to have made $5 million from YouTube alone during his career. He has also made money working with and promoting Calvin Klein – about $300,00 a year.
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He also started his own label, YSL, and earns money from deals and releases.
He’s also earned over $3 million from his tours and shows. He has released or featured on fifty-three singles and eighteen mix tapes and made about $1 million in total from these sales.
House and Cars
Young Thug owns fifteen cars including a Corvette Sting Ray, a Maybach, a Porsche, and a Bentley Continental GT. He also purchased new cars for all ten of his siblings and his father.
He owns a $2.4 million 11,000 square foot house in Atlanta, Georgia. The house has six bedrooms, a theater, and indoor and outdoor pools.
Introduction
Young Thug is known for his modern hip-hop style and his rejection of conventional fashion. He wears both male and female high fashion attire, with no regard for anyone’s opinion on it.
He prefers to stay an original and express himself in his own way, through music and fashion. He answers questions about his sexuality and clothes with attitude and flair.
Though still young, he has been moving up in the music world and gaining recognition.
Early Life
Young Thug was born Jeffery Lamar Williams on August 16, 1991, in Atlanta, Georgia. He has ten siblings and was raised in difficult circ*mstances.
He had a troubled childhood and was expelled from school in the sixth grade for assaulting a teacher. He spent four years in a juvenile facility for this. He became involved in drugs and gambling after his release.
However, after the birth of his first child, he decided to pursue music to make a better life for himself and his family. He was nineteen when he started making music.
Personal life
Young Thug is widely known for his individual fashion choices, often wearing a mix of traditionally male and female clothes and nail polish.
He has stated he doesn’t believe in gender and talked about how people need to be free from stereotypes. He has six children by four women but is currently not romantically linked to any one woman.
He was previously engaged to Jerrika Karlae, a fashion designer, but the two split up in 2017.
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Young Thug has faced legal trouble in his career. He was charged with breach of contract, possession, and with assault and battery as well.
This hasn’t stopped him from releasing more mix tapes and single and to continuing with his philanthropic pursuits.
He has donated the proceeds of a concert to charity and supports his friends and family back in his hometown.
He has spoken repeatedly about the need for famous people to remember where they come from and is very close to his family.
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Career
Young Thug started his rap career in 2010, with an appearance on TruRoyal’s “She Can Go.” He followed this with three mixtapes in 2011 and was signed to Gucci Mane’s 1017 Brick Squad Records and Atlantic Records in 2013.
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This fourth mixtape “1017 Thug” was a critical hit and was mentioned on best mix tape and singles lists by Pitchfork magazine, Spin, and Rolling Stone. He began touring and recorded songs with Kanye West.
He continued to release singles and mix tapes for the next few years, gaining recognition from national music media.
He featured on several compilations for Cash Money Records and Mass Appeal Records, working with Lil Wayne and A$AP Ferg.
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His mix tapes, “Barter 6” and “I’m Up” both hit number twenty-two on the US Billboard charts.
His next three mix tapes, “Slime Season 2”, “Slime Season 3”, and “Jeffery” came out at number seven and eight on the charts in 2016.
He also recorded singles with Wiz Kalifa and Usher, giving him even more recognition and attention.
He released the mix tapes “Super Slimey” with Future and “Beautiful Thugger Girls” in 2017. Both debuted high on the charts and received great reviews from music critics.
He also released three Eps between 2017 and 2018 as well as over a dozen singles.
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Interesting Facts
- He was featured on Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2018.
- He changed his name to SEX in 2018.
- He helped write Childish Gambino’s “This is America” which won a Grammy in 2019.
Highlights
- In 2014 and 2015, Young Thug was nominated for four different BET awards.
- In 2017 he was nominated for and won four awards, from the MTV awards and the UK Music video awards.
- In 2018, he won for more awards from MTV and the American Music Awards.
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Favorite Quotes from Young Thug
“In my world, of course, it don’t matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.”
“I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don’t.”
“I didn’t used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We’d perform, and I’d be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain’t never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.”
Tips for success from Young Thug
“I don’t want my kids saying, ‘My dad was a gangster, so I need to be a gangster. I would rather mine say, ‘My dad was a stunna, so I need to be a stunna.'”
“When you see them be successful, however small, you say to yourself, wow. And everything becomes possible. Never denigrate, to say we will not succeed.”
“I repeat it until it works. It is important to record, otherwise you lose ideas. That’s why I never stay away from the studio, I always [have] something to ask.”
