Atlanta rap needs a defibrillator—the kind of electric jolt only Young Thug, Gunna, and Lil Baby working together again could deliver. Once the heartbeat of trap’s dominance in the late 2010s and early 2020s, the city’s biggest rappers aren’t moving in sync anymore.
Thug’s leaked jail calls have set back men who swear they “don’t gossip” by at least a decade. Lil Baby has gone radio silent, missing his album drop date amid rumors of retirement. And Gunna? He’s thriving—but without the familiar faces who once amplified his sound.
The truth is, these three Atlanta rappers always felt strongest when orbiting each other. Fans miss that energy. Which begs the question: could Young Thug and Gunna ever reconnect?
On September 11, Thug dropped “Miss My Dogs,” a track where he tries to patch things up with some of the biggest names he burned in those jail call leaks—Mariah the Scientist, Drake, Lil Baby, Future, 21 Savage, and Gucci Mane.
But fans immediately noticed one name missing: Gunna. “He needs to apologize to Gunna then it’s valid,” one comment read.
A public apology still feels far-fetched. However, ironically, those jail call leaks led Thug to experience some of the ostracism that Gunna faced post-jail from his Atlanta peers. If nothing else, that perspective might plant the first seed for reconciliation.
On the Perspektives with Bank podcast, Thug admitted why the music’s been slow: “Because I just don’t got my twin, bro. I don’t got my friends, bro. I’m just f—ked up.”
On that same three-hour podcast, Thug gave his most complicated take on Gunna yet—balancing heartbreak, anger, and lingering brotherhood. His feelings run on contradictions. And contradictions, in rap, are just another word for unfinished business.
Thug doesn’t hate Gunna…
“I poured so much into that n***a I can’t even hate him,” Thug admitted. He thought he hated Gunna while in jail, until his girl told him otherwise: “You don’t hate him, you just mad at him.” Despite everything, he added, “I don’t wish no ill will on him—no ill feelings at all.”
But he wants an explanation…
At the same time, Thug keeps pressing the same point: why hasn’t Gunna explained himself? “Even if I don’t want to hear it, you still supposed to be a real n***a and say it. How can you just do what you did to me and then just go live your life? Like ain’t nothing happened?”
Thug’s forgiven Gunna before…
It’s not the first time Thug’s had to “find a new way to love” Gunna. He admitted there were past violations he overlooked, honoring a promise to their late friend King Troup to always protect him.
A leaked snippet from August even suggested Thug had another diss for Gunna lined up on Lil Baby’s never-released album. But if anything, that just proves the point: the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference. And Thug is anything but indifferent.
But he can’t forgive this…yet?
Still, the wound cuts deep. When Big Bank told him it sounded like he wanted to forgive Gunna, Thug cut him off: “No, I don’t. I wish he did something lighter so I could forgive him…I done cried many nights over this shit.”
It’s messy, but there’s a pattern: even while saying he can’t forgive, Thug refuses to say he hates him. That’s the kind of contradiction that, given the right conversation or apology, leaves the door cracked—just barely—for a future reconciliation.
