Young Thug Will Return to Atlanta as a ‘Hometown Hero’ For Upcoming Benefit Concert

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The announcement comes 1 week aft Thug's escaped show successful beforehand of Atlanta's Fulton County Courthouse.

Young Thug attends a Back-to-School Event astatine Hosea Helps connected August 2, 2025 successful Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Prince Williams/WireImage)

Young Thug announced connected Monday (Oct. 6) that he’ll beryllium performing a “Hometown Hero” payment performance astatine Atlanta’s State Farm Arena connected Dec. 16.

The payment performance announcement connected State Farm Arena’s Instagram account is billed arsenic “Young Thug & Friends.” Tickets are acceptable to spell connected merchantability Wednesday, Oct. 8 astatine 10 a.m. EST connected Ticketmaster’s website.

The announcement arrives soon aft Thugger dropped his 4th workplace medium UY Scuti, which helium released connected Sept. 26 via Young Stoner Life Records/300 Entertainment. UY Scuti earned the rapper his ninth apical 10 album connected the Billboard 200, with the acceptable debuting astatine No. 6 with 52,000 equivalent medium units earned. UY Scuti also debuted astatine No. 5 connected Top Streaming Albums and No. 6 connected Top Album Sales.

The 21-track LP included erstwhile singles “Money connected Money” (featuring Future), which reached No. 39 connected the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 10 connected Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and “Miss My Dogs” arsenic good arsenic much collaborations with Mariah the Scientist, Cardi B, Sexyy Red, Lil Baby, 21 Savage, Travis Scott and more.

Last Sunday (Sept. 28) Thugger delivered a escaped performance successful beforehand of Atlanta’s Fulton County Courthouse — wherever helium was precocious connected proceedings successful the YSL RICO case — arsenic good arsenic a passionate plea to halt the unit successful his hometown. “This spot shaped maine — changed my beingness … Shout-out to the full constabulary academy for letting maine execute here,” helium said during the show, wherever helium performed a fewer UY Scuti cuts and older hits similar “Digits.”

“This is not the spot to beryllium connected the atrocious side, beingness is overmuch much than this. That’s wherefore I wanted to bash it here,” helium said during his performance. “This isn’t a flex… This spot changed my beingness forever.”