December 05, 2000
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Reese LaFlare has been mistaken as Young Thug by a local news outlet in Texas.
On Saturday (January 7), the Atlanta native took to Twitter to clear up an error Fox Houston made after the news station used a photo of Reese LaFlare for the featured image of a report about Young Thug’s upcoming RICO trial. Along with firmly requesting that his likeness no longer be used in connection with news about the YSL RICO case, Reese LaFlare also appeared to make light of the situation by trolling the tweet Fox Houston shared — which has since been deleted.
“Stop using my picture,” Reese LaFlare wrote in his initial reply to the tweet before doubling down and writing in a separate quote tweet, “Y’all gotta stop using my picture.” He then started engaging with other users and replying to the reactions in their tweets, which ranged from sheer confusion to disbelief. “That Nigga is HIM!!… free my brother Jeffery!!,” Reese LaFlare wrote in a reply to a user who questioned who he was after seeing Fox Houston’s tweet.
In addition to simply tweeting “Free Jeffrey Williams,” he also shared another pair of follow-up tweets, which included a photo of himself, Young Thug and Childish Gambino, further rallying a call for the freedom of the So Much Fun lyricist along with yet another snappy retort trolling the entire saga.
“I mean I do have a YSL chain on in the pic but cmon now [Annoyed face emoji].”
Reese LAFLARE calls out Fox Houston when they mistake him for Young Thughttps://t.co/52WCdDsvQr pic.twitter.com/xqvUIe9brW
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) January 8, 2023