T he chatter around streaming bots grew noticeably louder in August 2025, when a prison phone call between Young Thug and an unidentified associate leaked online. During the conversation, the Young Stoner Life Records founder claimed he’d spent $50,000 to boost streams for his artist Gunna’s January 2022 album, DS4Ever, to ensure it would debut atop the Billboard 200 chart. Sure enough, the project landed at Number One with more than 150,000 album-equivalent units moved in its opening week,

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