Rapper Young Thug pleaded guilty to gang, drug and gun charges on Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia.

The 33-year-old Grammy-winning artist, whose given name is Jeffery Williams, entered his pleas without reaching a deal with prosecutors after negotiations between the two sides broke down, chief prosecutor Adriane Love said. That leaves the punishment entirely up to the judge.

Young Thug pleaded guilty to one gang charge, three drug charges and two weapons charges. He also entered a plea to another gang charge and a racketeering conspiracy charge, meaning he decided to plead no contest to those charges and is accepting punishment for them.

The judge heard from Love and defense attorney Brian Steel before making a sentencing decision.

Young Thug, a hugely successful rapper, started his own record label, Young Stoner Life or YSL. Prosecutors have said he also co-founded a violent criminal street gang and that YSL stands for Young Slime Life.

He was charged two years ago in a sweeping indictment accusing him and more than two dozen other people of conspiring to violate Georgia’s anti-racketeering law. He was also charged with gang, drug and gun crimes.

Young Thug’s plea comes nearly a year after prosecutors began introducing evidence in the trouble-plagued trial. Jury selection at the Atlanta courthouse began in January 2023 and lasted nearly ten months. The trial of six defendants began last November with opening statements, and prosecutors have since called dozens of witnesses.

Three of his co-defendants had already pleaded guilty this week after reaching agreements with prosecutors. The pleas still leave the fate of two other co-defendants undecided.

Nine people charged in the indictment accepted plea deals before the trial began. Twelve others are being tried separately. Prosecutors dropped charges against one suspect after he was convicted of murder in an unrelated case.