Despite being less active on the music front in recent years, Thug’s YSL RICO incident has caused Quan to reflect on his career, especially his lyrics. In a conversation with Sway’s Universe in 2022, Quan revealed that he had rethought the way he wrote his lyrics after his former partner’s legal troubles, mainly because he didn’t want his children to misunderstand their father. “Well, first of all, I really feel that we should protect black art,” he said. “Music is music. Anyway, a lot of these songs are written in the third person. I could have seen it, you could have seen it, and I also say free Thugger, man. Free YFN Lucci too. Because at the same time, those guys still have families. They have daughters and mothers who depend on them so I don’t want anyone to be in their situation.”