“I’m frustrated,” he said. “She just dipped off on me. Why you do that? You gonna just leave me in this house like this? You one of the main reasons I got it!”

For much of the past year, the two have painted a refreshing picture of shared bliss on social media, but Jerrika had read some compromising texts on his phone. Thug insisted his infidelities were virtual, not actual. “I just was, like, being a mack, being lame like, ‘I miss you,’ If a ho’ text me right now I’d be like: ‘What you doing? Come see me.’ But I don’t want no ho’ to see me.” Jerrika didn’t believe him. (At press time, they’d reunited.)

A few minutes later, his publicist appeared to ask if a new video, “Again,” should be posted online given Thug’s recent legal troubles. In the video, Thug is surrounded by a comical amount of guns and drugs — all props, his manager said. A month earlier, the local police and the A.T.F. had raided this same house after Thug was arrested on suspicion of making terroristic threats to a security officer at Perimeter Mall in Atlanta. In news footage, officers could be seen going through the cars on the property, and one of his sisters tried to physically block the cameraman from filming.

Thug seemed to be handing the attention with a shrug. He took a minute to call his lawyer but got voicemail. He went back to Instagram. The video went up the next day.

Another interruption: Lyor Cohen, the macher of 300, checking in via FaceTime from his New York beach house, was wearing a robe and singing “Happy Birthday.” Mr. Cohen swept the camera around his home. “You see the sailboats out there?” he asked. Thug asked him for a Red Dragon camera for his birthday. “Let me see what I can do about that, son,” Mr. Cohen replied.