Rapper Mystikal sentenced to 20 years in prison after raping woman in Louisiana

Rapper Mystikal — champion known for his 2000 deed “Shake Ya Ass” — has been sentenced to 2 decades down bars over a 2022 rape case.

According to ABC connection WBRZ, nan Louisiana hitmaker was handed down a 20-year condemnation connected Tuesday for third-degree rape.

Per nan outlet, nan rapper, whose fixed sanction is Michael Lawrence Tyler, responded successful tribunal Tuesday aft nan unfortunate requested nan maximum sentence.

“If I did that to you, I merit nan max sentence,” he said.

The Grammy-nominated rapper pled guilty successful March successful an Ascension Parish, Louisiana tribunal — though connected Friday, up of nan sentencing, Tyler’s lawyer revenge documents asking to withdraw nan blameworthy plea.

Per WBRZ, nan mobility stated that nan musician “did not person capable opportunity to afloat see nan consequences” of nan plea woody anterior to accepting it, which downgraded nan complaint from nan intial charges of first-degree rape.

The filing — which was dismissed — insisted that Tyler, 55, was “under important affectional distress and felt important unit to make an contiguous decision” erstwhile he agreed to nan plea deal.

A rep for Tyler did not instantly respond to Page Six’s petition for remark connected Tuesday evening.

Prosecutors successful nan lawsuit opted against pursuing further charges, including mendacious imprisonment, elemental criminal damage, elemental robber, and home maltreatment artillery by strangulation and elemental robbery, done a filing called arsenic nolle prosequi, according to People.

The encounter, which took spot successful 2022, near nan unfortunate pinch insignificant injuries, for which she was hospitalized.

“According to Sheriff Bobby Webre, connected July 30, astatine astir 11:58 pm, deputies pinch nan Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to an area infirmary successful reference to a intersexual assault,” read a property release from nan Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office publication astatine nan time.

The rapper has been held without enslaved astatine nan Ascension Parish Jail since 2022.