Mystikal has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to third-degree rape in Louisiana.
The rapper, whose legal name is Michael Lawrence Tyler, received the sentence on Tuesday in connection with a 2022 assault at his home in Prairieville, Louisiana, about 18 miles from Baton Rouge.
He had been held without bond at the Ascension Parish Jail since his arrest.
Mystikal, 55, pleaded guilty in March under a deal that capped his sentence at 20 years, and the agreement reduced the charge from first-degree rape, which carries an automatic life sentence in Louisiana. Days before sentencing, Mystikal asked a judge to withdraw his plea, saying he “did not have sufficient opportunity to fully consider the consequences,” WBRZ reported.
The woman he assaulted spoke in court before the judge handed down the punishment, and asked for the maximum sentence, and said Mystikal punched her, choked her, pulled out her braids, and forcibly raped her inside his home.
“If I did that to you, I deserve the max sentence,” Mystikal said in response.
Mystikal rose to fame in the 1990s and earned Grammy nominations in the early 2000s. In 2003, he pleaded guilty to sexual battery and served six years in prison.
