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Mystikal performs on Sept. 25, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images Rapper Mystikal, real name Michael Tyler, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping a woman in 2022 at his Louisiana home.
The victim, who was in court on Tuesday, requested that the judge give the maximum sentence, according to WBRZ. Addressing the court, she said that Tyler had punched her, puller braids out of her hair, and forcibly raped her.
Following the victim’s address, Tyler told those in the courtroom, “If I did that to you, I deserve the max sentence.” The rapper was then sentenced to 20 years for third-degree rape.
In 2022, Tyler was arrested and later charged with first-degree rape, simple robbery, domestic-abuse battery, and false imprisonment. At the time, he pleaded not guilty to the charges and was scheduled to begin trial in March. However, before the trial, he entered a plea agreement, pleading guilty to lesser third-degree rape charges, a result of a deal that reduced the rapper’s potential sentence (the initial first-degree rape charge would have carried an automatic life sentence).
