The US rapper Mystikal on Tuesday pleaded guilty to third-degree rape in connection with a case that led to his arrest in 2022.
Mystikal – whose given name is Michael Tyler – faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in a state courthouse outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana, according to reports from local news outlets WBRZ and WAFB.
The 55-year-old Tyler had originally been charged with more serious offenses, to which he pleaded not guilty: first-degree rape, simple robbery, domestic abuse battery and false imprisonment.
Tyler’s guilty plea was reportedly part of a deal that reduced the overall severity of the case against him. If convicted as originally charged, he would have faced mandatory life imprisonment.
Mystikal scored a global hit in 2000 with Shake Ya Ass and subsequently was nominated for two Grammy awards. The single had a memorable cameo in the Hugh Grant, Toni Collette and Nicholas Hoult film About a Boy.
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