Rapper Mystikal has been handed down a 20-year prison sentence for the 2022 rape of a woman at his Prairieville, Louisiana, home in 2022.
After pleading guilty to third-degree rape back in March, on Tuesday (June 15), the former No Limit Records artist received the maximum sentence, which was requested by his victim. The woman claimed she was forcibly raped and had braids pulled from her hair at the time of the incident. The woman, whose keys and phone were taken during the rape, was allowed to leave after being forced to send the rapper money via CashApp.
Mystikal, legal name Michael Tyler, also spoke to the court, although the 55-year-old also attempted to speak to the victim.
“If I did that to you, I deserve the max sentence," the “Here I Go” rapper said, per WBRZ. Mystikal originally faced a life sentence had he been convicted of charges including first-degree rape, domestic abuse battery by strangulation and simple robbery.
In July 2022, Mystikal was arrested and accused of sexual assault. Upon his arrest, the rapper received several charges, including first-degree rape and false imprisonment, and was held without bond.
Mystikal has a lengthy history of sex abuse allegations that go back as far as the early 2000s. In 2003, the rapper pleaded guilty to battery after a hairstylist claimed that he and 2 bodyguards forced her to perform sex acts on them after being accused of extortion. The rapper would be sentenced to 6 years the following year.
Over a decade later, Mystikal would be charged with raping a woman in Shreveport, Louisiana, in October 2016, which was later dropped. In a 2021 interview with Associated Press, Mystikal said that the “legal system is broke” and claimed he “played guilty” in his first conviction.
