HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @ar_ab_32 / Instagram AR-Ab may be regretting putting too much of his life down in the studio. On Thursday (Apri 16), the Philadelphia rapper was sentenced to 45 years in prison for his role in a drug ring, and his own words were used against him in court. Reports the Philadelphia Inquirer: A federal judge sentenced the 38-year-old rapper — whose legal name is Abdul West — to 45 years in prison, a staggering sentence for the tough-talking kingpin convicted in 2019 of turning the record label he founded, Original Block Hustlaz (OBH), into a large-scale North Philadelphia drug-trafficking organization implicated in at least one murder. But while prosecutors alleged West had ordered the 2017 slaying of a drug-world rival, they did not charge him with that cr...