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AR-Ab Sentenced To 45 Years For Running Drug Ring With Murder Ties

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...

Culture Vulture Cover: AR-Ab Denies His VladTV Interview Got Him Pinched By The Feds

Source: @Justinmyview / Radio-One At this point Hip-Hop is half cancel culture and conspiracy culture. One rapper clears up the notion that a platform but him behind bars. As spotted on HipHopDX AR-Ab has done his first interview since getting arrested on federal drug charges. In an over the phone conversation with the Flip Da Script podcast he touched on several points regarding his current situation. Naturally the topic of DJ Vlad came up as over the years several rappers have attempted to put a snitch jacket on the Russian media mogul. About three years ago the former associate of Cassidy conducted a sit down with the journalist. While he touched on a bevy of topics regarding his story it was his admissions of running a drug ring that went viral. In his discussion with QueenzFlip a...