Louisiana-based rapper NBA YoungBoy, whose actual title is Kentrell DeSean Gaulden and likewise goes by YoungBoy By no means Broke Once more, has been sentenced to 27 months in federal jail. The 25 year-old was sentenced for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon with expenses deriving from his 2020 arrest.
In 2020, Gaulden was capturing a music video in Baton Rouge when he and 15 others had been detained for knowingly possessing firearms. Greater than a dozen weapons had been seized from the video set. In courtroom paperwork issued Dec. 10 and obtained by Selection, Gaulden has agreed to an imprisonment of 23 months adopted by 60 months of probation.
Gaulden has been serving time in Utah since Might for six expenses of possession of a harmful weapon by a restricted particular person and for a sample of illegal exercise, probably lowering his remaining sentence to roughly 12 months.
Gaulden’s lesser expenses included procuring or making an attempt to acquire drug/prescription, id fraud, forgery and possession of different managed substances. He had been dwelling in Utah below home arrest for his alleged involvement in a 2019 Miami capturing. His relocation to Utah got here as a part of a plea deal by which his legal professionals argued that “transferring to Utah would maintain YoungBoy out of bother,” per a report from AP Information.
Earlier than this onslaught of authorized troubles, and at occasions concurrently, Gaulden was a preferred artist on the Billboard charts with 5 out of eight of his 2022 full-length releases coming into the highest 10 of the Billboard 200. “The Final Slimeto,” which peaked at No. 2 on the albums chart, was the rapper’s last obligation to Atlantic Data — his label of 5 years (he was signed to Motown in 2022). He additionally claimed memorable options on songs by Migos, Juice Wrld and Tyler, the Creator.
