AR-Ab Sentenced to 45 Years for Drug Trafficking
[ad_1] AR-Ab will be spending the next two decades behind bars. The 38-year-old rapper, whose real name is Abdul West, was sentenced to 45 years in prison on Thursday (April 15) for turning his record label, Original Block Hustlaz, into a large-scale drug trafficking network that has been implicated in at least one murder. Prosecutors alleged that West ordered the 2017 killing of a rival, but they did not charge him with that crime, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson said the punishment was for West’s lifetime of “antisocial behavior.” “You could have been a hero instead of a criminal,” said Baylson. “But you became a drug dealer. You made that...