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Philly rap star AR-Ab is convicted of running drug ring implicated in murders, faces at least 15 years in prison

"In West’s case, prosecutors argued, his rap lyrics and social media persona were more than just marketing: They amounted to a confession to crimes.

Jurors were shown several of West’s videos as FBI agents pinpointed direct links to crimes he or members of his crew had committed.

Prosecutors interpreted his lyrics in one of them to be an admission that he ordered the murder of Robert Johnson, a drug world rival who died in 2017 after being shot multiple times on the 4000 block of Benner Street in Wissinoming. A member of West’s entourage is serving prison time for the slaying.

“I’ll have da whole city scared,” the song says. “Stand near homie / I call Tez [a nickname for the shooter] and tell him / Bring dat n—’s head to me.”

Investigators discovered the lyrics for that track, written four days after the slaying, in a note in West’s phone while searching one of his stash houses in Penn’s Landing in 2018.


He maintained that it was a coincidence. Prosecutors balked.

“Either he’s the most unlucky musician that ever existed,” a*sistant U.S. Attorney Everett R. Witherell told jurors during his closing arguments last week, “or he ordered that hit.”

FBI agents targeted another OBH stash house in Penn’s Landing last year, seizing more than 10 kg of cocaine and methamphetamine. West released a music video in the weeks that followed, bemoaning in lyrics that the feds “took 10 of ‘em,” a reference to his drugs.

“Quarter million loss, got a broke heart,” he rapped. “And they snatched my dog, that’s the worst part. / One rat destroy everything you work for. / I pray to god that he don’t tell them who he work for.”

Throughout the trial, West and his codefendants maintained that OBH was not just a front for their drug-trafficking efforts but a legitimate record label that had drawn interest from fans and music industry insiders alike.

“OBH is a legit entity,” said Luis A. Ortiz, a lawyer for West’s codefendant Jameel Hickson. “This is a monetized operation that has 1.7 million hits on just one of its videos.”

But dozens of witnesses, including several members of the OBH drug ring who pleaded guilty and testified against their former colleagues, described a substantial trafficking network — one that bought cocaine, heroin, and meth from a supplier in California, sold the drugs on the streets of the North Philadelphia, and stored them in high-end Center City apartments they turned into stash houses, many rented under fake names.

Tuesday’s convictions left the future of OBH and its artists in doubt. AR-Ab, by far the most popular rapper at the label he cofounded, now faces decades behind bars.

Its second-most renowned artist, Charles “Dark Lo” Salley, who was not indicted along with the others, appears to have been arrested during the trial for allegedly intimidating witnesses.

Although public court dockets do not indicate whether charges have been filed against him, he is listed as being held in federal custody. His Instagram was updated earlier this month with a statement revealing that he’d been arrested in connection with his contact with witnesses in West’s case.

West’s codefendants at trial all had links to OBH. They include: Jamaal “Khaz” Blanding, Jameel “Meliano” Hickson, and Hans “No Brakes Bras” Gadsen. Others pleaded guilty before trial."

FNLN5150 said Preciate postin the article, famo... @ my n*gga & I click his vids just to support a fellow bx members grind, but I don’t watch the vid... Just give him a play... Need to tweak a few things in his vids to hold my attention...

I prefer reading articles rather than watching videos on sh*t like this, but thats just me

spooky

Ar ab was too real for the rap game

I’ve cried listening to some of abs songs and dark lo, so real I get chills.
I know he the bad guy but I ain’t want ab to be buried alive.

Aries said Tuesday’s verdict came after a two-week trial that put West’s music under a microscope and raised questions about just how much a genre defined by violent, hypermasculine boasting of street-honed toughness can be taken at its word.

Preciate postin the article, famo...

@ my n*gga & I click his vids just to support a fellow bx members grind, but I don’t watch the vid...

Just give him a play...

Need to tweak a few things in his vids to hold my attention...

Im a have 2 bump Ab for the next few wks


Free the real

But how they had no evidence what so ever....its almost like he somehow snitched on himself........

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Fame is unbelievable man, look at what these nigas keep doing to themselves just to be noticed. you are a criminal a**hole, keep a low profile, how you think its okay to do rap videos an sh*t, and you really out here pushin weight and k*llin nigaz?

This n*gga is a idiot. No way around it. Rapping about your hitta doing a hit by name 4 days after he did a real life hit?

Damn lo got hemmed up for intimidating witnesses. Sucks that he could’ve got to every witness and shot wouldn’t have mattered. sh*t was over when obh n*ggas took pleas and testified against them. You can’t do sh*t about that.

this dude is a noodle. straight clown. got what he deserved. maybe even less than he deserved considering they didnt put bodies on him. ive only ever watched maybe two of his interviews but its clear to me it was more important to him to put his business on the streets than to actually stay OUT of jail. dude is a moron.

LateModelSedan said this dude is a noodle. straight clown. got what he deserved. maybe even less than he deserved considering they didnt put bodies on him. ive only ever watched maybe two of his interviews but its clear to me it was more important to him to put his business on the streets than to actually stay OUT of jail. dude is a moron.

Well damn

They subconsciously want to go to jail....no way you’re selling drugs and k*lling ppl and actually telling the world...that’s criminally insane

mikejuheard said Ar ab was too real for the rap game

Sincere730 said Im a have 2 bump Ab for the next few wks Free the real

Y'all confusing real wit gangsta....he was a gangsta, but k*llin n*ggas/moving work don't mean u real

This n*gga was a dumbass, that's what he was

Razor Ramon said Y'all confusing real wit gangsta....he was a gangsta, but k*llin n*ggas/moving work don't mean u real This n*gga was a dumbass, that's what he was

Agreed

Extroverts make the worse gangsters but they always seem to be drawn to that world. Idiots doing interviews, making rap songs, posing in pictures but are always shocked when they get the attention they’re looking for.

Ab talked Alot but This whole case is Bullsh*t

Any day in jail is too much but 15 for that case he better take it you still got light at the end of the tunnel.

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I'll probably get life for what's up in my draw
I know for sure
I'm a die by the sword

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He already knew where he was headed
They all did

Why n*ggas just won’t stop after the first big flip

Get in get out like a robbery

But you rather stay because you want the clout until you end up in the clouds

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Cartel Weekly said He already knew where he was headed They all did Why n*ggas just won’t stop after the first big flip Get in get out like a robbery But you rather stay because you want the clout until you end up in the clouds

If you made 30,40k in less than a hour would you “stop”?

Guwopaveli said If you made 30,40k in less than a hour would you “stop”?

Lol that’s not no money as quick as you can make that little sh*t you can blow it.

You rather be Ab I rather be his plug

You hear n*ggas snitch on each other but rarely do they snitch on the plug??? Wonder why