By Tom Hays
Bobby Shmurda, a rapper once on the
rise thanks to a viral music video that popularized the "Shmoney dance,"
was sentenced to seven years in prison Wednesday after claiming he was
railroaded into taking a guilty plea on charges he conspired with a
violent drug gang.
"I want to
withdraw my plea," a defiant Shmurda said during his sentencing in a
Manhattan courtroom. "I was forced by my attorney to take the plea. I
was forced."
New York state court Justice Abraham
Clott denied the request and imposed the seven-year term that was agreed
to as part of a plea deal that spared Shmurda from going to trial on
multiple counts carrying penalties that could have put him behind bars
for decades.
The 22-year-old
Shmurda, whose birth name is Ackquille Pollard, is best known for "Hot
Boy," a gritty hit song with rhymes about gunplay. He and Chad "Rowdy
Rebel" Marshall - another aspiring hip-hop artist who also pleaded
guilty in the same case - gained notoriety with their performance in the
"Shmoney dance" video, which has about 15 million YouTube views.
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Source: NBC News - 4 New York (via The Empire Report)
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