Bobby Shmurda will have plenty of free time to come up with new rhymes.
The rapper was sentenced to seven years on Friday, after accepting a plea deal in a gang conspiracy case against him, the New York Daily News reports.
Shmurda, real name Ackquille Jean Pollard, accepted the deal just days before he was scheduled to stand trial.
Following his prison sentence, Shmurda will be subject to a five-year probationary period.
The rapper was arrested in December 2014 and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, weapons possession and reckless endangerment. According to prosecutors, Shmurda was the “driving force” behind the GS9 gang, the Washington Post reported. He was accused of firing shots at a crowd in Brooklyn, and of being present during a confrontation with a rival gang outside a courthouse, during which shots were fired.
Per New York Daily News, Shmurda pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess weapons and possession of a weapon in the deal.
Shmurda, who has been incarcerated since his arrest, had faced a possible 25 years in prison if convicted at trial.
