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Mystikal pleads guilty to rape, faces 20 years.

Mystikal - a rapper who is best known for his hits in the late 90s and early 2000s - has pled guilty to a third-degree rape charge and will face 20 years in pri...

Mystikal pleads guilty to rape, faces 20 years.
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Bintano News

March 18, 2026

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Mystikal - a rapper who is best - has pled guilty to a third-degree rape charge and will face 20 years in prison.

In 2022, the 55-year-old rapper - born Michael Lawrence Tyler -  was also accused of beating, choking, and robbing a woman inside his home in Ascension Parish.

Tyler had allegedly confiscated the victim's keys and her phone before preventing her from leaving.

Then when the woman realized some of her money was missing, he allegedly raped her.

Then Tyler allegedly allowed the victim to leave but forced her to transfer money to him via CashApp according to court records.

The rapper was arrested on July 30, 2022. 

Mystikal - a rapper who is best known for his hits in the late 90s and early 2000s - has pled guilty to a third-degree rape charge and will face 20 years in prison.

The rapper was arrested July 30 in connection with the incident 

He was indicted for first-degree rape, simple criminal damage to property, domestic abuse battery by strangulation, simple robbery, and false imprisonment in the assault.  First-degree rape carries an automatic life sentence.

Tyler ended up pleading guilty to a downgraded rape charge as part of a deal that was struck with prosecutors.

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In 2022, the 55-year-old Louisiana rapper - born Michael Lawrence Tyler - was also accused of beating, choking, and robbing a woman inside his home in Ascension Parish (pictured in June 2002)

Tyler had allegedly confiscated the victim's keys and her phone before preventing her from leaving (The Grammy-nominated rapper was pictured in November of 2020 in Alabama )

Then when the woman realized some of her money was missing, he allegedly raped her(The rapper was pictured at a show in College Park, Georgia in September of 2020)

Then Tyler allegedly allowed the victim to leave but forced her to transfer money to him via CashApp according to court records (Tyler is pictured  in August 2022)

Tyler also had rape and kidnapping charges that prosecutors in Louisiana dropped in December 2020. 

Those charges, brought in 2017, had kept Tyler jailed for nearly 18 months before he was released on $3 million bond.

Mystikal told the Associated Press in April 2021 that he used to be 'a nasty lil' rapper' but was now proud of lyrics he could imagine rapping to God.

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