

Tennessee rapper sentenced to 5 years in prison on federal weapons charge
Finese2Tymes sought to withdraw his guilty plea in October, but withdrew the request two weeks later.


Rapper's aide gets no more jail time; Forrest City case called aberration | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
A former bodyguard for Ricky Hampton, also known as the rapper Finese2Tymes, was sentenced Wednesday to "time served" -- about 18 months -- for providing a gun that the rapper carried outside a Forrest City nightclub a week before a shootout early July 1, 2017, inside Little Rock's Power Ultra...

The incident one week earlier outside Club Envy in Forrest City also included gunfire. A woman was grazed in the neck by a bullet and her car's rear windshield was shattered as she tried to drive out of a traffic jam after Hampton's performance. She says Hampton fired the gun while standing up in a car behind her, urging her to get out of his way, but Hampton has denied it.
He is facing a Jan. 22 jury trial in St. Francis County Circuit Court on battery and aggravated assault charges. He pleaded guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm after bystanders captured him on cellphone videos holding a machine-gun-style pistol that night.