| Christian rapper gets jail time for Myspace rant Posted: 03 Aug 2009 12:26 PM PDT
Florida-based Christian rap artist, Illyte, is headed to the big house.  Christian rapper Illyte gets two years in prison for threatening cops The rapper, whose real name is Antavio Johnson, pleaded no contest to two counts of corruption by threat of public servant on July 24, for which he will receive two years in prison. Johnson’s charges stem from a song, “Kill Me a Cop,” that was posted on his Myspace page earlier this year. The song has since been removed from his page. With lyrics such as “Call me crazy but I think I fell in love with the sound of hearing the dispatcher saying, ‘Officer Down,” as well as a mention of two officers, including a deputy who was murdered in 2006, a sheriff with the Polk County gang squad decided to investigate. His search led him to Johnson, who was already in jail for violating his probation on a 2007 cocaine possession charge. According to Illyte’s brother, Gerald Johnson, Illyte wrote the song when he was still a teenager as a way to protest the ill-treatment he felt that he had received at the hands of police officers. According to Hip Hop Database, Johnson, who also goes by “T.O” released his first Christian mixtape, “The Life & Rhymes Of Antavio Johnson Volume 1″ in 2006. |
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