YoungBoy Never Broke Again (a.k.a. NBA YoungBoy) has been sentenced to 23 months in federal prison, according to new documents filed in federal court on Tuesday (Dec. 10), followed by 60 months’ probation following his release.
The sentence comes nearly four months after it was reported that the 25-year-old rapper, born Kentrell Gaulden, would plead guilty to a single count of possession of firearms by a convicted felon.
YoungBoy was indicted by federal prosecutors in 2021 after he was allegedly found with two guns during a September 2020 incident that transpired during a music video shoot in Baton Rouge, La. He was charged with violating a federal law that bans convicted felons from possessing guns, as he had previously been convicted of aggravated assault with a firearm in 2017.
While awaiting trial, YoungBoy was confined to his Salt Lake City home for more than two years, a “long period of social isolation” that his attorneys later pleaded was harming his mental health. They asked the judge in the case to loosen restrictions, including by allowing him to travel to a studio to record new music, but the judge largely denied that request in November.
That same month, YoungBoy also pleaded guilty to several counts in a separate case out of Utah in which he was charged with operating a prescription drug ring out of his home. As part of a plea deal in that case, the rapper’s four felony charges were reduced to Class A Misdemeanors and he was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine, as reported by KTVX-TV (via Associated Press).
