Yak Gotti is expected to be released from jail over four months after his acquittal in the YSL trial. The rapper, whose real name is Deamonte Kendrick, accepted a plea deal on Wednesday for additional ...

The rapper, best known for the 2017 song "The Race," was previously sentenced to 55 years in prison for a separate fatal shooting Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024.

He had at the time served more than 900 days in jail as he was awaiting trial. Prosecutors had called the young up-and-coming rapper "King Slime," the fearsome leader of a pack that terrorized the ...