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Lik Moss says that Dark Lo can’t come back to OBH
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Guvnor
Da Speculative Spectacle®
Lo said the haters kept me interested, when he meant to say they kept things interesting.
Said they gave him the genetic kind of medicine, when he meant generic.
Lo clearly ain't a genius but he a good rapper.
They need to get off the net with that shyt.
Ineedmoney504
SOHH ICEY...WE EATIN
Dark lo seem like he was a follower tho. The shyt with lik influencing him to lowkey diss meek off the rumor that probably wasn’t true leading to ab having to burn a bridge that coulda helped him.
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
I mean he pretty much says it’s a go if AB says... he’s said it allllll throughout his raps.... never hid that
He's a soldier not a boss though, so he was following directions. Everyone isn't meant to be a leader.
This is why Lik Moss questioning his loyalty doesn't make sense. Dark Lo obviously would go all out for Ab, he even rode when Lik said Meek was dissing Ab.
Lik is a manipulator but I don't understand his endgame. He just seems like a bitter dude. I'm sure there is more to it, but that's not for me to know. Lik wants the public perception of Lo to be a certain way even if that's not how Ab feels. That should tell you something.
You can look at that nikka and automatically tell he a real hater
Just look at him look at his face
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
Problem is the boss don't seem like he should be the boss. Dude basically admitting to being the leader of a criminal organization on interviews from jail.
desjardins
Veteran
now they claiming Dark Lo plead guilty to witness intimidation and going serve 9 yrs 
Rapper Dark Lo pleads guilty to threatening witness who helped put N. Philly rap star AR-Ab in prison
all this rat stuff is so goofy cause it's pick and choose. Lik Moss was chilling in the house of that known rat who had the standoff with police like 2 yrs ago. then he skated right by that question on queensflip.
Rapper Dark Lo pleads guilty to threatening witness who helped put N. Philly rap star AR-Ab in prison
all this rat stuff is so goofy cause it's pick and choose. Lik Moss was chilling in the house of that known rat who had the standoff with police like 2 yrs ago. then he skated right by that question on queensflip.
Ten days after federal authorities charged nine rising rap stars and associates from the North Philadelphia record label Original Block Hustlaz in a sprawling 2018 drug conspiracy case, Charles “Dark Lo” Salley — one of the group’s few standouts to avoid indictment — released a new track dismissing the charges.
Titled “Allegations,” its hard-bitten, street-honed lyrics blamed the case on “a rat” who must have informed on the group and its founder, Abdul Ibrahim West, better known by his rap name, AR-Ab. Salley warned whoever the informant was that they would be hunted down and shot.
On Monday, Salley, 39, pleaded guilty to one count of witness intimidation stemming from threats he subsequently made once the informant’s identity was revealed.
His admission of guilt is the latest development in a legal saga that has decimated his once up-and-coming North Philadelphia rap group while enthralling its legion of online fans with every soap operatic twist and turn.
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West, the cofounder of the Original Block Hustlaz (OBH) label and by far its most well-known rapper, is awaiting a sentencing hearing that could send him to prison for decades after he was convicted in 2019 for turning the label into a large-scale North Philly drug operation that has been linked to at least two killings.
» READ MORE: Philly rap star AR-Ab is convicted of running drug ring implicated in murders, faces at least 15 years in prison
Salley, a fixture in the courtroom gallery during West’s trial and a popular rapper in his own right, was arrested during the proceedings and now faces up to nine years in prison under terms of the deal he struck with prosecutors.
The near certainty both men now face prolonged periods of incarceration has thrown their future music careers into doubt, but it hasn’t appeared to squash their followings.
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The cases against them have inspired new rap tracks and music videos. Court filings have become the subject of social media beefs and inspired hashtags calling for their release. And each new development seems to spawn a plethora of YouTube livestream videos from their dedicated fan base — including one West called in to late last year from prison to share that he’d been stabbed by another inmate.
Federal authorities have used it all, in real time, in building their cases against the men. They put West’s music under a microscope at his 2019 trial, saying his lyrics and social media persona were more than just hypermasculine boasting of street-honed toughness: They were confessions to real crimes.
In Salley’s case, prosecutors cited the lyrics in his “Allegations” track, released after West’s arrest, as the first in a series of threats he made against a star government witness.
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“His lyrics promote gun violence and his music videos depict images of drug dealing and weapons possession,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Justin Ashenfelter wrote in a 2019 court filing. “Plainly, he is a danger to the community and he enjoys that image, using it as a platform to sell his music.”
But the specific charge to which Salley pleaded guilty Monday grew out of two letters he wrote to the man — Dontez “Taz” Stewart — an OBH groupie Salley had brought into West’s inner circle after meeting him in a previous stint in state prison in 2009.
Stewart had been charged alongside the other members of OBH in the federal case in 2018 but ultimately pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against the others. At the time, he was facing a murder charge in state court for killing one of West’s drug-world rivals — a crime federal prosecutors maintained that West had boasted about in a 2017 music video.
But days before Stewart was set to testify, he received a letter addressed from “Ron Harvey,” an alias Salley has used in his music career and a reference to one of the founding members of the Philadelphia Black Mafia.
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The missive opened with the greeting “Wassup Stewart Little” — a phrase prosecutors interpreted as a tortured allusion to the talking mouse protagonist of the 1945 children’s classic Stuart Little and slang used to refer to government cooperators as “rats.” It also included warnings that he might be “stabbed up” in prison and that the mother of his children might be raped if Stewart went through with his testimony.
When agents confronted Salley about the letter, he admitted to writing it but insisted he did not mean it in a threatening way. He explained he was dismayed to learn that Stewart, whom he considered his protégé, had betrayed him, West, and the other OBH members and simply wanted to warn him of the consequences of that decision.
“I don’t see how that’s threats,” Salley told agents, according to a transcript of his 2019 interview. “If I didn’t know him, that’s threats. … But he was under me, so I felt as though I could say that to him.”
Salley’s attorney, Jonathan McDonald, did not immediately return calls for comment Tuesday to discuss what motivated his client’s change of heart and decision to plead guilty.
In the meantime, Salley has been busy writing and producing a steady stream of new music to last his fans through his incarceration. While out on bail, he has written and produced four new albums, his lawyer said in recent court filings.
U.S. District Judge Mark A. Kearney gave him permission Monday to leave house arrest to shoot music videos to promote them.
now they claiming Dark Lo plead guilty to witness intimidation and going serve 9 yrs
Rapper Dark Lo pleads guilty to threatening witness who helped put N. Philly rap star AR-Ab in prison
all this rat stuff is so goofy cause it's pick and choose. Lik Moss was chilling in the house of that known rat who had the standoff with police like 2 yrs ago. then he skated right by that question on queensflip.
lemme find out dark lo took a guilty plea just so he doesn't look like a rat
Loud Still Coolin
Suppose be a IT cert like you coli nikkaz
You don’t even gotta be a rat. But once a hater throws that title on you it forever lurks in the googles. And then your a rat by default. We need a conclusion on this. I think ima have to delete all my dark lo music tho wow .... his create a player profile is fukked.
lik moss seems like a dusty bitter fool who is playin hater games and activated by ulterior motives but he got me ready to read the paperwork. Not like I had any lik moss music either tho. But gotta call a spade a spade. Writing the letter to begin with was sucka shyt either way and suicidal.
character assassination or not whole situation is a lose or draw for dark lo damn
We need a conclusion on this. I think ima have to delete all my dark lo music tho wow .... his create a player profile is fukked. lik moss seems like a dusty bitter fool who is playin hater games and activated by ulterior motives but he got me ready to read the paperwork. Not like I had any lik moss music either tho. But gotta call a spade a spade. Writing the letter to begin with was sucka shyt either way and suicidal.
character assassination or not whole situation is a lose or draw for dark lo damn