Rapper Kay Flock was sentenced Tuesday (local time) to 30 years in prison for a series of shootings in his Bronx neighbourhood, derailing a music career that was just taking off before his 2021 arrest, as reporter by The Associated Press.

The 22-year-old rapper, whose real name is Kevin Perez, was sentenced by US District Judge Lewis J Liman, who criticised Perez for sending the wrong message to his young peers by glorifying violence during a less-than-18-month stretch from 2020 to 2021 that prosecutors said left dozens of people on Bronx streets shot at, injured or killed, the report said.

(This is a developing story, come later for updates)