Pras has insisted that he’s not an FBI informant — or guilty of any other crime — despite being found guilty of conspiracy less than 48 hours ago.
AllHipHop reports that they spoke to a representative of the ex-Fugee on Thursday (April 27), and the representatives insist that the Internet and the long arm of the law both got it wrong.
“Pras was never an FBI informant. It’s not accurate and, quite frankly, it’s dangerous,” his publicist, Erica Dumas, said to the outlet. “If he was an informant, he would not be on trial. The government does not prosecute and threaten its informants with more than two decades of jail time.”
Though artists like 50 Cent have claimed that Pras was a snitch, there has been one artist that has steadfastly stood by the embattled rapper: Chuck D of Public Enemy.
Taking to Twitter on Thursday (April 27), the Public Enemy MC blasted what he called a “prop-agenda machine” that was biased against the rapper seemingly from the start.
“Pras was a valedictorian in HighSchool or in the final runnings,” he wrote. “They NEVER mention THAT. Instead USA propAgenda machine ALWAYS promotes this backwoods Jed ass Clampett tale of Hood gangstaS, which NEVER been a threat ANYWHERE other than Blackfolk. Wrong is wrong but this SMELLS.”
Chuck D also shared a photo of the embattled rapper on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek, with the tagline “The U.S. vs. The Fugee: How Pras Michel got mixed up in a global financial scandal that could cost him his freedom.”
Later on, the “Fight the Power” rapper followed up his tweet with a further explanation that “the narrative is calling him everything in the book and never mentioning it. That’s it. But the deeper you go into any of this Russell you discover a fraternity ALL pssing in the same urinal holding each others johnson.”
With that, Chuck D was seemingly implying that Pras was the victim of a larger machination designed to make him a scapegoat, rather than holding the true political cabal responsible.
On Wednesday (April 26), Pras was found guilty on 10 counts, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S., witness tampering, and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
A sentencing date has not yet been set.
Pras is a scapegoat.
And you’re a clown 🤡
From ghetto superstar to supertraitor PoS. Of course chuck d defends him, he hates America with every bone in his hasbeen loser body. Throw that hypocrite traitor in jail with pras, im sure they have a lot of racist and treacherous crap to talk about. Whatever at least, pras’ life is OVER. Maybe in 20 years he’ll be able to wheel himself out of jail and sniff the ocean one last time. The idiot had it all and fluffed it away like an idiot……zero fuks for a clown like that.
Wow. Chuck D a racist? Please elaborate. You obviously know some shut no one else, including Chuck, knows.
Come on….. Are u stupid? Dude’ s whole career is based on hate against the white system. He wrote an open letter to the astro festival that “old white men” were to blame. Imagine a white man wroting that letter about black folks, he’d be cancelled in 3 seconds flat. You all racist hypocrites yourself, pretending its only racism when a black man gets racisl comments…. Hypocrites the lot of ya
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@Wow. you only know of Chuck D because of his race baiting, which he’s been doing for decades. And there’s still simps like you out there who are too dumb to see it
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FBI caught Pras for working scams with foreign scumbag. FBI tells Pras get on this page to keep his dirty money and his freedom. Pras probably hate america so much he gave the foreign scumbag a heads up. Deal with FBI over and he gets his 20 years. Great news nobody liked this fool
You can’t be an informant and be the only one hit with charges lol. It’s funny because only Hip Hop media used the informant/ snitch angle. Such low brow journalism. and of course the streets ran with it. . Dude is obviously a cloutchaser who became a scapegoat and made to hold the bag like a dummy.