Troy Ave is celebrating podcast host Taxtone‘s prison sentence for murdering the rapper’s friend in 2016.
On Tuesday (June 20), Daryl “Taxstone” Campbell was handed 35 years in prison for killing Ronald “Banga” McPhatter at a T.I. concert in New York. On Wednesday (June 21), the rapper took to social media to rejoice at the trial’s outcome.
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Troy Ave is rubbing it in by selling t-shirts with the Tax Season podcaster’s face superimposed over an image of Kevin Durant during his time with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Instead of the team’s name, however, the print says “Prison City” over the jersey number, which is the same as the years Campbell will be serving.
Ave also used the post to ask fans to help him name his upcoming album that is due this weekend. Check out the full post below:
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On Tuesday (June 20), immediately after finding out his fate, Taxstone took to Twitter to issue a defiant message that explains his mindset toward the hefty sentence.
“Just got 35 years for being victimized and reversing the situation,” he said. “The beauty in it all is, I’m not doing 35. Be safe though.”
Following a confrontation between the Brooklyn rapper and Taxstone that led to the death of McPhatter, who was Ave’s bodyguard, both men were arrested. Ave was facing charges of attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon, but he has continued to assert his innocence.
After testifying against Campbell, Ave received a reduced sentence. Upon Taxstone’s conviction, the rapper even dropped a diss track about him titled “Dear Hater, I Won (Taxstone Found Guilty).”
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Soon after, he joined Nick Cannon’sThe Daily Cannon on Monday (May 1), where he gave fans essentially a play-by-play of what really went down at NYC’s Irving Plaza on that fateful day.
“Now we fighting for the gun and shit, he start squeezing those shots. I’m biting the n-gga on his neck, he’s biting my forearm. I managed to get more control of the gun than him, I just start pistol-whipping him.
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“I turn around to make sure everyone I came in with is good… We leave out the room, and this is the part they showed on the media. This is the part that made it look like Troy Ave came into a club recklessly and started shooting.”
He continued: “What people don’t realize is I was coming out of a VIP room where I was attacked and I was shot. When I’m shooting, is when I see him.”
