| After Drill Rapper Kay
Flock Sentenced to 25 Years in
Prison Ashanti Washington Mulls
Plea
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
May 6 – Two days after
the mixed jury verdict in US
v. Kevin Perez, the
Bronx-based drill rapper known
as Kay Flock, a book was
published about the trial,
"Courthouse Rap." On Amazon here. On August
4, Perez' lawyer's motion for
acquittal or a new trial was
denied, with the Judge
concluding "Perez even noted
to Brockington after the
shooting that “[his] shit
[was] still hot,†in apparent
reference to the gun that
Perez was holding. Tr.
426:9–427. The jury could have
reasonably inferred from this
testimony that Perez supplied
his own gun to be used in the
shooting." Full order on
Patreon here On December 16,
Inner City Press live tweeted
the sentence - and 25 year
sentence, thread here On January 13 he
filed notice of appeal, pro
se, from Essex in New Jersey. Back on June 25,
the US Attorney's Office wrote
it to Judge Liman that it had
gotten a grand jury indictment
of defense witness Ashanti
Washington after finding her
DNA on the gun - and charging
perjury. Will the new case,
assigned to Judge George B.
Daniels, be consolidated with
Perez' before Judge Liman? Jump cut to May 6, 2026, when Washington and her lawyer were before Judge Daniels. The lawyer said that a plea is being mulled; he also asked for permission for travel to the Northern District of New York. If you tell Probation in advance, Judge Daniel said, and set a set conference for July 9 to 10:30 am.
The book
compares this 2025 trial to
the previous trial involving
Tekashi 6ix9ine as a
cooperating witness, before
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer. Inner
City Press covered both cases,
as it is covering that of Sean
Combs and others. The book
begins:
In outlaw music there is
always the question of
authenticity. Daniel Hernandez
became Tekashi 6ix9ine and
hooked up with the Nine Trey
Gangsta Bloods to shoot a
video. Then he became their
cash cow, and some of them
became his muscle, shoot-out
in a Barclay's Center hallway.
They turned
on Tekashi and he became a
cooperator against them,
returning to SDNY on
violations of supervised
release then back out on the
concert tour.
For drill
rapper Kay Flock it was
different. He really was from
Sev Side, 187th Street. He
wasn't an appendage to his
group: he was central to it.
When with seven he was
indicted, he did not
cooperate. He took it to
trial.
The author knows, or knew, the
neighborhood well, having
lived there for years: first
car on Beaumont Avenue, first
storefront on Courtlandt then
Washington Avenues. Now after
a stint at the UN ending in UN
gangsters ousting, covering
the SDNY courthouse for these
trials. This book starts with
the just-completed Kay Flock
trial, then compares it to
Tekashi 6ix9ine. Should music
be on trial? Should
authenticity? E-book on Amazon here
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After Drill Rapper Kay Flock Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Ashanti Washington Mulls Plea
