{"id":53988,"date":"2025-12-16T23:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/kay-flock-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:48:29","slug":"kay-flock-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/kay-flock-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kay Flock Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tBronx rapper Kay Flock, born Kevin Perez,\u00a0was sentenced on Tuesday to 30 years in prison. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn February 2023, Perez was charged with the murder of Hwascar Hernandez<\/a>, who was fatally shot on Dec. 16, 2021, in Upper Manhattan.\u00a0While Perez was acquitted of a first-degree murder charge in March, a jury found him guilty of racketeering conspiracy, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon in aid of racketeering, and a firearm discharge offense.<\/p>\n

\n\tFlock was an emerging drill rapper whose breakout hit \u201cShake It,\u201d featuring Cardi B, was released in April 2022, four months after Perez was charged in the killing of Hernandez.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cKevin Perez used violence and fame to fuel fear and intimidation across the Bronx,\u201d said United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, in a statement. \u201cPerez and his gang members carried out a string of shootings that struck both rival gang members and innocent bystanders. Perez also used his platform as a prominent rapper to celebrate his violence: threatening his rivals, bragging about his shootings, and taunting his victims. His brazen actions unleashed a series of back-and-forth retaliatory shootings that killed and injured far too many people in the Bronx.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tProsecutors had alleged that Perez was the leader of \u201cSev Side,\u201d or \u201cDOA,\u201d a gang based in the Bronx, and that the gang committed violence against gang rivals to protect its territory and supported itself through bank and wire fraud, which in turn funded the rapper\u2019s music career.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe rapper was also held responsible for attempted murders on June 26, 2020, Aug. 10, 2020, and Nov. 10, 2021. According to a press release<\/a> from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office, the rapper released songs that \u201cglorified his violence, threatened more of it, and taunted rival gang members who had been murdered.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn imposing Perez\u2019s sentence, U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman said that the rapper \u201ctaunted, celebrated, and created a culture of violence\u201d and that the harm he caused \u201cwas immense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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