2 Men Convicted Of Killing Rapper A$AP Press Sentenced To Prison

NEW YORK CITY- Two men were sentenced to prison on Friday in a Supreme Court for the fatal shooting of rapper A$AP Press.

Darius Hastings, 37, and Chester Taylor, 37, were previously convicted of second-degree murder, first degree assault, and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

A judge sentenced both men to serve a 20-year-sentence in state prison in the murder of the 26-year-old rapper, according to AMNY.

A$AP Press, whose birth name was Pressie Taylor Jr., was a member of the A$AP Mob, a collective that includes A$AP Rocky and A$AP Ferg.

Taylor Jr. contacted Taylor through a mutual friend in July 2016 to rent a luxury car for a music video he was filming. Taylor had been running an illegal car rental business on Instagram and offered to give Taylor Jr. two cars for $1,000, the outlet reports.

Taylor Jr. paid most of the rental fees up front on Aug. 5 but Taylor failed to provide the cars for the video.

The rapper continued to request his money be returned, but Taylor refused.

Taylor, upset that the rapper was asking for his money back, threatened him in text messages and called Hastings on Aug. 28. Both men then drove over to Taylor Jr.’s block in Harlem, AMNY reports.

Hastings shot Taylor Jr. in the back of his head. The rapper survived the shooting but died almost two years after suffering a seizure while at a music festival.

The medical examiner ruled that Taylor’s death was a result of his 2016 head injury, the D.A.’s said.

The judge called A$AP Press a “promising star.”