Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 26: Rapper Silento attends the 2016 BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater on June 26, 2016 in Los Angeles, ...

The "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)" rapper—whose real name is Ricky Lamar Hawk—has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after being convicted of voluntary manslaughter and other charges in the 2021 fatal ...

Silentó is known for the song “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae).” Hawk pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the death of Frederick Rooks III, our sister station at WSB reported. On Jan. 21, 2021, the ...

The man whose viral 2015 single “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” catapulted him to global fame overnight will spend decades in prison over his cousin’s death. In DeKalb County Court on Wednesday, Ricky Lamar ...

Rapper Silentó, born Ricky Lamar Hawk, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 2021 fatal shooting of his cousin, Frederick Rooks III. Hawk, 27, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to voluntary ...