The crypto business’s most infamous rapper, Heather Morgan – extra extensively often called Razzlekhan – launched a new music video as U.S. authorities stand able to imprison her for criminally laundering parts of the crypto loot her husband was convicted of pilfering from Bitfinex.
Within the music, ‘Razzlekhan vs. The US,” Morgan’s outlandish and proactively clad musical persona gyrates and scowls into the digicam. Regardless of the legalese of the music’s title, its lyrics do not make an overt assault on the investigation and court docket proceedings that landed her a federal sentence of 18 months in jail.
“This ain’t no free nation; it working on cash; capitalists chummy; previous white males hella grumpy,” raps Morgan, certain in pink ropes. The aggressive picture strikes a pointy distinction with the conservatively dressed defendant that wept in a Washington courtroom as she apologized for her function in concealing and cashing out components of the stolen fortune of virtually 120,000 bitcoin.
Her husband, Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, was sentenced to 5 years for orchestrating the hack and theft. And the couple’s crypto crimes are the topic of a latest Netflix documentary, “Greatest Heist Ever.”
Morgan’s Razzlekhan performances are meant as a tongue-in-cheek commentary, she contends, and within the newest “misfits anthem” launched on Friday, “the strains of intercourse enchantment and cringe memes are blurred.”
“It symbolizes lots of my ideas and precise experiences all through our federal case,” she mentioned in a press release in regards to the work. “Many creatives and misfits have instructed me that Razzlekhan content material has been actually inspiring to them, and it makes them really feel much less alone.”
The federal decide who sentenced her, regardless of her request to be let off with the times she’d already served behind bars, mentioned she would not must report back to jail earlier than the tip of January. Her laptop use will even be restricted and monitored.
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Morgan lamented in court docket that her fame had been “completely and utterly” destroyed due to the general public’s fixation on her rapper character as a facet present of the high-profile legal case.
She instructed the decide at her sentencing listening to that she’d be haunted “for the remainder of my life” however what she’d achieved to assist the theft of what would now be price $11 billion. Hours later, she posted a Razzlekhan video celebrating the tip of her silence.
On this newest look lower than two months later, Razzlekhan appeals to not a crypto govt, however to someone with shut ties to the digital property world: the CEO of Tesla and social-media web site X who’s now a political ally of President-elect Donald Trump.
“Outdated cash, gold dusty; save me Elon Musky!”
