Deputy District Attorney John McKinney said during the trial last year that Hussle was 'shot from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.'

Just before firing, he added, Holder told Hussle. 'You're through,' and when the first shot hit him, the Grammy-winning hip hopper yelled, 'You got me.'

The evidence against Holder was overwhelming, from eyewitnesses to surveillance cameras from local businesses that captured his arrival, the shooting and his departure.

His attorney did not even deny he was the shooter but urged jurors to find him guilty of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.

Holder's lawyer, Aaron Jansen, argued that when he was publicly accused of being a 'snitch' by a person as prominent as Hussle it brought on a 'heat of passion'.

While Holder was found guilty of murder, he was not eligible for the death penalty.

Douglas told Superior Court Judge H. Clay Jacke II he was grateful for any sentence against Holder in order to get justice for his dead friend, but he still demanded to know why Holder would shoot Hussle over rumors.

'I don't care what you give this guy. It ain't about the time,' Douglas told the court. 'I just want to know why. The world wants to know why. Why someone would do that?'

He added the stores that surrounded Hussle's Marathon in an LA strip mall have since closed down without the rapper's support, leaving the owners unemployed.

On Wednesday, Jansen also argued that his client suffered from severe mental illness, reading a letter that claimed Holder had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was 19.
Jacke handed down the sentence saying he took into account Holder's mental health at the time of the shooting, as well as the turmoil Hussle's family faced.