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Content warning: This story contains discussion and descriptions of alleged domestic violence and sexual abuse.Rapper Mystikal has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape, domestic abuse and robbery.On Monday September 19, Mystikal – real name Michael Lawrence Tyler – entered a plea of not guilty (as reported by Alternative Press) at Ascension Parish court, Louisiana, in response to charges of first-degree rape, domestic abuse battery (specifically, strangulation and false imprisonment), drug possession, robbery and criminal damage to property.Tyler was arrested on Sunday July 31 in the Louisiana town of Prairieville, after deputies of the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office interviewed a suspected survivor of alleged sexual assault at a hospital the night prior. Deputies have accused Tyler of the attack, during which it’s alleged he took the survivor’s car keys and sexually assaulted her.

Mystikal has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of raping and choking a woman at his home in Louisiana, as well as possessing several drugs.The 51-year-old performer, whose real name is Michael Tyler, is innocent of all charges, lawyer Joel Pearce said after the hearing in Ascension Parish Court in Gonzales, Louisiana, about 15 miles from Baton Rouge.The charges against the Grammy-nominated rapper include first-degree rape, which carries an automatic life sentence. He was arrested July 30 in connection with the incident, according to authorities.  The latest: Mystikal has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of raping and choking a woman at his home in Louisiana, as well as possessing several drugs Pearce said he has not been able to get copies of the two indictments, but they were read aloud in court.Charges also include simple criminal damage to property, false imprisonment, domestic abuse battery by strangulation, simple robbery, possession of heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine and Xanax, and possession of drug paraphernalia, he said.