{"id":735529,"date":"2026-06-26T02:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lil-shines-last-days-outside\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T02:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:20:27","slug":"lil-shines-last-days-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lil-shines-last-days-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Shine\u2019s last days outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e5619d7be9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e5619d7be9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lil-shines-last-days-outside\/#18_months_ago_pluggnb_rapper_Lil_Shine_was_federally_indicted_for_felony_pharmaceutical_fraud_The_FADER_caught_up_with_Shine_before_and_after_his_sentencing_hearing_for_an_exclusive_interview\" >18 months ago, pluggnb rapper Lil Shine was federally indicted for felony pharmaceutical fraud. The FADER caught up with Shine before and after his sentencing hearing for an exclusive interview.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"18_months_ago_pluggnb_rapper_Lil_Shine_was_federally_indicted_for_felony_pharmaceutical_fraud_The_FADER_caught_up_with_Shine_before_and_after_his_sentencing_hearing_for_an_exclusive_interview\"><\/span>18 months ago, pluggnb rapper Lil Shine was federally indicted for felony pharmaceutical fraud. The FADER caught up with Shine before and after his sentencing hearing for an exclusive interview.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281883\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6601_r2urvb\/lil-shine.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6601_r2urvb\/lil-shine.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6601_r2urvb\/lil-shine.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6601_r2urvb\/lil-shine.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6601_r2urvb\/lil-shine.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6601_r2urvb\/lil-shine.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6601_r2urvb\/lil-shine.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6601_r2urvb\/lil-shine.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6601_r2urvb\/lil-shine.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6601_r2urvb\/lil-shine.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6601_r2urvb\/lil-shine.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 640px\" alt=\"Lil Shine\u2019s last days outside\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Lil Shine.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      via the artist<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281875\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            It was the week before Christmas 2024.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            19-year-old r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er Lil Shine had woken up to a government raid on his Minneapolis apartment. Later that afternoon, his lawyer called: Shine was being indicted. Along with two co-defendants, he was facing federal charges of conspiracy and fraud to obtain controlled substances, in this case promethezine with codeine. But Shine alone faced an additional 11 counts of wire fraud, three counts of accessing a protected computer in furtherance of fraud, and four counts of aggravated identity theft.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Now 21, Shine is facing mandatory minimums that will send him to federal prison for at least two years, if not longer. The case couldn\u2019t come at a worse time: after years toiling as a cult figure among the SoundCloud set, last January\u2019s <i>Shine Forever<\/i>, released just weeks after his indictment, offered a poppier vision of Shine\u2019s music, cleanly mixed and melodically focused. And though his new mixtape <i>Get Rich Or Die Sippin\u2019<\/i> dropped the same day as Drake\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>le album blitz, Shine has never been more popular, managing to make the Top 10 rap albums on Spotify for the week of May 15.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI&#8217;m always picky, but with this one specifically, I wanted it to be really good because there&#8217;s a high chance that this is the last large body of work that I release before I go to prison,\u201d Shine tells me over the phone on April 29. \u201cI just wanted it to be perfect and push me up to the next level.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281884\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lil Shine - Like What? (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eleDWkeuKo4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281876\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            He\u2019s calling me from his Minneapolis apartment, sitting on the same couch where he records, mixes, and masters nearly all of his music, a melodic strain of underground rap known as pluggnb that takes equal inspiration from MexikoDro and Aaliyah. His sentencing hearing was set for Tuesday, May 19, but despite the circumstances, Shine was remarkably composed, never slipping into bitterness or self-pity over the course of our hour-long 1-on-1 without a manager, or lawyer. He\u2019s also more candid than I anticipated, even telling me that he got engaged last year, though he cuts my line of questioning when I ask how long he\u2019s known his fianc\u00e9e.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cHonestly, I kind of expected it,\u201d Shine says of the December 2024 raid. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t out of the blue.\u201d The feds had initially raided his apartment in August of 2023; a few days later Shine received a target letter in the mail, a notice that he was under federal investigation, though the letter didn\u2019t say what for. By the following winter, \u201cIt had been so long since I got that letter, I kind of forgot about it.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Since it was a nonviolent crime, and Shine\u2019s first felony offense, he was granted pretrial release on a signature bond. While his lawyers worked on the case, the rapper was free to live his life almost the same way he had before \u2013 only now with the looming specter of prison time slowly creeping up on him.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThe feds have a really high conviction rate, and that\u2019s just because 99% of people plead out,\u201d Shine tells me over the phone 18 months later. \u201cThey always throw the book at you im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely, that\u2019s how it works. Usually in the end, you end up pleading out to three to five charges, depending on your case.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281878\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" style=\"border:1px solid #e6e6e6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/embeds\/video\/responsive\/89-36ce16ee-3aa6-4fec-9873-0cd36512f642\/iframe\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281877\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Three months before our first call, on January 20, 2026, Lil Shine entered a guilty plea for one count each of conspiracy to obtain controlled substances by fraud, accessing a protected computer in furtherance of fraud, and aggravated identity theft. While that\u2019s far less than the double-digits charges on the initial indictment, the guilty plea meant a mandatory minimum sentence that would send Shine to prison for years.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cMy expectations are pretty broad. With those charges, the guidelines are kind of freaky,\u201d Shine told me ahead of sentencing. The charge of aggravated identity theft meant two years for sure, but the length of his sentence was ultimately up to the judge\u2019s discretion. \u201cI\u2019m not exactly sure what\u2019s going to happen; they could give me a total of six years for everything, but I don\u2019t know what the chances are. I just have to wait and see.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Shine\u2019s case, in plain English: The United States government was accusing Lil Shine of hacking the Drug Enforcement Administration to fraudulently obtain promethazine with codeine, the primary opioid used in lean\/drank. According to public court documents, Shine and his codefendants Rayjaun Keon Varner and Oscar Becerra-Ruiz used paid online search services to access personal information for licensed doctors in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The trio then used that information to alter contact information for multiple physicians in the DEA\u2019s secure online ordering platform, and subsequently placed wholesale orders for pharmaceutical grade cough syrup using prepaid debit cards and payment accounts associated with the physicians\u2019 names.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Over a nine month period from December 2022 to August 2023, when Shine was first raided, the trio fraudulently obtained at least 300 pints of promethazine with codeine, with a total value of approximately $750,000 ($2,500 per bottle). The trio allegedly then sold the pints across the United States. At the time, Lil Shine was 17 years old.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281886\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7165_ysuvog\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7165_ysuvog\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7165_ysuvog\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7165_ysuvog\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7165_ysuvog\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7165_ysuvog\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7165_ysuvog\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7165_ysuvog\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7165_ysuvog\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7165_ysuvog\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7165_ysuvog\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Lil Shine\u2019s last days outside\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281879\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Lil Shine was born Jasper William Johnson on February 18, 2005, at North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, just northwest of Minneapolis. His father worked a white collar corporate job and his mother was a hairstylist; they divorced when Shine was three. Growing up, Shine recalls his parents playing a lot of rock and 80\u2019s music, specifically Led Zeppelin and Journey. Shine also grew up an avid Michael Jackson fan, saying the pop star was a major melodic influence. He also got into skating and snowboarding at an early age, and fell in love with SoundCloud rap through editing skate clips.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cIt was always a competition of who could find the most niche song to put in their edit,\u201d Shine says. \u201cEveryone around me was using plugg music, and I realized pretty fast that I had an ear for that sound.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Shine started with YouTube production tutorials, but quickly \u201cwanted to start recording.\u201d Looking back on his early music, Shine says he can\u2019t point to anything specific he did to develop his sound, explaining, \u201cBecause I started making music so young, the biggest part of my growth was simply understanding how the industry works, and also learning how to incorporate my real life experiences into my music.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            In the late 2010s, Lil Shine collaborated with various SoundCloud groups, from the Internet-only Kuso Collective and Pretty Boy Clique to the more well-known Reptilian Club Boyz. He says he wasn\u2019t personally close with any of those crews, they were more like social media friends, but the heightened visibility and his burgeoning musical skills helped Shine to outgrow his past image, if only a little.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281887\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lil Shine - Got Down (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cjSQuN_mQ3I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281880\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Though Shine\u2019s music isn\u2019t overtly deep or diaristic, his songs glow with feeling. Boilerplate trap tropes aside, his pure-toned vocals turn incandescent when Shine sings about romance. Even when those starry-eyed lyrics cohabit with aurafarming flextalk, Shine\u2019s euphoric emotions are shot through with anxiety and longing. Still, <i>Get Rich Or Die Sippin\u2019<\/i> can be frustratingly thoughtless at times, particularly with Shine\u2019s semi-frequent pejorative use of \u201cgay\u201d and \u201cr*tarded.\u201d That might be par for the course in hip-hop, but it forces listeners to focus on Shine\u2019s most boneheaded lyrics instead of his soaring falsetto, unnecessarily tainting some of his strongest melodic work to date.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            But the mixtape also showcases legitimate vulnerability, lovestruck ballads and earnest pleas for affection. When I ask how Shine balances that sweet talk with more typical raps about Dracos and Wockhardt, he chalks it up to getting older and having more experiences with women, as well as his appreciation for the \u201croller coaster\u201d emotions of R&amp;B.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            One topic Shine hasn\u2019t touched on wax is his federal indictment. The second time we talk on May 22, just days after his sentencing hearing, he explains that the gravity of the situation simply hadn\u2019t settled in enough for it to show up in his music.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI&#8217;ve been out on pretrial release for so long that it kind of started to feel like I&#8217;m never gonna go to jail,\u201d Shine says ruefully. \u201cThat reality is just now smacking me in the face this past week.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281888\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6410_xdc6bf\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6410_xdc6bf\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6410_xdc6bf\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6410_xdc6bf\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6410_xdc6bf\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6410_xdc6bf\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6410_xdc6bf\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6410_xdc6bf\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6410_xdc6bf\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6410_xdc6bf\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF6410_xdc6bf\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Lil Shine\u2019s last days outside\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281881\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Following Shine\u2019s guilty plea, both his lawyers and U.S. attorneys entered sentencing recommendations. In a letter to the court, Shine\u2019s lawyers detailed Shine\u2019s history of mental health issues and his struggles with autism, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. The 20-page memo traces Shine\u2019s childhood through his early rap career, essentially arguing that Shine turned to pharmaceutical fraud as a way to be accepted by more established rappers who would otherwise dismiss him for his age, race, or geeky appearance. The document also alleges that Shine was \u201ca product of a broken home,\u201d and abused by older children when he was young.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            When I ask Shine if the contents of that document are accurate, he demurs. \u201cI would say to a certain extent, but I would also say that things were overexaggerated and stretched for the purpose of court use. I think I can freely say that now that sentencing is over, but the struggles with mental health are definitely a reality for me. That would be the one thing on there that I would say is 100% spot on, but I can&#8217;t really speak on any of the other things.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            The morning of Tuesday, May 19, Lil Shine woke up and got ready. He put on his suit, purchased after the indictment, and met up with his lawyer at the courthouse.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThey had me stand up and apologize and make my final remarks before sentencing. My lawyer and the prosecutor exchanged their thoughts on the sentencing to the judge,\u201d Shine recalls. The now-21-year-old faced a minimum of 24 and a maximum of 72 months in prison. After his hearing, he found out that the government had recommended a cap of 42 months, or 3.5 years \u2013 \u201cI didn\u2019t even know that until my fans leaked a court document.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            So the ultimate verdict of 36 months, or three years, offered some modicum of comfort. \u201cI\u2019m happy with the outcome compared to what I could have gotten time-wise,\u201d says Shine. He says he\u2019s glad his co-defendants received lighter sentences, adding that the disparity in terms has more to do with the court\u2019s judgment than anything else.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281889\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lil Shine - Elastic (official music video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dELIl264fi0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281882\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Lil Shine is set to turn himself in on July 28, with a small tour in the works for the summer, with shows in New York City and Los Angeles already getting upgraded to larger venues. Shine doesn\u2019t really care about performing, \u201cbut you know I care about the fans, so it needs to happen.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            In the weeks between our conversations, and those after, I watch Shine post beautiful lake pictures and snippets of new music on Instagram stories, perhaps savoring his last moments of pleasant normalcy. On X, I see people cherrypick excerpts from his court docs to make fun of Shine\u2019s lawyers, and thinly-veiled \u201cjokes\u201d about his impending suffering behind bars, commentary that feels not just callous, but unnecessarily cruel.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Whatever you make of Shine as an artist or a now-convicted felon, he will spend the next 1\/8th of his life behind bars, away from his fianc\u00e9e, his mother, and his two younger sisters. He entered a life of non-violent crime before he could vote, and pled guilty to federal charges before he could legally buy a beer. He\u2019s a young adult responsible for his actions \u2013 but he\u2019s also young. There\u2019s a distinction between believing someone deserves what\u2019s coming to them and reveling in it.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            When we speak the week after his sentencing, I ask how he\u2019s planning to spend his final months as a free man. His answer strikes me as balanced but ambitious, conscious of the very real challenges ahead but focused on those things still in his control.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI\u2019m obviously going to be spending as much time with my family and friends as possible, but I\u2019m also very focused on my career,\u201d says Lil Shine. \u201cI want to make sure that I come out bigger than I am now.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281890\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7195_p6obew\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7195_p6obew\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7195_p6obew\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7195_p6obew\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7195_p6obew\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7195_p6obew\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7195_p6obew\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7195_p6obew\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7195_p6obew\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7195_p6obew\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSCF7195_p6obew\/lil-shine-interview-last-days-outside.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Lil Shine\u2019s last days outside\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Vivian Medithi<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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