From Nola.com, where you can read the full story:

Mystikal, a Grammy-nominated rapper raised in New Orleans who rose to fame in the early 2000s, has been indicted on a charge of first-degree rape over an alleged July 30 attack at his home in Prairieville and now faces a mandatory life sentence if convicted at trial.

The Ascension Parish grand jury handed up the rape charge and nine other criminal counts Tuesday in Gonzales against Mystikal, whose given name is Michael Lawrence Tyler.

Ascension sheriff’s deputies have accused Tyler of imprisoning, strangling, raping and robbing a woman during a financial dispute at his home in the northern Ascension community.

Tyler has also been charged with single counts of simple criminal damage to property, false imprisonment, domestic abuse battery by strangulation, simple robbery, possession of heroin, illegal possession of Xanax, possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, two indictments against him say.

Tyler, 51, remained Wednesday in Ascension Parish Prison without bail. His former attorney has disputed the allegations.

From The Advocate, where you can read even more:

New Orleans-raised rapper Mystikal berated, beat and choked a woman at his Ascension Parish home during a heated argument over finances during the weekend before the episode devolved into her rape amid his separate complaint that she had stolen $100 from him, sheriff’s deputies said Monday.

The victim accused Mystikal, whose given name is Michael Lawrence Tyler, of engaging in erratic and violent behavior minutes after he had apologized for beating her and pulling out her hair braids — then he had them pray together.

“He had her kneel with him beside his bed as they prayed for a few minutes,” a sheriff’s warrant says.

Tyler, 51, of Prairieville, was arrested and booked Sunday afternoon on first-degree rape, simple robbery, felony domestic abuse battery by strangulation and other counts in the suburban Baton Rouge parish, sheriff’s deputies said.

Tyler has faced sexual assault charges in the past and is a registered sex offender after a 2003 conviction, but recently said he was trying to turn his life around and put his more volatile past behind him.

After serving two months for violating his probation, Mystikal was released from the East Baton Rouge Parish Jail this morning.