Even though Pras was found guilty in his federal fraud case ... he's holding out hope his boy Donald Trump will come through with a pardon!!!
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00:00President Trump has certainly shown a proclivity for pardons, commutations, as all the January 6th folk will tell you.
00:08There's someone else who's desperately trying to impress the president and get a pardon, and that is Praz from the Fugees.
00:16Now, you may not even remember this because it is...
00:19It's been a long time.
00:20We're coming up on two years...
00:21I know, that's crazy.
00:22Since he was found guilty in a corruption and fraud case that involved this Malaysian businessman, Jho Low, and...
00:31And he faces maximum 22 years in prison.
00:34He hasn't been sentenced yet.
00:35I'm still not clear on why he hasn't been sentenced.
00:38That's crazy.
00:38But he hasn't been, and that's coming up soon.
00:41So how do you hedge your bets, and what do you do when you know the boom is about to fall?
00:48Look, and if you're a celebrity, as Praz is, you might feel like you have an upper hand in that President Trump himself, before being in politics, is a celebrity, and he does like to mingle with celebrities.
01:02So maybe you can convince him.
01:04But there's a layer on top of being a celebrity.
01:10It's being a celebrity who knows how to flatter.
01:13Exactly.
01:14So that's why this clip we got with Praz here in L.A. might go a long way.
01:20It's not a seat that, you know, we're working on, you know, apart.
01:24And so that was just, you know, my chains, you know, we're hopeful that it's going to go, you know.
01:31So that's all we can ask for.
01:32Do you have a message for the president?
01:34Because, well, you know, he's a busy guy, you know, but he does check out TMZ, I'll tell you that.
01:40Big up to him and everything he's got going on.
01:43And obviously, you know, I hope, you know, to turn an eye on me, obviously.
01:48Want to give a big shout out to my man, also, Free Tory Lanez, you know, thank you.
01:52You think he deserves a pardon as well?
01:54Yeah, but the president can't pardon him because it's a state situation.
01:58Don't mention Tory Lanez.
02:00Yeah, you were doing well, Praz.
02:02Don't mention other people.
02:03Don't bring up other people.
02:04Just talk to the president.
02:06I agree.
02:07He should focus on himself because he's been focused on this for, like you said, the past two years.
02:11He's even put it in the song that the DOJ is corrupt.
02:14You know, when he went at Lauryn Hill, you know, his Fuji's bandmate.
02:18But no, he's been campaigning every which way.
02:20And like, I think he's really, really hopeful that, you know, Trump will, you know, throw him a bone.
02:26That is another thing that would appeal to Trump because he said that the DOJ under Biden was corrupt.
02:33And you know that Trump will agree with that.
02:36Trump has said the same thing that they were persecuting me.
02:39If Praz plays that card, you got a good chance.
02:42No, it's...
02:42But leave Tory Lanez out of it, man.
02:45Do not...
02:45Why bring Tory Lanez up?
02:47First of all, you're right.
02:48He can't even pardon Tory Lanez because it's a state case.
02:51All you're doing is mucking things up.
02:52I think at the end he did appeal to Governor Newsom to do that, but...
02:56Don't mix it up.
02:57Right.
02:57Cover your own ass before you cover others.
03:00As another rapper said, you only get one shot.
03:04God.
03:06God.