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Former Bad Boy Rapper G. Dep Says Murder Conviction Was "God's Will" [Audio]

Two days after being convicted of second-degree murder, G. Dep spoke to MTV News on Thursday (April 19), where he reacted to the verdict from behind bars.

"However it went down, it was just one of them things where I knew I was facing some type of charge, so whatever the verdict was, I knew it was God's will," Dep said by phone as he awaits sentencing in lockup.

The former Bad Boy rapper, born Trevell Coleman, was found guilty on Tuesday of killing John Henkel in a botched robbery attempt nearly two decades ago in his hometown of Harlem. Coleman made headlines in 2010 after he confessed — unprovoked — that he had committed the crime in a surprising confession to police at Manhattan's 25th precinct. At the time, Coleman said that he longed to clear his conscience.

Although he took blame for the shooting, Coleman's lawyer, Anthony Ricco, argued in court last week that the victim was not the same man that police had pinned to the crime.

Despite the outcome, the 37-year-old seemed at peace with the judgment call. "You know, someone was taken from [the Henkel] family, so I can't feel like I was robbed in any kind of way," he said. "I just want to thank everyone that was involved in the case. I don't have no ill thoughts towards anybody."

That is if you don't count a few reporters who covered the case for New York's Daily News.

"I just wanna let people know there's a couple of reporters out there that's just talking that talk," he snarled. "I just had to make sure everything was everything," he explained about his decision to fight the charge in court. "I was already putting myself out there. I had to make sure everything was what it was. That's why the trial even was on."

G. Dep signed to Diddy's Bad Boy Records in 1998, and went on to release his debut LP, Child of the Ghetto, in 2001. The record spawned two well-received singles, "Let's Get It" and "Special Delivery," but Dep's rap career failed to take off. By 2003, he had parted ways with Bad Boy. Coleman took another stab at the industry, dropping a mixtape the following year, but his various arrests and battles with drug abuse thwarted those efforts.

Dep is scheduled for sentencing on May 8, when he'll face up to 15 years in jail.

"I'ma just stay strong and hopefully I'll see y'all in the near future or the far future," Dep said when asked how he feels about the impending jail time. "I know life goes on, praise God. And one day maybe I could say hello to y'all again."

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Comment by Big Reed1 on April 20, 2012 at 6:48pm: God's will was cop out. You f***** up. You coulda made a better choice. But its God's will? Is it God's will you killen the next man tryen to get money for his family just like you were supposedly doen? N***** got life and business f***** up. White people, and every other race win while we kill each other off. SMH

Comment by richard allan on April 20, 2012 at 12:30pm: No matter what God you claim as yours, it's never God's will for man to lose his freedom. GDep has his spiritual facts wrong. God's will wasn't for him to go to prison. GDep's own free will and poor decision making put him in prison so effectively the prison sentence was the will of Gdep.

Comment by rizzy30 on April 20, 2012 at 12:16pm: special delivery was the s*** though.

Comment by kzm on April 20, 2012 at 11:49am: Don't do drugs, its obvious this fool need rehab not jail!

Comment by NotoriousRambo on April 20, 2012 at 11:24am: IT WAS A SPECIAL DELIVERY FROM GOD

Comment by KEIZER SOZE on April 20, 2012 at 9:22am: SHERM is a HELLUVA DRUG (lol)

Comment by True2HipHop on April 20, 2012 at 8:27am: God's wish please man. The only reason you're saying it's Go'd Will is because you have no other logical explanation for it. You claim it was a wrongful conviction right, well if it's wrong then perhaps the system might let you go, unless it's all a lie. God don't will s*** people do s***. Plus your probably also in jail because there's a double standard when it comes to convicting blacks, lets not act like it's not true. Either way if your innocent then eventually you will be free hopefully but Why would god want to put a man in Jail, that makes not sense?