Silentó, the Atlanta rapper known for his viral hit “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” pleaded guilty but mentally ill on Wednesday to voluntary manslaughter and other charges in the 2021 shooting death of his 34-year-old cousin.

The 27-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Ricky Lamar Hawk, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston said in a statement.

Hawk also pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, possessing a gun while committing a crime and concealing the death of another. His murder charge was dropped as part of the plea agreement.

Silentó hit song above

DeKalb County police found Frederick Rooks III shot in the leg and face in the early morning hours of Jan. 21, 2021 outside a home near the suburban area Decatur. Police said they found 10 bullet casings near Rooks’ body, and security video from a nearby home showed a white BMW SUV speeding away shortly after the gunshots.

The rapper was only a high school junior when he released hit song “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” which turned into a global dance craze. Silentó made multiple other albums, but said in an interview with the medical talk show “The Doctors” in 2019 that he struggled with depression and had grown up in a family where he witnessed mental illness and violence.

“I’ve been fighting demons my whole life, my whole life,” he said in 2019.

Chanel Hudson, Silento’s PR manager, released a statement:

“Please send my client Silentó some positive vibrations. Over the past several years, Ricky has been suffering immensely from a series of mental health illnesses. We will continue in his efforts of treatment, but we ask in the meantime the public uplift him and his family in immediate prayer and positive energy!!

“Ricky is a beautiful soul, and we hope that the same people who came up whipping’ & nay nay-in with him, continue to support him and lifted in prayer!! God bless”