Rapper's Ex Denied Shorter Sentence in Deadly Robbery

The state denied a jailed rapper’s former flame an early release from a New Jersey prison Wednesday.

Gina Conway, 36, is currently serving a 15-year sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Union for her part in a Fort Lee hotel room robbery that left one man dead in 2006, according to NJ.com.

Conway and another man, working for the rapper Max B, forced their way into the Holiday Inn room and tied up two victims, according to the website. The man with Conway, Kelvin Leerdam, eventually shot and killed a third man during the incident.

Conway's testimony was key in the felony murder and armed robbery convictions of Max B—real name Charles Wingate—and Leerdam.

In her appeal, denied Wednesday, Conway argued her confession to police in the days after the murder was involuntary and that her sentence was excessive, claims the state panel rejected, according to NJ.com. 

As the sentence stands, Conway is expected to be released in June of 2019.

While the Harlem rapper Max B—aka Biggaveli, The Silver Surfer, Wavie Crockett, Boss Don—is hardly a household name, within the hip hop community he has a prolific mixtape release history, and last year received a nod from Jay-Z on Rick Ross's "3 Kingz".