Hip-hop artist Petey Pablo, best known for his songs “Freek-a-Leek and “Raise Up” has been sentenced in North Carolina to almost three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing a stolen firearm.

Pablo was arrested for carrying a loaded gun in one of his bags that passed through the x-ray machine in Raleigh-Durham International Airport . The gun was found to have been stolen during a 2005 home burglary in Gardena, Calififornia.