A wannabe rapper was busted for a long-unsolved acid attack that left a Long Island college student blind in one eye – after authorities used the hip-hop half-wit’s cringey song lyrics to track him down.

Terrell Campbell, 29, — who uses the rap name “Yung Based Prince” — appeared in Nassau County Court Tuesday on charges he splashed a toxic cocktail with sulfuric acid directly in the face of Nafiah Ikram as she stood in her Elmont driveway in 2021.

Campbell, a Brooklyn resident, put himself on authorities’ radar with a barely-viewed YouTube music video of a song called “Obsidian” where he brags about an attack eerily similar to the one that left Ikram covered in scars.

“On the street in the night like a hitman assassin, try to run up, have your face burning in acid,” Campbell raps, stretching for a rhyme. The clip was posted two years after the attack, which prosecutors claimed showed the would-be-rapper had grown confident he wouldn’t be caught.

It had fewer than 100 views by the day of his arrest.

Campbell, dressed in lumberjack-pattern pajama pants and a red coat, kept his head down as prosecutors described Ikram’s gruesome injuries and the lifelong damage she suffered. The suspected attacker only lifted his eyes to plead not guilty to charges of assault, criminal possession of a weapon and unlawful possession of noxious material.

He was ordered held without bail.

At one point during his arraignment, the courtroom fell silent as the prosecution detailed how an officer described Ikram’s injuries as looking like her skin was “falling off.”

“Her life has not been and never will be the same since that night,” Assistant District Attorney Brian Rodriguez told the court.

“This is one of the most vicious and barbaric acts this county has ever seen.”

Ikram — then a 21-year-old Hofstra pre-med student — was standing in her Elmont home’s driveway moments after returning from work at CVS in March 2021 when a masked assailant sprinted toward her and threw a cup filled with 70% sulfuric acid directly into her face.

The liquid melted her contact lenses and gave her second- and third-degree burns on her face, arms and chest. She previously told The Post that she thought to herself “God please, I’m 21 years old. This is not how I want to die.”

It’s not yet clear why Campbell allegedly targeted Ikram, but prosecutors said the assault was anything but random.

A Google account tied to his rap alias and phone number recorded chilling searches starting minutes after the attack that desperately looked for help finding “sulfuric acid remover” to clean up the mess he allegedly left in his car.

Additional searches in the days after included whether FaceTime can be tracked, “eye for an eye” under Hammurabi’s law, whether police protect victims, and how to recover from sulfuric acid burns — all before any media coverage of the attack had broken the news.

That video shared by police after the attack showed the car lingering outside the Elmwood home for half an hour before a hooded and gloved attacker rushed Ikram, threw the acid and rushed back to the waiting vehicle.

Campbell apparently thought he was in the clear as time dragged on — leaving him confident enough to brag about it in his failed rap song,” District Attorney Anne Donnelly said.

“It is clear, this heartless defendant intended to cause her irreversible harm. And later, he cared so little about the traumatic life-bouldering injuries he caused, he used the attack to try to further his rap career,” Donnelly said.

“Two years after he ambushed Nafiah and left her screaming in pain on her front lawn, he actually produced and uploaded a music video to YouTube boasting about throwing acid in a woman’s face. As unbelievable as it may seem, it is still up on YouTube,” she continued, referencing his song with the “sickening, cruel and brazen” lyrics.

“A harrowing attack boiled down to some lyrics to get him attention.” 

Ikram, now 26, first thought she had been splashed with warm juice until the corrosive substance began burning her flesh.

She later described the experience as “worse than death” — and one that left her with physical and mental scars.

She battled anxiety and depression and has undergone numerous surgeries in the years since the assault, and publicly condemned authorities for “not doing enough” to capture the culprit.

Ikram has said her motivation in seeking justice was to ensure no one else would suffer a similar attack, describing the experience as mentally devastating and something she would never want another person to endure.

Police previously said there was no evidence to determine whether the assault was a hate crime, a view Ikram and her family have echoed.

Ikram continued to forge ahead despite the hardships and returned to classes at Hofstra University to achieve her dream of one day becoming a doctor.

The brave survivor, with her family and attorneys by her side, stared down the deranged man in court. They declined to comment to The Post.

Campbell’s father was also in court, but flipped off reporters as he fled the arraignment.

Campbell’s defense attorney, Greg Zak, urged the court not to confuse shocking allegations with proof. Zak argued Campbell has no criminal history, has lived in Brooklyn his entire life, works delivering flowers, and holds a college degree — but the judge was unmoved and ordered Campbell held without bail.

He faces 25 years behind bars.

His next court date is Feb. 18.