

and also a convicted felon.”Īccording to the rapper’s lawyer, Jacoby Hudson, “He’s not a convicted felon, so they reported that wrong, from their 2014 arrest.” Hudson knows this because he worked to get that arrest wiped from Abraham-Joseph’s record.

Abraham-Joseph was taken into ICE custody as he is unlawfully present in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested unlawfully present United Kingdom national Sha Yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph AKA ‘21 Savage’ during a targeted operation with federal and local law enforcement partners early Sunday in metro Atlanta. ‘21 Savage’ somehow managed to attract the attention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE, or Trump’s Gestapo for short) who apprehended the rapper, according to a statement released by ICE spokesperson Bryan Cox: First came the questions, followed closely by a flood of memes that eclipsed what is clearly an ICE campaign to make an example of a rapper who rapped “Been through some things so I can’t imagine my kids stuck at the border/Flint still need water/People was innocent, couldn’t get lawyers,” on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon just days before he was taken into ICE custody, according to XXL. In a twist worthy of this current era, with its cavalier relationship to reality and logic, the news that the rapper 21 Savage was born in England was still a shock to the system.
