Gucci Mane is a free man.
After nearly three years in a federal prison on gun and drug charges, the iconic Atlanta rapper was officially released, according to multiple sources. He had most recently been held in a federal penitentiary in Indiana after pleading guilty in May 2014, receiving a 39-month sentence. He was arrested Sept. 13, 2013, after a bizarre multi-day Twitter tirade that took aim at several members of the hip-hop community and music industry at large.
According to Gucci's lawyer, Drew Findling, several months ago Findling and Gucci's legal team filed a motion to reduce the rapper's jail time by approximately six months, and Gucci was accordingly released this morning. He will be held in home confinement for a short period, after which he will immediately transition to supervised release, the federal version of probation. In the meantime, Gucci is back in Georgia and will return to being a recording artist, Findling says.
While behind bars, Gucci -- widely regarded as one of the most influential Atlanta rappers of the last decade, if not hip-hop as a whole -- didn't stay idle, releasing more than a dozen mixtapes from prison and collaborating with the likes of
Migos , Young Thug, Rich the Kid and Peewee Longway , among many others. The common "Free Gucci!" or "Free Guwop" (one of his myriad nicknames) catchphrase has popped up in a slew of hip-hop songs in the past few years.
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