03 Greedo has been launched on parole from the Texas jail the place he had been held since 2018, when he acquired a 20-year sentence for drug and gun possession. After a profitable parole listening to in late June, Greedo spent the previous a number of weeks finishing a program to earn his freedom. He put out a mixtape celebrating his launch, Free 03, on Tuesday, January 10.
Police charged Greedo with drug and gun possession in 2018, after looking a automobile, on a doubtful pretext, wherein he had been touring, as The Washington Put up reported in 2020. Greedo was convicted of possessing greater than 400 grams of methamphetamine, and of illegal possession of a firearm by a felon. “By no means thought I’d need to retire the 12 months I blew up,” Greedo tweeted of his sentencing in 2018, shortly after the discharge of The Wolf of Grape Avenue. Since then, he has remained pivotal to Los Angeles rap by way of a string of information with artists together with Kenny Beats and Travis Barker.
After testing optimistic for COVID-19 in jail in 2020, Greedo instructed The Washington Put up, “For the primary time, individuals are actually seeing that racism is for actual. The mistreatment over racism and what the police have all the time executed is lastly being uncovered. However individuals don’t see what the police do to individuals’s lives in prisons. Or the courtroom system that has utterly stopped. They’ve used [the pandemic] as yet one more technique to self-discipline us.”
