YoungBoy Never Broke Again's request to be released from prison has been granted, and now he is serving his sentence under house arrest.
The rapper, born Kentrell Gaulden, was released from the St. Martin Parish jail in Louisiana Tuesday afternoon, according to ABC Baton Rouge affiliate WBRZ-TV. Federal prosecutors agreed to allow Gaulden out of jail on a $1.5 million bond for a California charge of a felon in possession of a firearm. Home detention was ordered for separate gun and drug possession charges in Baton Rouge, and he is now being monitored at his home in Utah.
Over 150,000 people signed a Change.org petition asking President Joe Biden to release YoungBoy.
The 21-year-old rapper has been in custody since March after he was arrested in Los Angeles. He was previously arrested in September 2020 during a video shoot in Baton Rouge, which is his home town. Three weeks ago, YoungBoy's latest album, Sincerely, Kentrell, replaced Drake's Certified Lover Boy at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart. This week it ranks number four. He recorded the album over the phone while incarcerated.
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Gaulden is the first hip hop artist to have a number-one album in each of the last three years: 2021, 2020 and 2019. His previous studio album, 2020's Top, and his respective 2020 and 2019 mixtapes, 38 Baby 2 and Al YoungBoy 2, each reached the top of the Billboard 200.
Gaulden has kicked off the Sincerely, Kentrell freestyle competition by inviting fans to rap over album instrumental tracks on a special YouTube channel. The grand prize winner will receive a free recording session with his studio engineer, Jason "Cheese" Goldberg.