On May 7, 2013 Ja-Rule was released from prison after serving nearly two years on gun and tax evasion charges.

The rapper served a 2-year sentence in 2010 when he pled guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon stemming from a 2007 incident where cops found a loaded semi-automatic handgun in his sports car. He turned himself in to authorities in June 2011.

In July 2011, Ja Rule was sentenced to 28 months behind bars for tax evasion, after failing to pay taxes on more than $3 million in earnings from 2004-2006. Ja Rule served the tax evasion sentence concurrently with his gun possession sentence.

The rapper was let out of a prison in Ray Brook, New York, but remained under house arrest until 28 July. Sources also recently reported that he hasn’t paid taxes in 11 years.