21 Savage says he was ‘targeted’ by ICE in ‘GMA’ interview, mom thanks supporters
In his first interview since being released on bond earlier this week, 21 Savage said he was “definitely targeted” by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The full interview with the Atlanta rapper, who was arrested on Super Bowl Sunday for allegedly living in the U.S. illegally, will air during “Good Morning America” at 7 a.m. Friday on ABC.
In a clip released by the show, 21 Savage tells ABC News reporter Linsey Davis that he didn’t even know what was happening during his arrest.
“I was just driving and I just seen guns and blue lights. And then I was in the back of a car and I was gone,” he said.
Savage, 26, said authorities never told him he was under arrest.
“Nah, they didn’t say nothing,” he told Davis. “They just said, ‘We got Savage.’
Less than 24 hours after his release from an ICE detention center, rapper @21savage sits down with us and shares how it all went down, his 9 long days in detention and what he is most focused on now. pic.twitter.com/sURL7My1eP
— Linsey Davis (@LinseyDavis) February 14, 2019
Earlier Thursday, 21 Savage’s mother, Heather Joseph, posted a lengthy thank-you note on her Instagram account spotlighting the rapper’s fans, his legal and publicity teams and artists including Jay-Z, Cardi B, Offset, J Cole and Metro Boomin, for their support.
21 Savage most recently played Atlanta on the Thursday prior to the Super Bowl as part of the Bud Light Music Festival. He was slated to perform on Sunday’s Grammy Awards – where he was nominated for two awards with Post Malone –but was incarcerated at a federal immigration detention center in South Georgia.
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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.
