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FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2014 file photo, Bobby Shmurda performs at Power 105.1's Powerhouse 2014 at the Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Shmurda, a once up-and-coming rapper, thanks to a hit music video that popularized the "Shmoney dance," was paroled on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, after spending more than four years behind bars for a drug gang conviction.
FILE — In this Oct. 19, 2016 file photo, rapper Bobby Shmurda, whose birth name is Ackquille Pollard, appears in a Manhattan court, in New York. Shmurda, a once up-and-coming rapper, thanks to a hit music video that popularized the "Shmoney dance," was paroled on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, after spending more than four years behind bars for a drug gang conviction.
NEW YORK (AP) — Bobby Shmurda, a once up-and-coming rapper thanks to a hit music video that popularized the “Shmoney dance,” was paroled on Tuesday after spending more than four years behind bars for a drug gang conviction.
Authorities confirmed Shmurda was released from a New York prison amid speculation about whether he would attempt a music industry comeback.
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