Rapper 21 Savage sat down for his first interview since recently being released on bond from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on Wednesday.
The rapper, whose full name is She'yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was asked by ABC News' Linsey Davis if he's concerned that he could be deported:
"Yeah, but I feel like I done been through so much in my life, like, I learned to embrace the times when I'm down 'cause they always build me up and take me to a new level in life... So it's like even if I'm sitting in a cell on 23-hour lockdown, in my mind, I know what's gonna come after that. So I'm not happy about it. But I'm accepting of it."
21 savage said that he arrived in the U.S. when he was 7 years-old, but then left the country in 2005 to attend his uncle's funeral and then returned to the U.S. that same year.
"I didn't even know what a visa was. I went into first grade here, so I don't really remember too much. I remember, like, my grandma house, and that's probably about it. I didn't really do much there. I've been in Atlanta probably 20 years, 19 years. I'm from Atlanta, in my eyes. I wasn't tryna hide it, but I didn't wanna get deported so I wasn't gonna just say 'I wasn't born here world.'"