Ja Rule has been released early from jail after serving two concurrent sentences.
The rapper (real name: Jeffrey Atkins) received a two-year sentence at the Ray Brook Federal Prison in New York stemming from a 2007 weapons charge in which a loaded semi-automatic gun was found in his car.
He turned himself in to the police in 2011 and served jail time for illegal gun possession as well as for tax evasion after he failed to pay taxes on $3 million in earnings between 2004 and 2006.
He was picked up by his wife from jail and will be at home on house arrest until July 28. His lawyer, Melanie Bonvicino, noted: "[He] looks forward to spending some time with his family while he completes his memoir."
The rapper's last album, Pain Is Love 2, was released last year.
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