21 Savage Says ICE "Definitely Targeted" Him In First Post-Release Interview On "GMA"

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21 Savage performs onstage during the Meadows Music And Arts Festival - Day 1 at Citi Field on September 15, 2017 in New York City.
21 Savage is set to discuss his arrest, his time in ICE's detention center and more.

21 Savage is fresh out of ICE's detainment and obviously, people have a lot of questions for him. The rapper was arrested on allegations that he was in America illegally, a point his team has refuted from the jump. Tomorrow morning, the rapper will appear on Good Morning America for his first interview since his arrest on Super Bowl Sunday.

21 Savage will be doing his first post-release interview with Good Morning America tomorrow morning. The rapper will be discussing his arrest, the detainment center he was at as well as a 77-year-old man he met inside of the detention center who he said he wants to help get into a retirement home, according to Complex. 

"I don't even know," Savage said in response to what happened when he was arrested. "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 recalled. "They didn't say nothing. [They] said, 'We got Savage.'"

Adding, "I was definitely targeted."

21 Savage was granted bond earlier this week after spending over a week in ICE's detention center. Upon his release, his legal team issued a statement on his behalf.

"He will not forget this ordeal or any of the other fathers, sons, family members, and faceless people, he was locked up with or that remain unjustly incarcerated across the country,” it reads. "And he asks for your hearts and minds to be with them."


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