Flint, Michigan, rapper Rio da Yung OG was released from a federal prison in Arkansas on Wednesday, December 11. The musician had been serving a 60-month sentence of imprisonment after he agreed to plead guilty to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
Rio da Yung OG will complete his sentence via “community confinement,” a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson tells Pitchfork. Community confinement means the musician can serve his time at a halfway house or through home confinement. His projected release date from custody is Saturday, July 12, 2025, and his sentence will be followed by 18 months of supervised release.
Rio da Yung OG and his co-defendants were indicted by a grand jury, in Michigan, in 2019, and he he began his federal prison sentence in 2021. His music has been released sporadically during the years of his incarceration, with projects like Fiend Lives Matter and Rio Circa 2020 popping up on digital streaming platforms. Rio da Yung OG will celebrate his release from federal prison with a concert at Detroit’s Masonic Temple on January 11.
