21 Savage has had one impressive music career so far.
The 26 year old rapper from Atlanta, Georgia got his first taste of success when his song
“Red Opps” went viral and currently has over 100,000,000 views on YouTube at the time
of this recording.
21 Savage then went on to build a massive fanbase for himself that brings in solid numbers
on just about everything 21 releases.
But it wasn’t just his music that had fans obsessing over 21 Savage, it was also the
way he presented himself.
21 Savage gave off the type of vibe that he really was about the things he rapped about
and nobody ever even questioned it for a second.
But his latest situation with the law and immigration had everyone questioning everything
they thought they knew about 21 Savage.
ICE even came out and said that 21 Savage’s “whole public persona is false.”
But is that really the case?
Is 21 Savage actually a savage or is it all a persona to sell records?
Well, we have the answers.
Here is an exclusive inside look at the criminal history of 21 Savage.
Now, a lot of 21 Savage’s childhood is unknown but according to his team, 21 Savage was born
in the United Kingdom and migrated over to the United States when he was just 7 years
old despite the claims that 21 was only 12 or 14 years old when he came to America that
were circulating around online.
When 21 Savage came to America, he settled in east Atlanta.
Growing up, 21 Savage had little to know money and was surrounded by crime.
His first run in with the law happened when 21 Savage was only in the 7th grade.
According to 21, he had beef with a few classmates in school and one day got word that the group
of rascals were planning on jumping him.
21 Savage was not going to let that happen to him so he brought a pistol to school the
next day in hopes that they won’t jump him.
The group of rascals immediately scrapped their plans of jumping 21 and instead snitched
on him to the principal.
This led to 21 Savage getting expelled from the school he currently attended as well as
being banned from every other school in DeKalb County.
After spending a few days at home following his expulsion, his mom got sick of him just
sitting around the house and eventually just told 21 Savage that it was actually only a
10 day suspension in hopes that 21 would just go back to school and the teachers would act
like nothing happened but this wasn’t the case.
21 Savage did go back to school but he ended up just fighting the group of people he had
beef with which led to the school calling the cops on 21 Savage because he wasn’t
even supposed to be there.
21 was then sent to a juvenile detention center where he spent an unknown amount of time there.
Once released from the detention center, 21 Savage got accepted into an alternative school
where he actually made it through a school year without any problems and finished the
8th grade.
During that summer, 21 Savage got into selling kush to the Atlanta locals and was making
a pretty solid income.
He then started high school and completed only one semester before dropping out to become
a full time kush salesmen.
This decision led to 21 Savage getting involved with gangs and soon became affiliated with
the bloods.
Despite being a kush salesmen, 21 Savage also did car theft and other robberies through
east Atlanta and surprisingly only got arrested once during this period in his life.
That arrest happened in 2014, while 21 Savage was in the process of meeting up with one
of his clients.
On the way to the client, 21 was pulled over by the Fulton County police and was arrested
on felony drug charges.
This sounds bad but it must not have been because in early 2019, it was revealed that
the felony conviction was vacated and the charges for that arrest were dismissed back
in 2018.
After releasing where his life was heading, 21 Savage decided to make a change and focused
on rapping rather than crime.
A big thing that fueled this change in 21’s life was not only his felony arrest but rather
the fact that he lost his close friend in a shootout on his 21st birthday.
This change eventually resulted in 21 Savage become a worldwide celebrity and even amassed
a $12 million fortune in the process which is way more then he would have made if he
was still a kush salesmen.
But despite doing a complete 180 with his life, the police still managed to find a way
to arrest 21 Savage.
On February 3, 2019, 21 Savage was riding around Atlanta with his cousin and fellow
rapper, Young Nudy, and two other men when the vehicle was pulled over by law enforcement.
The reason why the vehicle was pulled over was because Young Nudy and the two other men
were targeted in a gang operation involving charges of aggravated assault and for violations
of the Georgia Gang Act.
21 Savage also claimed he was targeted due to the officers saying “We got Savage”
upon arresting him but this is unconfirmed.
After they were all detained, they discovered that 21 Savage is actually a british national
who has been living in the United States illegally ever since his non-immigrant visa expired
back in July of 2006.
Officers soon got ICE on the case and eventually arrested and held 21 Savage in a Immigration
holding cell in horrible conditions.
This all came as a huge shock to the hip hop community since everyone thought that 21 Savage
was born and raised in Atlanta and didn’t even give off the slightest clue that he was
from the U.K.
After his arrest, an ICE spokesperson came out and basically tried ruining 21 Savage’s
reputation by saying “his whole public persona is false.”
Which is weird for them to even say in the first place since it has nothing to do with
21’s situation.
After a few days in a ICE holding cell more details came out from 21 Savage’s team that
gave a better explanation of what was going on.
They confirmed that 21 Savage was in fact born in Newham, London but came to Atlanta
at the age of 7.
21 Savage’s visa did expire back in 2006 and he didn’t really have any concerns about
it until he wanted to start to tour outside of the country.
21’s team then went on to say that 21 Savage has been trying to get a new visa for several
years but has been having issues with the process due to his 2014 conviction that is
now overturned.
21 Savage ultimately spent 9 days in an ICE holding cell and was later released on a $100,000
bond.
The case is still pending and will continue to be pending for a long time but in the meantime,
21 Savage is still going about his business like nothing happened while his team handles
this situation privately.
They are confident that 21 won’t get deported.
21 Savage still had some legal troubles upon his release from ICE custody because days
after being released, the Liberty County Sheriff's office announced that they had a warrant for
21 Savage.
Once 21 got the news about his warrant, he immediately turned himself into authorities.
The charges against 21 Savage was one count of felony theft by deception.
This charge stemmed from a concert booking back in 2016 where allegedly 21 Savage was
booked by a promoter for $17,000 and ended up not showing up to the concert and kept
the money.
21 ended up being released the same day he turned himself in and is required to show
up to a court date in the near future.
His lawyers claim they have the situation under control and will have it taken care
of as soon as possible.
So in the end, 21 Savage seems to have a few incidents from his past catching up to him
but as of the recent 21 Savage has been keeping his hands clean of any crimes and plans to
keep it that way.
He has made it clear that he is a family man now and is really big into saving money.
I also want to note that 21 Savage is one of the few rappers who owns their own masters
to their songs so he clearly is a pretty smart guy when it comes to business.
I hope 21 Savage stays on this path of success and continues to win.
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