Brooklyn rapper

Bobby Shmurda will be released from prison by tomorrow, February 23.

Shmurda, whose

legal name is Ackquille Pollard, was sentenced to seven years after pleading

guilty to conspiracy and weapons possession charges in connection to what

prosecutors said was a leading role in the GS9 gang, The New York Times reported.

Authorities

arrested Shmurda in late 2014 after he left a recording studio near Radio City

Music Hall, only days after he performed Hot

Boy for a national television audience on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Investigators found two handguns and a smallamount of crack cocaine in a car in which he was riding, authorities said.

Shmurda was denied

parole in September, in part for disciplinary actions taken against him while

incarcerated, and subsequently ordered to his maximum sentence until Dec. 21,

2021. He is currently incarcerated at Clinton Correctional Facility in

Dannemora, New York, according to the Department of Corrections inmate

database.

A review by the

Department of Corrections later restored his credit for good behaviour.

Shmurda is eligible

for conditional release as of Feb. 23, with the remainder of his sentence to be

served on parole.