Soulja Boy has been arrested and charged with possession of a firearm throughout a visitors cease.
The rapper, whose actual identify is DeAndre Cortez Approach, was a passenger within the automobile that was stopped within the Fairfax space of Los Angeles early on Sunday morning, the LAPD mentioned.
“A passenger was detained and police arrested DeAndre Cortez Way for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm,” the assertion added.
Possessing a firearm as a convicted felon is a felony.
The 35-year-old was booked into jail within the LAPD’s Wilshire Division shortly after 6am. It isn’t clear if he has since been launched.
Police didn’t present info on what prompted the visitors cease and who else was within the car with Approach.
Soulja Boy is but to publicly touch upon the incident.
Soulja Boy is greatest identified for his 2007 hit Crank That, which topped the Billboard Sizzling 100 for seven weeks and landed him a nomination for greatest rap music on the Grammys.
The rapper was arrested and charged with a felony in 2014 for carrying a loaded gun throughout a visitors cease in LA.
In April this 12 months, the Chicago hip-hop artist was ordered to pay greater than $4m (£3m) in damages to his former assistant after being discovered answerable for sexually assault, in addition to bodily and emotionally abusing them.
