He is from Atlanta, the stronghold of American rap, but 21 Savage was arrested Sunday in the United States by the immigration services who blamed him for not having a visa, and consider him as ... British.
The 26-year-old musician, whose real name is Sha Yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, has always put his roots in the great metropolis of Georgia (south-east). Without expanding on the details of his biography, including the place of his birth: Atlanta according to some sources, the island of Dominica, a sovereign state of the Caribbean, according to others.
But according to an immigration spokesman, Bryan Cox, quoted by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he is "an illegally present UK national" on American soil. He had been a teenager, in 2005, with a one-year visa never renewed.
"We are working diligently to take Mr. Abraham-Joseph out of custody, working with the authorities to dispel any misunderstanding," Saver's lawyer Dina LaPolt told AFP.
The rapper had previously been involved in a narcotics case, but he did not reveal that he was a stranger.
He has signed two albums, "Issa Album" in 2017 and "I Am> I Was" at the end of 2018, the best sale of the first two weeks of 2019. He talks about themes that have marked his life, such as drugs, racism and police violence.