Former Bad Boy Rapper G. Dep Released from Prison: See the Clips
Rapper Travell “G. Dep” Coleman was officially released from prison on Thursday (April 4).
In a series of posts to his Instagram on Thursday, G. Dep fully documented his release from Fishkill Correctional Facility in Upstate New York. Throughout the videos, the rapper can be seen exiting the facility, riding in a car back to New York City, and enjoying his first meal as a free person in nearly 14 years at an IHOP. “I’m free at last,” he says in his video at the restaurant.
Late last year, after serving 13 years of a 15-years-to-life sentence, the former Bad Boy signee was among 16 individuals granted clemency by New York Governor Kathy Hochul. In 2010, Coleman walked into Harlem’s 25th Precinct and confessed to a 17-year-old cold murder case. Back in 1993, he shot 32-year-old John Henkel in a botched robbery and fled the scene, tossing the murder weapon into the East River. After learning that Henkel passed away, Coleman said the murder weighed heavily on his conscience.
In a 2010 interview with the New York Post, Coleman claimed that he had struggled with drug addiction, which played a factor in his decision to come forward. “That’s just the life I was living back then,” he said. “I started to wonder if all the bad things that happened to me in my life were karma for what I did … you start to think, ‘My happiness is because of someone else’s sadness.’ I thought that if I turned myself in, it might give me closure.”
Coleman signed to Bad Boy in 1999, releasing his solo debut Child of the Ghetto two years later. He had a hit in “Special Delivery,” which reached number three on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart and was featured on “Let’s Get It” alongside labelmate Black Rob and Bad Boy founder Puff Daddy.
See the clips chronicling G. Dep’s release below:
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