Rapper 21 Savage has given his first interview since his release on bond, saying he was deliberately targeted and tracked with a helicopter by cops who said 'we got savage' when they snared him.
The Grammy nominated star spoke with Good Morning America after leaving the detention center Wednesday and claimed police 'said nothing more' when they pulled him over on February 3.
In the interview, set to air Friday morning, 21 Savage told ABC News' Linsey Davis: 'I was just driving. And I just seen guns and blue lights. And, then, I was in the back of a car. And I was gone.
'They didn't — they didn't say nothing. They just said, 'We got Savage. It was definitely targeted. There was helicopters.' He later clarified there was one helicopter.
The 26-year-old recording artist's legal team have already raised the possibility that 21 Savage was the victim of a vendetta by ICE officials who were angered by his criticism of Trump's family separation policy at the US-Mexico border.
Rapper 21 Savage has given his first interview since his release on bond
The musician spoke with Good Morning America and told ABC News' Linsey Davis, right, he was deliberately targeted and tracked with a helicopter
He flew home on a private jet soon after being released from an detention center on a $100,000 bond in Georgia Wednesday. He was arrested on February 3.
The rapper, whose given name is She'yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, posed with his mother, Heather Joseph, as they prepared to board the plane.
ICE officials said the British citizen overstayed his visa and has an October 2014 felony conviction in Fulton County.
They have accused him of living a 'false' life in the U.S. and said he came legally to America in July 2005 when he was aged 12. Officials said his visa expired a year later and he has lived in the U.S. illegally ever since.
But his lawyers have said the rapper was brought to the U.S. when he was seven and his legal status expired in 2006 through no fault of his own. They characterized him as a 'Dreamer' who has been the victim of a 'great deal of misreporting' that's led to 'false conclusions'.
According to his birth certificate, he was born on October 22, 1992, at Newham
