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Flint, Michigan rapper Rio Da Yung OG is officially free after serving three years of a five-year sentence. The rapper, whose influence grew even while incarcerated, has made a grand return to the ...

Rio Da Yung OG has dropped his first new music since being released from prison this week. "Rio Free" arrives alongside a video showing the Flint, Michigan rapper enjoying his first day of freedom, ...

History: Flint native Rio Da Yung OG is a prolific rapper who racked up millions of streams while on house arrest for drug trafficking charges in 2019. In a six-year period while battling his legal ...

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In 2021, Rio Da Yung OG was sentenced to five years in prison after he plead guilty to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. On Wednesday (Dec. 11), the Michigan rapper was ...

Flint, Michigan, rapper Rio da Yung OG was released from a federal prison in Arkansas on Wednesday, December 11. The musician had been serving a 60-month sentence of imprisonment after he agreed to ...