Kevin Gates has been sitting in a cell at Illinois East Moline Correctional Facility for the past nine months. Now, it looks like the New Orleans MC is finally getting out of prison, according to TMZ.
Illinois Department of Corrections’ spokesperson Lindsey Hess reportedly said Gates is scheduled to be released next Wednesday (January 10) and added that he’ll be out on parole. His terms of release include mandatory supervision. As part of those conditions, he’s not allowed to possess any firearms either.
Gates is serving a 30-month prison sentence for a gun charge, which he started shortly after serving 180 days in Polk County jail for battery in 2016.
(The original version of this article was posted on December 26, 2017 and can be found below.)
Kevin Gates is currently serving a 30-month prison sentence at East Moline Correctional Facility in Illinois and may be out on parole as soon as January 10, 2018, if all goes well. Gates’ previous parole date was set for June 22.
If parole is granted for the 31-year-old MC, born Kevin Jerome Gilyard, he will be off parole in January 10, 2019, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections website (which inexplicably says he has no tattoos).
Shortly after releasing Islah at the top of 2016, Gates served a 180-day sentence in Polk County jail after being found guilty of battery for kicking a fan at a Lakeland, Florida show. He was then transferred to East Moline Correctional Center on April 27 due to a gun charge case in Illinois dating back to 2013.
His certified platinum Islah album peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 and his wife Dreka, who has been handling all Bread Winners’ Association and family business while Gates has been locked up, helped facilitate the release of his By Any Means mixtape this past September.
Luca Brasília 3
He defo looks like a lesbian. Crazy.
Heres the thing……I DONT CARE
U don’t care but u cared enough to write u don’t care
Ignorance is bliss
Here the Thing… Then why are you here?
Marks scars tattoos none recorded? The fuck could you miss them.. free gates!
I dont usually respond but I will this time. I don’t see Kevin gates as a star so for me its a non story. I get tired of hearing about this a rapper or that rapper being paroled. Its the only genre of music where so many artists get locked up. This happens a lot because of bad decisions and choices that these ‘stars’ make. So I don’t have any sympathy for these artists and as grown men and women they should be mature enough to make sensible choices.
U gotta be a spineless mf to comment negatively about somebody’s release from carceration dawg..
I totally agree people should mind there own shit everybody makes mistakes. So let him get back to doing what he does best I LOVE HIM AND HIS MUSIC ALWAYS
PLease keep this fake Muslim, talentless, incest cousin fucker in prison. Can the president do an unpardon? Help us out Donald. He should stay in jail just for the wack ass music he put out when he was free. Dude looks like Missy Elliot…
Lol broke MFS always hating typical peon shyt…
Free Gates!
Bra got CLONED!
Isn’t this the dude that buttfucked his half-sister after getting turned on watching an instructional trans-gender breast feeding video? Well congrats to his community that he’s coming home I guess.
Another wack so called rapper non story sure he will violate parole within a year. Facts.
“website .. says he has no tattoos” I see what you did there HipHopDX. Tryna pull a PsyOp on us and manipulate us to think he must be innocent.
What happened to Luca in the movie again?
He sleeps with the fishes?
Yep, he a gay fish
Mr Exaggerated Mean Mug is back.
Why was he in Prison in the first place? He is a honorable muslim Brother
Don’t say u a Muslim while also using drugs and glorifying criminality. This kafir is a complete joke.
Yep. This idiot just uses Islam as a gimmick to try to stand out from the other rappers and get some kind of attention. This fuckboi is only a Muslim when it suits him. “Oh I went to Mecca so I’m a real Muslim now y’all”…..dumbass. “Now I’m gonna go back to using all kinds of drugs and making the same usual contradictory lyrics in my music. I SWEAR IM NOT A HYPOCRITE DOE”
What’s even more haram is backbiting. May Al-Hadiyy Rashid guide us all
Can Muslims blaze though? And what about opium? Just wondering cause the heavy opium producers are predominately Muslim countries.
No they cannot. That is haram. And even though 90% of the world opium is produced in Afghanistan, this is exported out out of the country to produce the worlds heroin etc.
But you are backbiting and that is haram. Seek forgiveness for eating the flesh of your brother live on Hiphopdx and pray for him and us all to be guided. Those who call out the sins of others hide the sins of their own
Show me any verse or scripture that states drugs are not allowed…. I’ll wait. All religions are made up bs anyway! You think it’s ok to beat women for showing skin but no don’t ever do ingest something that will make u feel better and mellow u out. Foh
Has this dude ever heard of a nail clippers? Them long ass nails are disgusting.
Way to many dummies like this dude and a long list of no talent bums are getting spot light its sad once release this coward will be hitting females carrying guns just a waste of time for the public to see and hear
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Thank God for old school hip-hop and the underground….these Youngblood today are garbage