
Biden commutes prison sentence of Detroit rapper Drunken Master
The ‘50 Playaz Deep’ emcee says he has a new appreciation for life: ‘I guess God had another plan for me’
I’m just blessed to be back with my boots on the ground and a clean ‘face card,’ if you know what I mean,” he tells Metro Times by phone. “I didn’t rat on anybody, I just did my time and the planets lined up — which is crazy, because I expected to spend the rest of my life behind bars. I guess God had another plan for me. It was a dark time, but things are looking better.”
Harris’s prison sentence stemmed from a 2016 incident in which he was caught in Alabama in possession of 20 kilograms of cocaine with intent to distribute. He was sentenced to 10 years at the Federal Correctional Institution in Morgantown, West Virginia, which was to be followed by a five-year term of supervised release.
“I got caught red-handed,” Harris says, adding that he was trying to provide a better life for his son, who has autism. “I made a wrong decision and got caught,” he says.
Another turn came amid the COVID-19 pandemic, when thousands of prisoners were released in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus inside densely packed prisons. Harris was released from Morgantown to home confinement due to having already served half of his sentence, good behavior, and having a qualifying health condition, high blood pressure.
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