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'Good Morning America' talks to 21 Savage about his immigration arrest

ATLANTA — You'll want to watch this one: "Good Morning America" has an exclusive interview with 21 Savage just a day after he was released from a federal immigration detention center in south Georgia.

The rapper, who lives in Atlanta, was arrested Super Bowl Sunday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. They said he's a U.K. citizen who overstayed his visa.

Since his arrest, 21 Savage had been held at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla.

You can watch the exclusive "Good Morning America" interview with 21 Savage at 7 a.m. Friday after Channel 9 Eyewitness News.

21 Savage’s deportation case is still pending in Atlanta and may not be resolved for a couple of years, his attorneys said.

Authorities said the musician was arrested during a "targeted operation" aimed at Young Nudy, another rapper, whose real name is Quantavious Thomas.

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21 Savage, 26, whose real name is She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, has claimed to be from Atlanta and has long been considered a local act.

He performed in Atlanta as recently as Thursday in the Super Bowl Music Fest at State Farm Arena.

Here's a preview of the interview:

LINSEY DAVIS: What happened?

21 SAVAGE: I don't even know. I was just driving, and I just seen guns and blue lights. Then, I was in the back of a car, and I was gone.

LINSEY DAVIS: They tell you you're under arrest?

21 SAVAGE: No, they didn't. They didn't say nothing. They just said, 'We got Savage.'

LINSEY DAVIS: Sounds like this was potentially something they set out to do … that this would have been targeted?

21 SAVAGE: It was definitely targeted. There was helicopters.

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