Former Bad Boy Rapper G. Dep Released From Jail: Watch Clips

Rapper Travell “G. Depp Coleman was officially released from prison on Thursday (April 4th).

In a series of Instagram posts Thursday, G. Dep fully documented his release from Fishkill Correctional Facility in Upstate New York. In all of the videos, the rapper is seen exiting the facility, driving in a car back to New York and enjoying his first meal as a free man after nearly 14 years at an IHOP. “I'm finally free,” he says in his video at the restaurant.

Late last year, after serving 13 years of a 15-to-life sentence, the former Bad Boy signee was among 16 people pardoned by New York Governor Kathy Hochul. In 2010, Coleman walked into Harlem's 25th Precinct and confessed to a 17-year-old cold-blooded murder case. In 1993, he shot 32-year-old John Henkel in a botched robbery and fled the scene, throwing the deadly weapon into the East River. After learning Henkel had died, Coleman said the killing weighed heavily on his conscience.

In a 2010 interview with New York Post, Coleman claimed he had struggled with drug addiction, which played a factor in his decision to come forward. “This is the life I was living then,” he said. “I started to wonder if all the bad things that happened to me in my life were karma for what I did… you start thinking, 'My happiness is because of someone else's sadness.' I thought if I surrender, he might lock me up.”

Coleman signed to Bad Boy in 1999, releasing his solo debut Ghetto kid two years later. He had success with “Special Delivery”, which peaked at number three of Billboard on the Hot Rap Songs chart and appeared on “Let's Get It” alongside fellow Black Rob and Bad Boy founder Puff Daddy.

Check out the clips chronicling G. Dep's release below: