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Atlanta rapper 21 Savage booked into Georgia jail on felony warrant

21 Savage attends the CFDA / Vogue Fashion Fund 15th Anniversary Event at Brooklyn Navy Yard on November 5, 2018 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

ATLANTA, Ga. — It was a busy day for Atlanta rapper 21 Savage Friday, starting with a pretaped appearance on "Good Morning America," followed by being booked into a South Georgia jail on a felony theft by deception warrant. He was later released, according to the Liberty County Sheriff's Office.

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The Friday legal matter is connected to a concert booking from 2016 for which a promoter paid the musician, whose real name is She'yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, $17,000, TMZ reported. The rapper kept the money but did not perform, so the promoter filed paperwork to get a warrant issued for his arrest, according to TMZ's report.

"The warrant is from some years ago, and he went through the process and addressed the issue," Liberty County Sheriff Steve Sikes told the Coastal Courier newspaper in Hinesville.