Flint, Michigan rapper Rio Da Yung OG is officially free after serving three years of a five-year sentence. The rapper, whose ...

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History: Flint native Rio Da Yung OG is a prolific rapper who racked up millions of streams while on house arrest for drug trafficking charges in 2019. In a six-year period while battling his legal ...

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It wasn’t the Super Bowl. It wasn’t the Grammys. It wasn’t a PlaqueBoyMax stream. It was something real, the kind of night Michigan rappers dream of. In early January, I headed to Detroit for Rio da ...

Flint, Michigan, rapper Rio da Yung OG was released from a federal prison in Arkansas on Wednesday, December 11. The musician had been serving a 60-month sentence of imprisonment after he agreed to ...