21 Savage will be released from ICE custody on Wednesday

After spending more than a week in a Georgia detention center, rapper 21 Savage will be released on bond Wednesday, his lawyers announced Tuesday.

The 26-year-old rapper, whose legal name is She'yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested on Feb. 3 in Atlanta as part of a targeted Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation. ICE said that he was born in Britain and was in the United States illegally, after overstaying a visa issued in 2005. In a statement, the rapper's lawyer Dina LaPolt said 21 Savage was "left without legal status through no fault of his own" because "as a minor, his family overstayed their work visas."

21 Savage was supposed to perform at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, and his song with Post Malone, "Rockstar," was was up for Record of the Year. On Facebook, his legal team said 21 Savage is "grateful for the support from around the world" and "will never forget this ordeal or any of the other fathers, sons, family members, and faceless people he was locked up with or that remain unjustly incarcerated across the country. And he asks for your hearts and minds to be with them." He is scheduled to appear in immigration court on April 11.

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