In 2011, New York City rapper Tru Life was sentenced to eight years in prison for his participation in the 2009 stabbing death of 20-year-old man Christopher Guerrero. Dren Starr, a friend from the same Lower East Side, NY neighborhood as the incarcerated rapper, posted a picture of a letter he received from Tru Life recently and claimed that he is coming home in two weeks.

"Just came from the mailbox and got that kite from fam," he wrote. "Tru Life touch down in two weeks. It's 'bout to be lit."

However, on the latest installment of ItsTheReal's "A Waste of Time" podcast (below), guest Cipha Sounds, who is a friend of Tru Life's, said that he will not be getting out early. "He was supposed to get an early release but he didn't get it. I'm not supposed to talk about it, he hates when I talk about it."

The rapper, who had signed to the Roc-La Familia imprint under Jay Z's Roc-A-Fella records, and his brother Robert Rosardo had gotten into an argument at a nightclub that spilled into an apartment building lobby. The Rosado brothers chased Guerrero and his friend Jason Gray into the building lobby and proceeded to stab Guerrero in the abdomen and cut one of Gray's arteries. Tru pleaded guilty to gang assault and was sentenced in March 2011.

“Robert and Marcus Rosado accepted responsibility today for their role in the tragic incident that occurred in June 2009,” their lawyer, Alan A. Ambramson, told XXL following the sentencing. “They wish to express their deepest sympathies to the Guerrero family and they hope that by accepting responsibility he can bring some measure of closure to the family."

In 2011, a source close to Billboard said that the rapper had already completed two years and was expected to serve four-and-a-half of the final six years if he stayed on good behavior.

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