It won’t be long before Ja Rule returns to Hip-Hop.

This morning at about 9:30 a.m., the platinum rapper was released from Mid-State Correctional Facility in New York after serving a two-year sentence for illegal gun possession. Not long after, he was taken into federal custody to begin serving a 28-month sentence for a tax evasion charges.

According to his defense attorney Stacey Richman, Rule may have to serve another 6-months before he can be released to a halfway house. In an interview with the AP, she says, an order to pay $1.1 million in back taxes is one of the main reasons he wants to get back to work.