Sam Bankman-Fried responds to Drake calling for his prison release
Sam Bankman-Fried has responded to Drake calling for his prison release on one of his new songs.
The Toronto rapper released his Iceman album on May 15th and name-dropped the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
Bankman-Fried is currently behind bars after being convicted of fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering charges in 2024. He was sentenced to 25 years and ordered to forfeit $11 billion.
On his new song, ‘Dust’, Drake mentions Bankman-Fried in the second verse. He raps, “An FTX penthouse high-riser, yeah/ Samuel Bankman, free all my guys up, yeah.”
Bankman-Fried took to social media on May 16th to react to Drake calling for him to be released from prison.
“@Drake The Drake stimulus package is real,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “Dust is a vibe – and when I get out, I can loan you my bean bag chair.”
Bankman-Fried was previously housed with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and shared what it was like to be around him.
“He’s been kind,” he said. “I’ve made some friends, it’s a weird environment. It’s a combination of a few other high-profile cases and a lot of alleged ex-gangsters. I’ve only seen one piece of him, which is Diddy in prison. He’s been kind to people in the unit, he’s been kind to me.”
He continued, “It’s kind of a soul-crushing place for the world in general, and what we see are just the people that are around us on the inside rather than who we are on the outside. Some of them, I think, are thinking, well this is sort of an opportunity to meet people they wouldn’t otherwise get to meet. It makes sense from their perspective, but boy is that not how I think about prison.”