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The start of Ja Rule‘s two-year prison term for attempted gun possession has been delayed thanks to a Manhattan Supreme Court Judge who is letting the former Murder Inc. rapper stay free until June.

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Ja Rule’s lawyer, Stacey Richman, says that the rapper will use his extra time outside to finish his upcoming album and to settle a tax issue.

“We want to finish the album, and there’s also a tax issue,” said Richman. “Somebody, an accountant, had filed an incorrect form, and this is to correct what was done in the past,” Richman told the New York Post.

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