• Larry Hoover has renounced his former gang, Gangster Disciples.
• He is currently serving a life sentence in a federal supermax prison in Colorado.
• Kanye West and Drake performed at a fundraiser event to support Hoover’s release from prison.

Larry Hoover, the former gang leader who has been supported by Kanye West and Drake, has renounced his old gang, Gangster Disciples.

Hoover, who is presently serving a life term in a federal supermax prison in Colorado, tried unsuccessfully to have his sentence reduced last year under the First Step Act, a statute that Donald Trump signed into effect in 2018.

He is currently making another attempt to commute his federal life sentence, nevertheless.

In a pair of letters addressed to a US District Judge and the public, Hoover claimed that he is “no longer the Larry Hoover people sometimes talk about, or he who is written about in the papers, or the crime figure described by the government”.

He claimed he was “anecdotally” aware that “some misguided people” had used him as a symbol, adding that he wished “this were not so”.

“Regardless, these people are apart from me and do what they do with zero encouragement or direction from me,” he wrote. “To be clear, if I had any ability to influence them, I’d ask that they’d forget me and forsake the gang life forever.”

He wrote that he “was lost in an enduring pattern of criminality those many years ago”, during his period of criminality, adding that he had “long since renounced my association with any and all criminal organisations and their membership”.

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“I am no longer a member, leader, or even an elder statesman of the Gangster Disciples,” Hoover wrote. “I want nothing to do with it now and forever.”

Federal prosecutors assert that Hoover has continued to direct gang activity in some way while incarcerated and that, if freed, he will try to retake control of the gang.

US Attorney John Lausch, the chief federal prosecutor in Chicago, informed the judge in July 2020 that any reduction in Hoover’s sentence would constitute a “miscarriage of justice.”

Hoover is currently serving six life sentences for a variety of offences, including as extortion, murder, and conspiracy.

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In an effort to support Hoover’s release from prison, Kanye West and Drake performed at a fundraiser event in Los Angeles in December.

“Larry Hoover brought me and Drake together. That man created peace. Larry Hoover called that from the prison, and everybody was happy,” West later said.