Bobby Shmurda is speaking out from behind bars.

The rapper was arrested more than a year ago with a number of charges against him, including reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon. In an interview with XXL on Friday, Shmurda explained how he's hanging in there at correctional facility Rikers Island.

"Right now they got me in this little kid building, they got me with little 18 to 21s," he said. "It's annoying but I'll be out of the building in August when I'm 22, but right now it's just a bunch of little kids. Ain't really no problems, everyone shows love."

Shmurda's trial has been postponed a number of times. According to the rapper, this is apparently to make sure he'll be afraid of what's coming up.

"I don't know if they think they're scaring me, but they're not scaring me," he said. "They probably got stuff on a couple people in this case but there are a lot of innocent people in this case too. So they just grabbed us and they're holding us and I guess they want us to just take a number. They were trying to scare us because my co-defendants just blew but that's not scaring me."

The rapper was also asked about being targeted by the police. He's not exactly sure why this would happen, but he's not happy about it.

"They've been doing this since day one, since right before I blew up," Shmurda said. "Right before I got signed, about a month before, I got locked up. I was in the house, it was about 10 of us in the house and they had caught a gun in the house. They singled me out of everybody, let everybody go from booking and just put everything on me. I'm like, me? For what? That's just hate."

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