AP - US prosecutors have dropped murder charges against rapper Gucci Mane, who had been accused in the shooting of another rapper in May.
Prosecutors said they did not have enough evidence to try Mane over the slaying of Henry Lee Clark III, a rapper from Macon, Georgia.
Mane said he shot Clark in self-defence when Clark and four other men attacked him.
Mane is in jail in Atlanta, Georgia, after pleading no contest to assaulting promoter Troy Buffor with a pool cue in June.
He was sentenced to six months and will remain on probation for six-and-a-half years. He also agreed to pay medical bills of about $US3,000 ($A4,102).
Lawyer Manny Arora said he should be released in January.
Mane, whose real name is Radric Davis, released his debut album, Trap House, in May.
On the day of the release, he posted $US100,000 ($A136,761) bond in the murder case.
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