The Def Squad is once again whole.

Rapper Keith Murray was released from a Bridgeport, Connecticut, halfway house Monday (May 14) after three years' imprisonment. Murray — a member of the Def Squad with Redman and Erick Sermon — left the Maple Street House facility, where he was transferred earlier this year, and traveled to New York to be with his family, according to a source close to the rapper. The source said Murray was upbeat and eager to resume his life.

Murray, whose most recent album, It's a Beautiful Thing, was released in 1999 while he was incarcerated, has already begun to record again. He appears on "Wrong 4 Dat," a track on Redman's Malpractice, which is due in stores May 22.

Murray was convicted in 1996 of hitting a man in the head with a barstool during a 1995 nightclub brawl. He was released on bail while awaiting appeal but was sentenced to three years in prison in 1998. Murray fled authorities for a month but turned himself in in October 1998. Having always maintained his innocence, Murray filed a lawsuit for a new trial but dropped it earlier this year in exchange for having three months dropped from his sentence.