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Ja Rule jail (hip)-hopping

ALBANY — Ja Rule will be a free man in the Big Apple in July when he’s released from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, the feds said yesterday.

The 36-year-old rapper was released last week from an upstate prison after serving most of a two-year sentence for illegal gun possession, and went straight into federal custody in a tax-evasion case. He’s due out July 28.