Los Angeles ( CNN ) -- Hip-hop artist Soulja Boy faces a felony weapons charge after police say he was carrying a loaded gun in Los Angeles Wednesday . The 23-year-old rapper , whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way , was arrested after a Los Angeles police officer pulled over a car in which he was a passenger , police spokeswoman Rosario Herrera told CNN . Soulja Boy was booked into a San Fernando Valley jail , but freed after posting a $ 35,000 bond Wednesday afternoon , according to jail records . The traffic stop happened on a residential street in the Granada Hills area of the San Fernando Valley at 4 a.m. , Herrera said . He was arrested on felony weapons and drug charges during a traffic stop on a Georgia interstate in October 2011 . Police said they found a `` felony amount '' of marijuana and firearms in his rented SUV . The local district attorney in Carroll County , Georgia , declined to prosecute the case because federal prosecutors took it over , according to a spokesman for the district attorney . The U.S. attorney 's office in Atlanta did not immediately respond to a CNN question about the status of the case . Rapper Young Jeezy arrested ... again .
NEW : Soulja Boy was freed after posting $ 35,000 bond Wednesday afternoon . Los Angeles police stopped a car Soulja Boy was riding in early Wednesday . He was arrested on weapons and drug charges in Georgia in 2011 .