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On the Freeing of Louisiana Rapper, McKinley 'Mac' Phipps and the Decades of Stolen Genius

On the Freeing of Louisiana Rapper, McKinley 'Mac' Phipps and the Decades of Stolen Genius

Prolific Louisiana rapper, McKinley "Mac" Phipps, was recently paroled after serving 21 years in prison for a murder he maintained being innocent of committing

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McKinley ‘Mac’ Phipps; Image via ABC News

Growing up as a hip-hop head in south Louisiana, I was an avid listener of artists from homegrown super-label, No Limit Records. My teenage years were filled with classic rap albums from the likes of Nas, Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, Wu-Tang Clan, Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z and many other coastal emcees, but when No Limit expl…

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