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    First the Big Time, Then Hard Time: Hip Hop Stars in Prison
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    According to an October 22 Associated Press story"Lil Wayne, 27, is also scheduled for trial in Arizona in March on felony drug possession and weapons charges stemming from a January 2008 arrest at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. He has pleaded not guilty in that case." Lil Wayne is certainly not the first hip hop star to land in the kind of criminal situation that permeates the lyrics and energy of the musical genre known as gangsta rap. Full Article at NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
    Lil Wayne, 27, is also scheduled for trial in Arizona in March on felony drug possession and weapons charges stemming from a January 2008 arrest at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. He has pleaded not guilty in that case.
    SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund 1 month ago
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First the Big Time, Then Hard Time: Hip Hop Stars in Prison
  1. What influenced my raps? Stick ups and killings. Kidnappings, project buildings, drug dealings.
    SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund 1 month ago
  2. It’s like [T.I.’s] absence made the hip-hop community’s heart grow fonder. People feel even more in love with him and his music while he was away.
    SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund 1 month ago
  3. Nobody goes to prison to better their career. Nobody wants to go away
    SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund 1 month ago
  4. Black men make up 41 percent of the inmates in federal, state and local prisons
    SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund 1 month ago
  5. I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It’s gonna be hard to tell me I’m slipping … how can we tell this n**** to stop when every … thing he do is successful? This n**** is making progress. He just went and talked to kids and that … was amazing.’ Feel me? So what am I doing wrong?
    SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund 1 month ago
  6. They need to just go on and build a hip-hop penitentiary.
    SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund 1 month ago
  7. This has led many people in Wayne’s inner circle to pressure him to cut back on abusing the drug.
    SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund 1 month ago

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