Rap and Redemption on Death Row: Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose behind Bars

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
PART I
	Dear Mama, I Am a Murderer
	Five Letters
	Hip Hop Is My Life
	Abortion or Adoption
	Bigger Lover
	Being Biracial
	Hymn of H.I.M. (He Is Me)
	Jeannie
	Marriage in Paris
	Alhamdulillah!
	One Who Has Knowledge
	My Creative Process
	It Ain’t Just Me
	My Raleigh
	Descent into Crime
	We Had Just Kidnapped a Man
	Why Didn’t I Just Leave?
	Oh My God, What Have I Done?
	Meaner, Angrier, Deadlier
	Orientation at Caledonia
	Convict Carnival
	Two Codes
	Owning the Canteen
	The Bible Don’t Say Nothing about Pork
	Slave Labor
	Ready 4 War
	I Need a New Shank
	Toxic Masculinity
	I Had to Put Steel in Him
	Mercy on My Soul
PART II
	Welcome to Death Row
	Death Row Is No Life of Luxury
	Years in Segregation
	Islam and Black Nationalism
	Allahu Akbar!
	Living among the Innocent
	Unbreakable
	My First Recordings
	All about the Money
	Total Loss of Privacy
	Original Gangster
	A Gangster Trying to Be Muslim
	Finding a Producer
	He Doesn’t Deserve to Be Here
	One Life
	Dreamville and the Nightmare
	What’s the Point in Trying to Do Good?
	Hoops and Obstacles
	Why Rappers Should Listen to Country Music
	My Baby Sister Keisha
	Almost Like She Was in Paradise
	Waking Up in a Different Country
	White Cop
	Welcome Back to Unit One
	Due Process?
	Celebrating in the Hole
	Checking In at Central Prison
	Thirty-Seven Days in the Hole (Excerpt)
	The Alim Team
	Anger Is a Privilege That I Don’t Have
	The Zoom Solution
	A Major Milestone
	Jay-Z
	The Best Human Being I’ve Ever Met
	It Was a Good Day