21 Years and 1 Day: Mac Phipps (Exclusive)

Louder Than A Riot

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🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

After 21 years in prison, Mac Phipps has been recommended for clemency, which could mean early release. As we reported in our first season, Mac was convicted in 2001 of manslaughter, for a crime he has always said he did not commit. Now, we follow the former No Limit rapper as he navigates the clemency process — and for the first time, we get to talk with Mac himself. What does justice mean after he's spent half his life in prison? And does he plan to ever return to the stage?

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0:00.0	Heads up before we begin.
0:02.3	This podcast is explicit.
0:04.3	Hey y'all, it's Rodney.
0:06.3	And Sydney.
0:07.3	And we're back for a special episode of Loud or Then a Riot to catch you up on the case
0:11.2	of McKinley Mac Fibs, one of the artists we profile in season one of our show, who
0:16.2	spent the last 21 years incarcerated.
0:19.7	Mac was an artist on the no limit label when he was convicted of manslaughter and connection
0:23.8	to a nightclub shooting back in 2000.
0:26.4	The crime he and many others say he didn't commit.
0:30.4	But you got to know Mac's story in order to understand why his conviction was so tragic.
0:35.6	And it all starts with Mac as a hip hop prodigy growing up in New Orleans.
0:42.4	He was always like the best free style in the city.
0:52.1	Mac was kind of like New Orleans version of Nies.
0:55.9	His flow, the intelligence that he had behind his right.
0:59.1	You know what I'm saying?
1:00.1	Like, it was very thoughtful, it was very profound.
1:03.1	And the next thing we know, Mac get inside of no limit.
1:09.5	Mac was probably one of the best artists ever came to no limit.
1:21.5	He was talking about murder, murder, kill, kill.
1:25.2	Like do like what you're doing.
1:27.0	We did a few shows at the club where Sadie's head is getting later in the night.
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