33 Years Later, Suave’s Long-Lost Mixtape
Suave
Futuro Media
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Suave has been named an Apple Podcasts Series Essential and to celebrate we wanted to bring to the main feed one of our exclusive Futuro+ bonus episodes.
In season one, Suave told host Julieta Martinelli about a mixtape he recorded inside his prison cell at SCI Graterford more than three decades ago. It remained a mystery lost to time… until today. In this episode, the making of Suave’s long-lost mixtape, the music that inspired it, and liner notes for his favorite 90’s hip-hop and reggaeton tracks. Plus, a discussion about the importance of music in prison and the artists Suave and Julieta love.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm super excited today because I have Swave all the way in Philly. What up, Swabin? |
| 0:05.7 | What's going on, people? I'm happy to be here. Happy to be dropping this bonus episode because |
| 0:11.5 | today is a very special day for me. We're about to get right to that. So today's episode is about |
| 0:17.1 | music. It's about hip-hop. It's about, you know, the value of music in prison. But before we get to that, as Swabin mentioned, we're recording this on April 7th, 2025. And today's a really, really special day for Swab. So tell us about it. |
| 0:31.7 | I mean, April 7, 1988 was the date that I got sentenced to life in prison. |
| 0:38.9 | I got found guilty April 6, but I was sentenced April 7th. |
| 0:43.7 | April 7th, 2025 is the day that my book come out all over the place from prison to the |
| 0:51.2 | Pulitzer. |
| 0:52.1 | And it's also the day that this podcast drop. |
| 0:55.5 | How amazing is that? |
| 0:57.1 | I mean, that's huge. |
| 0:58.6 | It seems like that day has like a really big significance for you. |
| 1:02.9 | Early on in season one, Swabit told me that when he was in prison, he recorded an album. |
| 1:09.9 | But we had no way to get our hands on it. And so for years, it's |
| 1:14.6 | been this little mystery between us. Like, are we ever going to get to hear this album that Suave |
| 1:19.8 | recorded? I told you when I came home, I couldn't find the tape. I ain't know one person |
| 1:27.0 | they had it. And then I go to my brother couldn't find the tape. I ain't know one person they had it. |
| 1:28.6 | And then I go to my brother's house and in the basement. |
| 1:32.1 | He got a whole shrine and I see my tape brand new packets. |
| 1:35.4 | I was like, yo, I need that. |
| 1:37.0 | I mean, he's like, yeah, I was holding it. |
| 1:38.7 | I forgot I had it. |
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