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With A Long-Awaited Shot At Freedom, Mac Phipps Has His Eyes On The Future
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from NPR Music that investigates the interconnected rise of hip-hop and mass incarceration in America.
On Feb. 22, former No Limit Records artist McKinley Mac Phipps appeared before the Louisiana Board of Pardons and Committee on Parole. It was a chance he d been waiting on for two decades.
In 2001, Mac was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 30 years hard labor in connection to a shooting at Club Mercedes in Slidell, La. a crime he and many others say he didn t commit.
The path to this clemency hearing started in 2018 when Mac filed an application requesting a commutation of his sentence it was his second time filing after a 2016 clemency hearing request was denied. This January, he got an update: The hearing had been scheduled.
Rapper Mac Phipps recommended clemency after serving 20 years in prison
Family speaks to WDSU about the process moving forward, calling for criminal justice reform Share Updated: 9:18 AM CST Mar 4, 2021
Family speaks to WDSU about the process moving forward, calling for criminal justice reform Share Updated: 9:18 AM CST Mar 4, 2021
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Show Transcript SHAY: SHERMAN: IT IS SOMETHING MCKINLEY PHIPPS HAS BEEN WAITING FOR OVER 20 YEARS TO HEAR. THE PAROLE BOARD HAS RECOMMENDED CLEMENCY, MEANING HE HAS A CHANCE TO COME HOME EARLY AFTER SERVING NEARLY 20 YEARS OF A 30 YEAR SENTENCE. HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS TELL ME THERE’S STILL SOME WORK TO BE DONE, AND HOPE MCKINLEY’S CASE BECOMES A SPRINGBOARD FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM. I GUESS IT JUST FELT LIKE IT WAS TIME. IT JUST FELT LIKE IT WAS TIME. SHERMAN: SHIELA PHIPPS PAINTS PORTRAITS OF HER SON MCKINLEY, AND REFLECTS ON THE LAST TWENTY ONE YEARS OF HIS LIFE EACH ONE OF THOSE YEARS
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The performance at Club Mercedes was supposed to be just another gig for Mac Phipps, the No Limit rapper whose star was rising in Southern hip-hop around the turn of the new millennium. But it would be the last club date he d perform for at least two decades.
When we last heard from Mac in the previous episode, he was being interrogated by St. Tammany Sheriff s officers for a fatal shooting that occurred on the Club Mercedes dance floor.
Now, as the artist stands trial for the murder of Barron Victor Jr., prosecutors manipulate his lyrics in court to help ensure a guilty verdict.
Rapper Mac Phipps, After 20 Years In Prison, Is One Step Closer To Freedom
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