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Rap and redemption on death row : seeking justice and finding purpose behind bars / Alim Braxton and Mark Katz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Braxton, Alim, author.
- Katz, Mark, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Braxton, Alim.
- Death row inmates--North Carolina--Raleigh--Biography.
- Death row inmates.
- Rap musicians--North Carolina--Raleigh--Biography.
- Rap musicians.
- African American Muslims--North Carolina--Raleigh--Biography.
- African American Muslims.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2024]
- Contents:
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781469678733 (electronic bk.)
- 146967873X (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40032251560
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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