As the stage lit up, a crowd of men dragged a tall, slender figure completely clad in a jumpsuit. The figure tussled with the men, quickly ripping off the suit and unveiling a man decked out in a ...

Mac Phipps wanted to stick out like a sore thumb on No Limit Records. A gifted lyricist, the New Orleans-born rapper says he saw an opportunity to marry his lyrical style with the raw, street sound No ...

New Orleans native rapper McKinley "Mac" Phipps and his wife Angelique won an Emmy Award last week for their short film, "Rap Trap: Hip Hop on Trial." It won an Emmy for Outstanding Arts, Culture and ...

An attorney for Mac Phipps, a rapper who was convicted in a fatal Slidell nightclub shooting, says 22nd Judicial District Attorney Warren Montgomery has no plans to recuse his office from the case.

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Mac Phipps, the New Orleans-area rapper who has been in prison since being convicted on charges of manslaughter in 2001, was recommended for clemency this week. The recommendation for immediate parole ...

Rodney Carmichael and Sidney Madden are the hosts of Louder Than A Riot, a new podcast from NPR Music that investigates the interconnected rise of hip-hop and mass incarceration in America. On Feb. 22 ...

*I’m telling you, if you’re about that life, you might want to look at the case of rapper Mac Phillips, who was convicted of the 2001 murder of a concertgoer and is serving 30 years in prison as a ...

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