INMATES DROP DOPE RHYMES INSIDE PALMETTO STATE PRISON
Courtesy of our friends at The Quinton Report, here’s an as-yet-unidentified assemblage of imprisoned rappers in as-yet-unidentified S.C. Department of Corrections (SCDOC) facility performing “I’m On Fire.”
Billed as the “first ever music video in prison,” a link to the number was posted on the YouTube page of World StarTV Q.
The six-minute clip begins with one of the rappers noting “this is prison life right here.”
Several rappers then take turns rhyming as their compatriots provide them with a beat and a cappella bass line.
“I’m goin’ rise up, elevate, go straight to the top,” one of the rappers proclaims.
One of the performers’ S.C. Department of Corrections prison jumpsuit is clearly visible in the clip – beige with black “SCDC” letters emblazoned on the back. A sheet also appears to have been placed over the window of the cell in which the video was taken.
Take a listen …
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Wow … not bad.
One online critic was impressed, saying the song was “harder than 75 percent of sh*t that’s out right now.”
As impressive as the skills demonstrated on this video may be, it’s obvious this clip was shot on a smuggled cell phone – a growing problem within South Carolina’s correctional system. And obviously until the rappers in question are identified, there’s no way of knowing whether they are hardened criminals who deserved to lose their liberties (including the right to post rap videos on the internet) … or victims of America’s failed “War on Drugs.”
Stay tuned … we’ll do our best to find out …
UPDATE: Looks like we’re not the only one looking to identify the inmates in question. According to an update from The Quinton Report, the SCDC has issued a statement saying it is “in the process of investigating the video” and that “once the investigation is complete, inmates involved will be appropriately charged.”
42 comments
Wow, I was expecting the Springsteen version. My bad.
Those are some fine young men there. Too bad the man is holding them down. Otherwise, they would be outstanding and productive American citizens.
Four likes so far. REALLY! If they were in suit and tie headed to a job, you wouldn’t give them a second look.
Precisely!
Sarcasm. How does it work?
Not sarcasm, but irony.
Irony: an incongruity, or contrast, between what the expectations of a situation are and what is “REALLY” the case.
Irony, Bible Thumper? What do *you* know about *irony*?
I can paste from Wikipedia, but someone has to explain to me what the words mean. That’s sarcasm!
….but I like you!
That’s irony.
If you think k that’s irony, try this:
I not only believe in God, but I am a Christian.
Good. I am so opinionated that I probably have more difficulty getting along with others in church than you. “Irony”
I post more scripture than you – *irony*
Church is wherever I am… and I don’t give a good goddamn what people think of me in a “church building” or on any one of the internets. – *irony*
I am not a man in a box – *irony*
Gotcha, Good for you. Goodnight
Four likes so far. REALLY! If they were in suit and tie headed to a job, you wouldn’t give them a second look.
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you have a point there – we should give more air time to boring cubicle monkeys.
Koreans immigrants often work very hard. They make great sacrifices for their children’s education. They can’t rap. B O R I N G…
Yeah… Buddhists are industrious, unlike bullshit Christians.
A prison video without anal sex? I call bullshit.
World start hip hop can provide hours of entertainment. It’s the modern day negro task master exploiting his own.
Hmm…Convicts doing Rap music…and FITS is $#!**ing all over himself…
How smart can this MoFo be????
On a scale of GrandTango to Einstein, probably somewhere around Thomas Edison.
Now that is a jab to add to the arsenal!
Protip: Attempt to start a rap career before you end up in jail. It is very hard to get a record deal when you have to talk to your agent through a speaker in a plexiglass window.
But how else does one acquire street cred?
don’t get caught – it worked for me!
HR from Bad Brains recorded the song Sacred Love over the phone from prison back in 86. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnswpHvAqLc
If your trying to identify them ask T-Rav.
They should be locked up for that “song”, it’s awful
Bring back chain gangs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRyDlVOE86U
Ok, first mistake is calling it a “music” video.
Secondly, it isn’t hard to see why they are in there. Culture, sometimes it just sucks.
Someone needs to clean that place up… a little soap, a little water, some new paint…
Maybe put that the residents list of chores?
Just what I was thinking. A little structure and discipline, without making it into a pea farm.
That’s asking a lot of a large portion of the population. A friend of mine worked in health care at Alvin Glenn and said many lack the most basic of personal hygiene habits. Requiring them to tidy up their cinderblock abode might be out of the question.
The way I look at it, there may be people in there who don’t really belong there.. and they should be able to get a break on parole by showing an interest in becoming more disciplined, and for initiative and ambition… and given the chance. It’s in everyone’s best interest. Being cold and calculated with eye for an eye – or worse, just leads to more of the same. Be practical, but merciful, is my motto.
I spent 4 years in a military academy and 4 years in the army. I learned a little about it, but it didn’t stick with me. I’m a slob. Some of it has to be rebellion and the lack of the “look at me, and make me relevant so I can demand respect” gene.
You know how it is.. programming is discipline of the mind, not of scrubbing and painting.
Prison Life… all incarcerated up in this bitch shuckuh.
The is the very type of gang/thug/prison glorification that little disenfranchised 8 to 12 year olds look up to. There is no place in popular culture for this type of buffoonery. Let’s face it though, the prison system is little more than “justice” for cash enterprise. As long as these guys aren’t assaulting guards and other employees, they are largely allowed to run amok. It’s only when things like this are leaked do the officials have to feign interest in policy enforcement.
Where’s the proof that this was filmed inside a SCDOC prison? The SCDOC jumpsuits? They’ve all got ’em — mostly as birthday presents from their fathers whose shopping options are obviously limited what with the three strikes law. The bars over the windows? Most modern housing projects equip their windows with bars to miminze the opportunities for rape and pillage, which remain abundant and frequently exercised. Regardless – let these guys rap. It’s the only legal activity they’re worth a damn at since the advent of the automated cotton picker.
Here is something to be proud of from South Carolina E.RILLA- I’M GONE FT. CORBETT (Official Video): http://youtu.be/MLzYZkOlQzg
Think about how much Head Start, WIC, EBT, Section 8, etc etc etc it took to grow these savages……
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Hit me up, and check out World Stars post. I’m the original one who posted the video, and have all the details.