"Growing up," Mac says, "it was just understood in New Orleans you know that the Ku Klux Klan was in St. Tammany Parish across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, where Mac grew up. But he didn't like the venue, in a small town in St. The biggest hit he'd ever record was in the can, to be released in a little over a month. Mac, born McKinley Phipps Jr., was scheduled to head out on a six-month tour the next day. "It's hard to even pinpoint what my exact feeling was but I just know I wasn't feeling it." that night, but as his parents recall two decades later, he slept late and had a cloud over him all day. As a well-known wordsmith within his home state of Louisiana who was just beginning to teeter on mainstream fame as an artist on No Limit Records, Mac was supposed to perform a show at Club Mercedes in Slidell, La. On February 20, 2000, Mac didn't want to get out of bed. 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.
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