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Finally Free, Rapper Mac Phipps Works Through 'Culture Shock' After 21 Years In Prison
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The gold-selling former No Limit artist is working out what life looks like after spending half of it locked up for a killing someone else confessed to.
After 21 years of incarceration and painstaking efforts to fight his contentious conviction, it was a whirlwind when rapper McKinley “Mac” Phipps Jr. was granted early release in June and walked out the door just a few hours later. He was greeted by his wife, stepdaughters and manager, and they headed straight for a New Orleans old-school classic he’d been craving: shrimp at Dunbar’s. That night, his friends, parents, siblings and extended family all came together to welcome him at a hotel. “It was still all surreal at that point,” he said. He got home at 8:45, just in time for the 9 p.m. curfew mandated by his parole.More Related News