Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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, ...

McKinley “Mac” Phipps Jr. returned home last June, and within a few months he started to ease back into the public eye. By the beginning of fall, the New Orleans-born rapper had released a new single, ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rapper McKinley “Mac” Phipps has been released from prison after being granted parole in the case of a 2001 shooting at a south Louisiana nightclub. The Times-Picayune/The New ...

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 ...

Louisiana prosecutors sentenced McKinley "Mac" Phipps, a New Orleans-born rapper who released material on Master P's famed No Limit Records, to 30 years in prison for allegedly killing a young ...

McKinley “Mac” Phipps Jr. wasn’t even 13 when he released his first album, under the name Lil Mac. Born in 1977, Phipps grew up with parents that were painters and music lovers, and his uncle ...

*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 ...