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| 6 Years In Jail Can't Stop New Orleans Rapper |
| By nola.com |
| Published: 08/09/2010 |
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BATON ROUGE -- In a discrete recording studio stashed near a busy highway, Michael “Mystikal” Tyler boils down six years of prison to three minutes. Brett Duke / The Times-Picayune"One dumb-ass decision hurt a slew of people," says Michael "Mystikal" Tyler of the incident that landed him in prison. As a new Mystikal recording titled “B---- I’m In Jail” booms from the speakers, he raps along to his rapid-fire, recorded bark of a voice and pantomimes the lyrics like a silent film on fast-forward: Hands cuffed behind his back. Sad farewell. Toiling in the prison garden. Parole denied. The song symbolizes where Tyler, rap’s Rip Van Winkle, finds himself in the summer of 2010: Drawing inspiration from an episode that might have ended his career, in an effort to rekindle it. Before his 2004 imprisonment for sexual battery, Tyler was New Orleans’ most formidable rap export. In the fall of 2000, his “Let’s Get Ready” replaced Madonna’s “Music” as the nation’s No. 1 album. He accumulated Grammy nominations, gold records and magazine covers. Mariah Carey traveled to New Orleans to shoot a video with him. He was the self-proclaimed Prince of the South. Read More. |
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