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With ‘Live on Death Row,’ Rapper Rrome Alone Condemns the Death Penalty

“Every life hinges on poverty, gender and race,” he declares in the 2024 song, “and the pay of the attorney defending your case.”

Redemption Songs • 06.28.2026

Ear Hustle’s Antwan Banks Williams Goes Deep on ‘Like Father, Like Son’

Two years after the podcast’s co-creator’s dad died, he used hip-hop to celebrate their bond.

Redemption Songs • 06.21.2026

‘Forty-Four Hammers’ Is Part of a Rich History of Prison Work Songs

The call-and-response song was one of many that Black men sang as they toiled on Southern prison farms.

Redemption Songs • 06.14.2026

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