Louder Than A Riot

Rhyme and punishment go hand in hand in America. NPR explores the interconnected rise of hip-hop and mass incarceration.

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'I Want Us To Dream A Little Bigger': Noname And Mariame Kaba On Art And Abolition
NPR - Sidney Madden , Sam Leeds , Rodney Carmichael
In the shadow of police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and in the midst of a global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement caught a tidal wave of momentum in 2020. There were hashtags,...
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Parole
Caught In The System
NPR - Sidney Madden , Rodney Carmichael
Lisa P is from Crenshaw. She knows all its avenues, all its corners. She has it all mapped out in her head, what it means to move from one block to the next. She's 57 years old, and grew up running these...
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Philadelphia
Becoming Isis Tha Saviour
NPR - Chiquita Paschal
Chiquita Paschal is an editor for Louder Than A Riot, a new podcast from NPR Music that investigates the interconnected rise of hip-hop and mass incarceration in America. One in every four Black millennials...
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Montage Of A Dream Deferred
NPR - Sidney Madden , Rodney Carmichael
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. The drive from...
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My Brother's Keeper: Bobby Shmurda (Pt 3)
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"It's bulls***," Bobby Shmurda says, sitting in a room at Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, as he reflects on the 2014 conspiracy charges that ultimately landed him here. "They put a bunch...