mess hall music... PRISON music!!!!!!!!! hardest tracks about lockdown!!!!

stay out of prison!!!!!!

for real!!!!!! its a cattle drive in that bitch!!!!!!!

hip hop has tons of classic joints that touch on life on the inside!!!!!!!! razor blade gum lines and see through TV's!!!!! the life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


classic g rap... rikers island!!!!!!!!!!!


one of my favorite joints off OB4CL 2... crime epic, amazing storytelling and the atmosphere is perfect!!!! beat sounds paranoid as hell, tooth brush shank music!!!!!!! classic!!!!!!!!!


one of the hardest joints from one of the hardest albums to drop in the y2k!!!! this joint is gutter, sneaking cigs in the kitchen type shit!!!!!!!! ruck is a jail nigga for real!!!!!!!!!!!


classic joint.. fuck the police!!!!! yall heard it!!!!!!!!


classic flip classic song!!!!!!!! g raps verse on is why hes one of the greatest!!!!! impossible blend of lyricism and storytelling... theres a nigga smoking weed in his cell thinking about this joint right!!!!!!!!


beanie is a jail bird, he knows the system, he paints an ugly picture on this jawn!!!!!! one of the hardest songs of all time, also one of the realest... this joint is a hair raiser...incredible, tracks like this is what make beanie one of the hardest emcees to ever do it!!!!!!! you can smell the the prison food if you listen close enough!!!!!!!

theres a ton of them out there, this is a good start!!!!!!!!!

Yeah the first song that popped up in my head was the Beans track...lol @ you can smell the prison food LOL

I don't know much about jail beside what I hear in hip hop and from movies like Ricochet, Tango & Cash, The Last Boyscout, Malcolm X. Those are some dope songs angry!, some good music has come from the lockdown experience.


P.E.s Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos was one of the first hip hop videos I ever saw, my father still has the world premire of it from MTV on VHS. The video is as visual & cinematic as the song, featuring Stet, EPMD, Audio Two, Eric B and more golden era artists.
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Premonitions Of A Black Prisoner, a chilling story about commiting suicide in jail by K-Solo, The Fugutive.


Who Killed Jane by EPMD from their 1992 classic, PMD gets locked up in the song.

^crazy how those last 3 songs all use the same drum sample!

She tellin' me "Ooh, what we gon' do?" Get out the county, my celly was yellin' so loudly/ The sky was so cloudy when I just made bail and I'm outtie/ But daddy was doped up, loc'd up on the police/ 138 snub and a drugged out thug, hopin' to detox, instillin' no love to be locked down/ Lookin' down these hilltops, drink Hennessey, feelin' my tears drop/ We're not cryin' cause we're dyin'/ We're cryin' we don't know who's next, but fear not/ Political prisoners and lil' niggas, ya'll all scared nigs/ Somebody start a riot, killas I came up with and dealers I know who stay quiet/ No letters, but big boxes, pictures of her naked, she's a fox/ Hope you like it/ Pass it around and get some contraband and set up your shop/ Set up your shop/ Set up your shop/ Set up your shop (Sellin' weed brownies and hooch) Clock some money, keep your cock to yourself, watch out for the haters, there's my lock down love/ Papa'll tell/ Papa'll tell/ Two Double-8 that Double-8 Zero/ We low key thuggin' Lil' Gambino, you know

not going back!!



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and its songs like this that give bone thugs that tight connection with their fans. they make songs for the people like this to reach out which seperates them from other acts only concerned with talking about themselves. just like Pac did it!


and bizzy spazzes out on this shit. he talks about prison alot in his rhymes, bizzy comes from all angles with pure expression which is why so many people get lost in the niggas music because he speaks from the heart, about shit that real people can relate to

(this is the remix)

Not really a full jail track but still ill imagery on this part -






On Doomsday!
Ever since the womb ‘til I'm back where my brother went
That's what my tomb will say
Right above my government, Doom will lay
Either unmarked or engraved, hey, who's to say?
I wrote this one in B.C. D.C. O-section
If you don't believe me, go get bagged and check then
Cell number 17, up under the top bunk
I say this not to be mean, wish bad luck or pop junk
Pop the trunk on See-Cipher-Punk, leave him left scraped
God forbid, if there ain't no escape, blame MF tape
Definition "super-villain": a killer who love children
One who is well-skilled in destruction, as well as building
While Sidney Sheldon teaches the trife to be trifer
I'm trading science fiction with my man the live lifer
A pied piper holler a rhyme, a dollar and a dime
Do his thing, ring around the white collar crime
Get out my face, askin' ‘bout my case, need toothpaste
Fresher mint, monkey-style nigga get [?dentadent?]
And dope fiends still in they teens, shook niggas turn witness
Real mens mind their own business
That's the difference between sissy-pissy rappers that's double-dutch
How come I hold the microphone double-clutch
C.O.'s make rounds, never have ‘ox found
On shakedown, lock-down, wet dreams of Fox' Brown
On Doomsday!

CLASSIC!!!!!!!


cant sleep on the ghost... he always shows love to the forgotten ones!!!!!!!!!


one of my favorite tracks of 2010... this joint got so much heart, if you got a pulse you should be able to feel this record!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!


r.i.p. pimp!!!!! beans and pimp 2 of the realest!!!!!!!!!!!!


CLASSIC!!!!! beans verse is all time great... dead ass!!!!!!!!! rae spazzed on cleanup!!!!!!!!!!!

"see when you stressed out, you can age fast in here
i done seen weak niggas not last a year" .....thats real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dont forget that Havoc joint at P
that was ill

but man theres alot of these all over the place its gona take a while to remember them all

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^more polished

in the early 90s there was a scared straight program type rap group called the lifers group made out of all inmates doing real time. they put out an e.p. & an album. rahway state prison in jersey was the location.

from wiki:
The prison served as the filming location for the 1978 Academy Award winning documentary Scared Straight! The prison is also the birthplace of the Lifers' Group, in which prison inmates participate in a government-sponsored rap music program, recording such songs as "The Real Deal" and "Belly of the Beast" to discourage children from becoming criminals.

shit was as real as prison rap can get.

also there was a group on rap-a-lot in 'bout 91 or 92 called the convicts. big mike and 3-2 were the members and that whole album is on some criminal/jail house shit. big mike took willie dees place in the geto boys when he quit for an album or 2.

mf grimm made a damn album while he was locked down. they snuck a beat machine in there for him and everything. digital tears: e-mail from purgatory is the album he made while he was locked up, i think. x- raided just got busted for making his albums in prison.

and you cant leave out slick rick's behind bars. that was some real ass shit from a hip hop great.

Can't believe no one has mentioned "Up North Trip" by Mobb Deep and "Edge of Sanity" by G Rap.

don't forget Freddie Foxxx made an entire album dedicated to the prison poulation back in '94, "Crazy Like A Foxxx" - DOPE ISH!







Tragedy Khadafi, who spent alot of his life in jail (and is incarcerated at the moment), spazzed one of the realest songs ever recorded.