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During our time at any prison we need inmates to help share the talents with us. more often than not, rap is the artistic expression of choice. ♪ pull the trigger suddenly ♪ locked up, locked up ♪ thinking about some things that never change ♪ ♪ my game takes flight ♪ love is just a feeling but pain is life ♪ ♪ all the bad at the scene i'm trying to make it right ♪ >> with so many rappers to choose from, it's difficult to decide who makes the cut. ♪ i got a chip on my shoulder now the [ bleep ], went from a dhoip a [ bleep ] boulder ♪ >> i get solicited a lot by the inmat...

But that was not his choice. he chose to align himself with the inmates. he completely identified as an inmate. >> but rapatz recognized his past would always make his safety in prison a gamble. >> all it takes is one inmate trying to get his bones, what we call stripes. he might come and try and hit me on the line somewhere. that's a chance i was willing to take, you know? i wanted to do a waiver. i wanted to be on the line. and you know whatever happened happened, you know? to me it sucks. i'm not going to lie. it sucks. it ain't no good. here's the paperwork. i think back and say, what did ...

♪ [ .32 with a clip ♪ >> fisher's cellmate is 20-year-old dinell thompson. better known here as duker. thompson was at maricopa appealing two murder kwishgzs convictions that could land him in prison for at least 32 years. >> keep the noise down over there. >> rap has helped the two men bridge their generation gap. >> trying to film [ bleep ]. >> the cellies share one other thing in common. they're both members of the crips street gang. >> but they were at very different stages in their life. cousin ice was no longer in love with the lifestyle. >> i haven't actually went out gang-banging, ...

And that's something titus fisher was determined not to see happen to his own children. he moved his family from california to arizona to help them avoid a future of gang-banging. >> i've seen my son getting ready to start when he was only 14. so, i hurried up and got him out of there. that's another reason i moved out here. when we moved out here, i said, you can be whatever you want to be. you know what i mean? now he's straight-as. he hasn't got a "b" in, like, three years. he's straight-as. on the football team. star football player. so, he's on his way to do something. you know what i mea...

Suffer and lose a son, you know? you know, it was pretty amazing. i mean, i had a lot of people, they spoke at the hearing. >> you ket a whoa new perspective. a chance outside of prison. >> i get my sentence cut in half when i don't deserve it. i wasn't doing anything to better myself in prison. just because i gave back all that time, you know, i'm still a convict now. and this is still my world until i get out. so, i mean, it was tough to balance that, to you know, try to do good and better myself and, you know, hope for parole or something. but at the same time, you know, stay true to how i ...