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During our time at any prison, we meet inmates who want to share their talents with us. more often than not, rap is the artistic expression of choice. ♪ held my own gun to me ♪ pull the trigger suddenly ♪ locked 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 >> i get solicited a lot by the inmates to hear their raps that they'...

Trial on a charge of firearm possession by an ex-felon. >> toilet, write on the toilet, make your own beats. you know what i mean? ♪ >> fisher's cellmate is 20-year-old dinell thompson. better known here as duker loke. thompson was at maricopa appealing 2 murder 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. >> we're 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 t...

>> just about every inmate story we tell on "lockup" resolves around the three rs, respect, reputation and revenge. at indiana state prison, we met one inmate whose story revolved around his search for all three. >> i don't know what the hell is blinking. battery must be going dead. >> during our shoot at indiana state prison, officials allowed us to give select inmates handheld cameras to express personal thoughts in the privacy of their cells. >> my name is cephis pasco. c-e-p-h-i-s p-a-s-c-o. i am a convict at the indiana state prison. >> we learned a lot from them, including the importance...

Convict, he was basically saying his crimes were not against a child or of a sexual nature against a woman and he lives by the convict, which in prison is a big deal. >> the laws of the convict is, you don't respect others, you don't steal, you pay your debts, you can never become a punk or a bitch. i've done that. my reputation is clean. >> but pasco's status as a convict was threatened by another distinction in prison's complicated social structure. >> are those animals out so we can go eat? feeding time at the zoo. >> we were interviewing cephis at his cell. and he was anxiously awaiting th...

Made the accusation was angling for a transfer to another prison. and holloman was cleared. but holloman has had his share of trouble. he was originally sentenced to 30 years for assault and attempted robbery, after he stabbed a man during a street fight. >> i was charged with first-degree assault which i thought really wasn't that serious. i thought, oh, it's not murder, then maybe he wasn't too bad. it turns out that i stabbed him in his lung and he bled out, like, twice. had to go through a couple surgeries. and i got the attempted robbery because i was going through his pockets. that's whe...