Q&A: Kenny Mack Talks About Prison, Hip-Hop and Being Blessed

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Can you take me through the last couple days of your life?
We got the press release, and it is a little weird. They seem pretty proud to have got somebody, but also to have got a rapper.
You knew the sentence, because you made a deal.
And you had to deal.
You don't feel like a victim of the system, though?
There were some really harsh comments on the Oregonian story, which the Mercury pointed out today.
You know, there's an old cliché about the best thing that can happen to a rapper's career is a prison term.
But that's how people are going to paint you, as a gangster rapper that deserves what you get.
How close is the Mikey Vegaz collaboration to being done?
When you come out, are you still gonna be Kenny Mack, or are you gonna be Nathan Burke, the guy who got sentenced?
I asked Cool Nutz if he wanted to comment on your situation, and it sounded like it was a shock to him.
So it became real for you yesterday?
So who's gonna put those records out while you're gone, as far as the nuts-and-bolts work?
You recorded one album in prison last time?
You don't plan on recording while you're there, then? I don't even know how that works.
Did you write a lot when you were in there last time?
You've been so active as of late, on bills and recording and guesting on albums, that it's got to be hard to leave that momentum behind.
Are you a religious guy?
So I'd imagine you've been doing some praying?
And you've still gotta learn all that stuff on your own.
The press release from the Oregon District Attorney's office:
Links:
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Kenny Mack on Twitter

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