Prison Song

Prison Song is a 2001 United States prison musical film about a boy brought up in group homes with a gift of art. He does beautiful drawings and is an excellent photographer. He is accepted to college and at first his gets a full scholarship but then something changes and it is taken away. This is one of the many times our principle character is let down. He gives up on his dream and gets angry. He ends up picking a fight with one of the boys from the group home and kills him. He ends up in jail for a term of fifteen years to life.

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2001 - United States - College - Scholarship - Fight - Group home - Jail

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The movie is a musical relief to some people. Actors do break out into song or rap throughout the movie but fortunately this break from spoken word to words of rhythm and melody has a smooth transition.

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Song - Rap - Movie

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Rapper Q-Tip plays the principal character. Though he is quiet most of the time, the viewer will feel almost every emotion he does, even when his face is plain as a blank piece of paper. Through the film you grow to love the character and feel bad that things worked out the way they did. He is, like many black men {and like many men period) talented but locked in jail.

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Rapper - Q-Tip - Film

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A popular Hong Kong counterpart to Prison Song is Prison on Fire starring the Chinese martial artist and martial arts actor Chow Yun Fat.

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Hong Kong - Prison on Fire - Chinese - Martial artist - Chow Yun Fat

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