Death row inmate collaborates with UNC professor on rap album

For most musicians, a recording studio consists of sound-proofed walls and mixing boards. For Alim Braxton, however, it consists of concrete walls and a prison-issued phone. Braxton, who performs as Rrome Alone, has spent more than thirty years on North Carolina’s death row after murdering three people. Through a long-distance collaboration with a UNC professor and a New York producer, his music made its way beyond the prison walls.

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