Death row inmate collaborates with UNC professor on rap album

Alim Braxton, known on music platforms as “Rrome Alone,” has spent over 30 years on death row at Central Prison in Raleigh. (Photo courtesy Alim Braxton)

 

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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  1. He’s a writer… He’s a musician… it has been amazing to watch him grow into The man he is now. Behind bars, he turned his life around through his belief in God. And with that belief, God has shown him the way to live his dreams

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