CityBeat: Lil Spank Booty rocks the cell
You might have thought I was just being lazy by not blogging lately when really I’ve been busy writing baller-ass shit like this and also losing my fucking mind.
This is the best article I’ve ever written. After you read the full article here, you can send mail to Lil Spank Booty here:
Maurice League
J59282
Salinas Valley State Prison
Fac. B2-218 / PO Box 1050
Soledad, CA 93960
A grainy YouTube video shows a cell in Salinas Valley State Prison in Monterey County. Maurice League, a hardened street rapper with braided hair and tattoos covering much of his body, sits on the bottom bunk, no mattress.
League, aka Lil Spank Booty, tiredly wipes his face and shakes his head. In his right hand is a metal utensil, in his left a red plastic cup. He puts his hands down to the hard bed surface to bang out a beat, using the utensil as a cymbal, the cup as a snare and his left palm as a kick. Then, he spits a heartbreaking verse about the trials of incarceration. Abandonment from loved ones. “Zombied-out” inmates on prescription drugs. Abusive corrections officers. Suicide.
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