


“I think about that moment all the time,” Phipps Sr.
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Mac was asleep when his dad, Phipps Sr., came to get him to go to the show. He was scheduled to perform at a hole-in-the-wall venue, Club Mercedes in Slidell, Louisiana, about 90 minutes east of where he was living in Baton Rouge. The 22-year-old had just returned from doing shows in Mississippi and was about to embark on another tour. Phipps really didn’t want to perform on the night of Feb. The “down south Nas.” And the man who just got home after spending 21 years in prison for a murder Mac says he didn’t commit. This is the new normal for McKinley “Mac” Phipps, the gold-selling former No Limit Records artist. That session will get cut short to make sure he’s home for his mandatory 9 o’clock curfew. Then he’ll go to the studio to work on the music that will reintroduce him to the world. Afterward, Phipps will fiddle with the first iPhone he’s ever owned and try to coordinate picking up his teenage stepdaughters from summer school. In an hour, his manager is coming over to help fix a toilet and take him to his weekly meeting with his parole officer. Smooth’s 1994 album The Main Ingredient on his smart TV. The skinny 44-year-old with a salt-and-pepper goatee, gray sweatpants and a black T-shirt is listening to “I Get Physical” from Pete Rock and C.L. McKinley Phipps is sitting on the couch in the living room of his Uptown New Orleans house.
