Born McKinley J. Phipps on July 30th, 1977.Mac was raised around the Derbigny section of Uptown New Orleans. Started rapping at the age of 7, off of a dare of a friend. Discovered by "The Ninja Crew", which consisted of legendary New Orleans producer & rapper's Mannie Fresh, Sporty T. & Gregory D. Released his 1st album in 1989 at the age of 11, entitlted "Lyrical Midget", whilst at the time billing himself as 'Lil Mac'. In 1993, him & a few friends from around the city got together & formed the New Orleans local supergroup, "The Psychoward". A few year's later, he was signed to Master P's No Limit Records at the age of 19. After being on almost every other No Limit recording artist's album's, his 1st worldwide album, entitled Shell Shocked, was finally slated for release on July 21st of 1998. A year & 2 month's later, his No Limit sophomore album was released, World World War III.
Unfortunately, just when thing's were getting brighter for the young artist, things went awry on February 22nd of 2000. Prior to hosting a concert self-promoting his World War III album, in St Tammany Parish, an altercation errupted having to do with the rapper's entourage and a disgruntled fan, stemming from problems incited from a previous concert. A fight broke out and 19 year old Barron Victor Jr., the cousin of the disgruntled fan, tried to play the part of peacemaker, but was fatally shot in the shoulder, allegdedly by the rapper Mac when he supposedly popped out of nowhere and shot the child and fled back to his Baton Rouge residence without any resistance from the abundant number of witnesses in fleeing the scene of the crime. Mac's story goes that when he heard gunshot's break out, he wielded his 9mm and went directly to where his mom was to check on her safety. Booked with negligent manslaughter, he finally had his day in court in September of 2001 and was sentenced a day after the most infamous date in history "September 11th". Regardless of a taped confession given by an in-law of Mac, which was thrown out by the court & regardless of the fact that the murder weapon was never found, Mac (22 year's old at this time) was sentenced to 30 years. With little evidence to convict him, his rap moniker "The Camouflage Assassin", and spotlighted lyrics from a few of his far few negative songs were enough to wrongly convince the jury to view this young man as a threat to society. Mac will be eligible for parole in 2010, if the help of appeals don't pan out for him beforehand.
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