Being black in America means learning to do the most with limited resources.
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In 2017, Jordan Peele transformed a $4.5 million budget into a $255 million phenomenon, our ancestors somehow survived the brutality of slavery on neckbones, and entrails and weโre still struggling to understand how Country Grammar ever became a thing.
But when melanin magic courses through your veins, ingenuity knows no boundsโeven when youโre confined to prison. As evidenced by this video that surfaced on World Star Hip-Hop, in which an inmate didnโt let his prison sentence deter him from being fresh as hell if the feds watching.
Most would deem an idle mind โThe Devilโs Playground.โ But in an outfit that could best be described as vintage Sean John chic, an unnamed inmate dripping in finesse brags on his conjugal visit-approved attireโwhich he presumably created himself.
โI made the logo out the mat, you feel me?โ he says, showcasing the bunk bed he stripped down for materials.
Iโm not sure if thereโs much of a market for Penitentiary Pradaโor what our Entertainment Staff Writer Tonja Renรฉe Stidhum called โFederal Prison FUBUโโbut despite his circumstances, itโs dope that the incarcerated individual in question isnโt allowing his talents to go to waste.
I see plenty more โprison industrial short setsโ (thank Staff Writer Michael Harriott for that one) in his future.
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