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Songs from the Hole is an innovative documentary/visual album composed by JJ’88, a musician incarcerated at 15 and serving a life sentence.Told through first-person narration and lyrical journal entries, the film explores his identity and untangles the complex emotions stemming from his crime and the loss of his brother.

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00:00I've been thinking about freedom since the day I got locked up when I was 15.

00:08In here, death always feels feminine.

00:12I'd lay on the floor, make beats on my chest.

00:16The way I manufacture hope is by writing music.

00:23Telling the story is like reliving the trauma.

00:27But, at some point, you have to choose your own healing.

00:47It's hard to acknowledge the worst thing you've ever done in your life.

00:52April 16th, the day I took a life.

00:57Three days later, my brother was burned.

01:03Wait a minute, look at this one.

01:05Aww.

01:06More than anything in my life.

01:08I just wanted to be forgiven.

01:10Prison does not have space for forgiveness.

01:13It is seen as a weakness.

01:15They want to mount you on the wall.

01:17I promise you I'm going to make it to you.

01:19I know, son.

01:20I promise you.

01:20Every time you see James and you act to leave, it's like the casket is closing.

01:35Healing can never be found in someone else's punishment.

01:38I'm constantly thinking about the son that I lost.

01:40I'm constantly thinking about the son that I lost in the system.

01:43It's love, cause I'm dead to the world.

01:45Dead to my homies and my girl.

01:47I ain't got a letter in a minute.

01:48I was only 15.

01:49When the dick fell up in and I've been in it for a minute.

01:51I was nigga trying to finish out strong.

01:52I am doing some good in this world.

01:55I can see clearly how my heart is impacting people.

01:58But when I have clarity, I see it.

02:05Being in a box by yourself, that isolation can be crushing sometimes.

02:10But when God steps in, it becomes something different.

02:15That's what was happening in the hole.

02:22That's what was happening in the hole.

02:23That's what was happening in the hole.

02:24This for me.

02:49That's what we'reísting up.

Songs From The Hole | Official Trailer - Netflix

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