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Change Your Mindset Change Your Life - with Garrain Jones | Wake the Fake Up EP 31

Wake The Fake Up

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The Importance of Context in Prison

"I didn't even realize that all of the stillness, see in prison all you have is your mind and your heart. So it's like you can do way more things inside of thestillness than the busy monotonous of life," he says. "Once I left prison, well, one, there were I wrote like 20 songs in prison from birds that I heard outside of my jail cell because there was a pitch, a soccer pitch like right on the outside." In 30 days, Jermaine Dupre had 28 songs; two months later his demo got him $500,000 record deal with Def Jam. He has since signed to Atlantic Records as an independent artist.

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