Episode #175 - Keith Lamar & Albert Marques

Improv Exchange Podcast by Leander Young

Aug 11, 202553:19Music

In 1989, Keith LaMar (aka Bomani Shakur) was sent to prison at age 19 for murder. He had been living in Cleveland, Ohio, where he sold drugs as a means of survival in the Crack-infested streets he knew as home. On a day...

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