"A child is born with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
God is smiling on you but he's frowning too
Because only God knows what you'll go through
You'll grow in the ghetto, living second rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
The places you're playin', where you stay
Looks like one great big alley way
You'll admire all the number book takers
Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers
Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
And you wanna grow up to be just like them, huh,
Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers
Pickpockets, peddlers even panhandlers
You say: "I'm cool, I'm no fool!"
But then you wind up dropping out of high school
Now you're unemployed, all non-void
Walking 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
Turned stickup kid, look what you've done did
Got sent up for a eight year bid
Now your manhood is took and you're a may tag
Spend the next two years as a undercover fag
Being used and abused to serve like hell
Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell
It was plain to see that your life was lost
You was cold and your body swung back and forth
But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
Of how you lived so fast and died so young"
C'est vrai sinon qu'il y a peu de disques ou de titres dans notre genre musical favori consacrés à l'univers carcéral. En revanche il y a pas mal de bons films en relation avec la culture soul/funk, Foxy a déjà cité Short Eyes avec C. Mayfield, je ne peux pas ne pas évoquer la trilogie Penitentiary de Jamaa Fanaka, en particulier le très funky (dans tous les sens du terme) premier volet qui est pour moi incontournable (1979).
Une critique pas mal ici:
http://tortillafilms.tortillapolis.org/ ... tiary.html
Un autre classique, The Slams avec Jim Brown (1973)
Je pense aussi que tu peux trouver des trucs sympas du coté des humoristes, si ce n'est pas hors sujet.
Richard Pryor bien sur, avec ce sketch classique extrait de son Live on the Sunset Strip (1982)
"I did a movie ... in Arizona State Penitentiary ... oh man it was strange cause it's like 80% black people, and what's strange about that is that they're are no black people in Arizona"
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Un autre sketch de Pryor : The Worst Thing About Jail
Un petit clin d’œil
Le plus grand succès de Pryor au cinéma, avec Gene Wilder, est un film que se passe... dans un pénitencier
(Stir Crazy 1980)
