Best rap songs about jail?

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Missing from the latest "Jail issue" of XXL, a complete list of the best rap songs about being locked up.
I'll start with "Locked up" Akon feat Styles P...

― 'Sup, Monday, 6 June 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Devin's "Briar Patch" about jail?

― From Zero To Drunk In Twenty Dollars (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

BLACK STEEL IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS!

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"Now your name is just Twan"
- Ice Cube, Check Yo Self

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

WC and the MAAD Circle - "Out on a Furlough"

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Kool Keith - "Girls in Jail"

"You got too big in New York / You needed big hustlers around everywhere you walk / A lot of Cristal, fake ballers poppin corks /
Now you in a two-inch cell, eatin eggs and pork."

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Has any rapper covered Folsom Prison Blues? And how about that Lifer's Group album from the early 90's? Was that any good?

― Marshall Stax (Marshall Stax), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Jail House Rap," Fat Boys
"Behind Bars," Slick Rick

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

RYKER'S ISLAND

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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