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Next month, Contessa Gayles' Songs From the Hole, billed as a documentary-visual album in collaboration with James "JJ'88" Jacobs, will arrive on Netflix following its award-winning festival run. You ...

Actors gaze up to the sky during JJ'88's "ROOT" in the hip-hop artist and former inmate's documentary and visual album Songs from the Hole. Before the song starts, protagonist and producer James ...

The Netflix documentary-slash-visual album "Songs from the Hole” follows the life and journey of the musician JJ'88, who was convicted of murder as a teenager. While spending months in solitary ...

Music, more than a product or anything else, is a sacred act. That's the prevailing premise of director Contessa Gayles' award-winning Songs From The Hole, a 90-minute documentary on Netflix that ...

"'I'm dangerous,' they said." Through tears over the phone, James Jacobs, the hip-hop artist who goes by the stage name of JJ'88, tells his father that the hearing to reduce his sentence was denied.