Rapper starts paying bill for prison out of royalties

Saturday, April 27, 2002

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Some prison inmates in Missouri must use investments and insurance policies to offset the costs of their incarceration. But for a former bandmate of St. Louis rapper Nelly, hey, it must be the money.

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