Rap Lyrics and the Courtroom

[Ominous]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/nyregion/12trial.html

This ain't nothing new. I just found the article interesting because they are pulling in RAP EXPERTS to help breakdown the lyrics. I find it amazing how far Rap has come and how it reaches other people away from the fan side of things. I mean, we all live it and breathe it but all the people involved with this case approach it like a forensic study or something.

They don't give much else on the case because the article is focused on how the lyrics play a role.... but it would be interesting to see if this was more of a wrong place at the wrong time kinda thing. I mean imagine, you write lyrics saying the same ole pop-a-cop rhymes and then they try to pin it on you based on your rhymes when you had nothing to do with it at all?

Anyway, the article doesn't really explain whether or not there are other facts linking the accused to the crime and the lyrics are just more proof of that.

 

[StressWon]

this shit makes me laff,,,nit because of the story, but back in 99 I was drivin my man's car back from the shore(jersey talk for the BEACH) I was the less of the two that were fucked up. He was drunk, I was high.(Naturally) I didn't know my license was supended, we get pulled over because we were driving thru an area where a black man and a white man in car automattically means "trouble",,,anyways, I get locked up and I had a page of rhymes in my back pocket,,,lol,,,i was hopin they didnt read it because i didnt want to explain that to these racist assholes. Funny. I came home that morning and left my envelope of belongings on the table, and my page of rhymes on the enevlope. My smartass roomate came home and sees the nevelope and writes "One page of Rhymes" on the list of belongings,,lol

 

[Relic]

"most notably in testimony from a federal agent who recited a gang member.....

OK the problem I have noticed here on ill is that if you want to copy and paste from another site it has trouble post ing it.....

Lets just say I had some witty observances from the article but at this moment Im not gonna fight ill to make em post..

Bottom line Id love to have the recordings of these cops saying these rap lyrics in monotones, Id sample it...
Also the lyrics quoted suck....
and if you do some shit and then write about it you deserve to get caught cuz your an idiot.
Thats one reason I quit writting , I ran out of shit I could say and remain free,,lol.

Aditionally who the hell is the "Expert".?

 

[The Bastard]

''On an audio surveillance recording, jurors heard the undercover detectives call Staten Island “Shaolin” in homage to the Wu-Tang Clan, the borough’s most famous rap export, a group whose members are somewhat obsessed with martial arts. A defense lawyer, Ephraim Savitt, briefly asked one witness to explain the reference, but never got a clear answer.''


........................classic

 

[Ominous]

LOL at Stress. Quit getting arrested.

"Mr. Wilson’s lawyers have indicated that they plan to call a scholar named Yasser Arafat Payne, described in court documents as a rap expert". How do you become a Rap Expert? Do you memorize all the rhymes that have ever been written? Do you have to know the answers to weird trivia like "Who was LL COOl J's original DJ?"

Bastard sees what I'm getting at. Who the hell refers to Wu-Tang as "a group whos members are obsessed with martial arts" besides some people who have nothing to do with hip hop.

This reminds me of this time in high school where they had an open-mic battle at lunch and the English teacher stopped it because of their depiction of violence. I laughed because they obviously had no idea what a mic battle was all about and that these guys weren't anywhere near capable of doing what they said they were going to. It just wasn't that serious. I mean... if you got the guy's finger prints on a weapon... okay. But if you pull over Stress and he has a pocket full of rhymes talking about decapitating hobos and a week later, you find a decapitated hobo.... I don't think you should be dragging him to court. Unless of course, Stress is sporting a chopped off hobo ear like an iced out medallion.

 

[StressWon]

But if you pull over Stress and he has a pocket full of rhymes talking about decapitating hobos and a week later, you find a decapitated hobo.... I don't think you should be dragging him to court. Unless of course, Stress is sporting a chopped off hobo ear like an iced out medallion.

how did you know what my rhymes were? I hate HOBOS!

 

[Relic]

^But loves HOMOS! lol