If Tiny Doo got in trouble for that lyric then what about Kendrick Lamar, who, in his [I]m.A.A.d city[/I] song he said :"If I told you I killed a nigga at sixteen, would you believe me?" Kendrick is also California-born.
Now, if people didn't know any better, the assumption would be that he probably did kill someone. But the meaning behind it is that he is referring to his innocence as a child and that no one thought he could kill anyone. Hell, MC Eiht took the fucking spotlight in terms of spouting gang violence with his feature in that song.
What I'm getting at is that lyrics should rarely be taken literally word-for-word and is hardly a means of evidence for a prosecution.
[QUOTE=gk99;47008978]Meanwhile we have people with like lyrics like this:
"How the fuck we sneak in with this many heaters in our jeans, nina, 2 nina's, a piece and they dont even see us some shit pops off we squeeze each one they gon' think its machine guns, vanos vo vano, bananas in our flannels, hands around our colt handles, hold them like roman candles"
"We don't do drivebys, we park in front of houses and shoot, and when the police come, we fuckin' shoot it out with them too!"
"Sorry officer, I don't care how pissed it gets you, but I don't go nowhere without my pistol pistol."
"Go to sleep bitch, die motherfucker die, time's up bitch, close your eyes, go to sleep bitch, why are you still alive, how many times I gotta say close your eyes, go to sleep bitch, die motherfucker die, bye bye, bye bye, go to sleep bitch, why are you still alive? Die motherfucker die-ie-ie!"
who are apparently perfectly fine.
This is hilarious.[/QUOTE]
D12 - Amityville, Git Up, Pistol Pistol and also Eminem's Go to Sleep? I love you.
[QUOTE=gk99;47008978]Meanwhile we have people with like lyrics like this:
"How the fuck we sneak in with this many heaters in our jeans, nina, 2 nina's, a piece and they dont even see us some shit pops off we squeeze each one they gon' think its machine guns, vanos vo vano, bananas in our flannels, hands around our colt handles, hold them like roman candles"
"We don't do drivebys, we park in front of houses and shoot, and when the police come, we fuckin' shoot it out with them too!"
"Sorry officer, I don't care how pissed it gets you, but I don't go nowhere without my pistol pistol."
"Go to sleep bitch, die motherfucker die, time's up bitch, close your eyes, go to sleep bitch, why are you still alive, how many times I gotta say close your eyes, go to sleep bitch, die motherfucker die, bye bye, bye bye, go to sleep bitch, why are you still alive? Die motherfucker die-ie-ie!"
who are apparently perfectly fine.
This is hilarious.[/QUOTE]
[Quote=Music Box]I'm fixated on asphyxating and breakin' this little chick's
Neck like a pixie stick
The sick Satan worshippin', bitches get horse-whippins,
I'm in the back, through the back door, slip in
Through the crack leavin' the corpse drippin'
The mortition of love, sent from above,
Forced entry, the more wenchy, the more stingy I become
Been doin' this for more than a quarter century, I'm just numb
Am I dreamin', is it real? Someone pinch me on the buns
The time has come to tie her up, gotta roll me the ladder
I'd had enough of the chatter, climb up to the window, look at her
And climb in and slowly shatter her brain matter and batter her
with the bat, a matter of fact that will splatter her
But before I do that, I'll have a chat to flatter her
Give her two compliments, back-to-back, like Tabatha!
I'm your secret admirer, I'm back to ravish ya
So strong is your fight, but you're no match for Dracula
Prolonging her plight, as I go back to stabbin' her
Dismember her limbs, simple as that, cadaver her
Zoom in with the lens, then pan back, the camera
Stand back, cuz here comes your man Jack, so Pamela[/quote]
[Quote=Kim]See it all makes sense, doesn't it?
You and your husband have a fight
One of you tries to grab a knife
And during the struggle he accidentally gets his Adam's apple sliced
(No!)
And while this is goin' on
His son just woke up and he just walks in
She panics and he gets his throat cut
(Oh, my God!)
So now they both dead and you slash your own throat
So now it's double homicide and suicide with no note
I should have known better when you started to act weird
We could've... HEY! Where you going? Get back here!
You can't run from me, Kim
It's just us, nobody else!
You're only making this harder on yourself
Ha! Ha! Got'cha!
(Ah!)
Ha! Go ahead, yell!
Here I'll scream with you!
AH, SOMEBODY HELP!
Don't you get it, bitch, no one can hear you?
Now shut the fuck up and get what's coming to you
You were supposed to love me
[Kim choking]
NOW BLEED! BITCH, BLEED!
BLEED! BITCH, BLEED! BLEED![/quote]
[Quote=3 AM]I remember the first time I dismembered a family member
December I think it was, I was havin' drinks with my cousin
I wrapped him in Christmas lights, pushed him into the stinkin' tub
Cut him up into pieces and just when I went to drink his blood
I thought I oughta drink his bath water that oughta be fun
That's when my days of serial murder manslaughter begun
The sight of blood excites me, that might be an artery son
Your blood curdling screams just don't seem to bother me none
It's 3 A.M. and here I come so you should probably run
A secret passageway around here man there's got to be one
Oh no there's probably none, he can scream all that he wants
Top of his lungs, but ain't no stoppin' me from choppin' him up[/quote]
Eminem would probably have a death sentence by now
Damn, I'm glad these people weren't around to prosecute Johnny Cash.
I bet they a lot of them like Johnny Cash and don't realize the irony.
[QUOTE=Lord_Ragnarok;47011254]Damn, I'm glad these people weren't around to prosecute Johnny Cash.
I bet they a lot of them like Johnny Cash and don't realize the irony.[/QUOTE]
Johnny Cash was gangsta as fuck
[QUOTE=gk99;47008978]Meanwhile we have people with like lyrics like this:
"How the fuck we sneak in with this many heaters in our jeans, nina, 2 nina's, a piece and they dont even see us some shit pops off we squeeze each one they gon' think its machine guns, vanos vo vano, bananas in our flannels, hands around our colt handles, hold them like roman candles"
"We don't do drivebys, we park in front of houses and shoot, and when the police come, we fuckin' shoot it out with them too!"
"Sorry officer, I don't care how pissed it gets you, but I don't go nowhere without my pistol pistol."
"Go to sleep bitch, die motherfucker die, time's up bitch, close your eyes, go to sleep bitch, why are you still alive, how many times I gotta say close your eyes, go to sleep bitch, die motherfucker die, bye bye, bye bye, go to sleep bitch, why are you still alive? Die motherfucker die-ie-ie!"
who are apparently perfectly fine.
This is hilarious.[/QUOTE]
If someone released music with those lyrics right after a wave of shootings involving a gang that the artist bragged about being part of you bet your ass they'd be brought to court.
There are plenty of cases of rap lyrics being considered inadmissible in court, because they're being used essentially for character assassination ('look he listened to/wrote violent rap, he must be a criminal') but that doesn't mean it's entirely inadmissible as evidence. In [url=http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=17889690674837261981&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr]People v. Olguin[/url] in 1994, rap lyrics written by one of the defendants were used to show that he was a member of the gang that committed a murder, and played a part in establishing his complicity in the crime.
I don't know where people get this idea that being art makes it off-limits as evidence. Rapping about killing someone isn't a crime, but if you're being tried for a murder that occurred shortly before you rapped about killing someone you'd be a fool to expect your lyrics not to be brought forward as evidence. If a prosecutor can establish that you're rapping about real events rather than make-believe adolescent fantasies, then lyrics can be considered an admission of guilt. This [url=http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/08/26/60592.htm]is what happened in 2013[/url]- a suspect awaiting extradition, accused of mugging a drug dealer in a parking lot, stealing his necklace, searching his pockets, and then shooting him, all while wearing a ski mask, wrote a series of rap songs in jail. One of them is called 'Drug Deala' and describes the rapper mugging a drug dealer for their necklace, in a parking lot, going through their pockets, wearing a ski mask, and it just so happened that the rapper had a new necklace he couldn't explain after the alleged shooting.
Obviously this case is more of a stretch since they're making some wishy-washy charge that he's profiting from gang activity, but the other part of the law is that participating in gang activity is a crime and the article says they're going after that too. If his lyrics point to specific events and claim responsibility then they'll be brought up as evidence, but short of that I don't think the prosecutors will have a leg to stand on.
By this logic snoop dogg, ice cube and every rapper to come out of California should be in jail
If they don't have any better evidence than that they ought to be suspended or fired.
By this logic, Robin Thicke, T.I., and Pharrell Williams should be sued for attempted rape as their song, Blurred Lines, suggests that the singer was trying to force himself onto the girl, an object of interest in the song, even though the song clearly states that she said no. It's retarded but you know, WORTH A SHOT!
Because song lyrics is totally something to go by when deciding justice.
Yes, this was a sarcastic post. Just gonna put this here to make sure.
By this logic, the Dire Straits will install my kitchen appliances.
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