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Rapper Tiny Doo facing long prison sentence over lyrics
CNN ^ | 01/23/2015 | Emma Lacey-Bordeaux

Posted on 01/23/2015 11:26:25 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

Song lyrics that glorify violence are hardly uncommon. But a prosecutor in California says one rapper's violent lyrics go beyond creative license to conspiracy.

San Diego-based rapper Tiny Doo has already spent eight months in prison, and faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted under a little-known California statute that makes it illegal to benefit from gang activities.

The statute in question is California Penal Code 182.5. The code makes it a felony for anyone to participate in a criminal street gang, have knowledge that a street gang has engaged in criminal activity, or benefit from that activity.

It's that last part -- benefiting from criminal activity -- that prosecutors are going after the rapper for.

Tiny Doo, whose real name is Brandon Duncan, faces nine counts of criminal street gang conspiracy because prosecutors allege he and 14 other alleged gang members increased their stature and respect following a rash of shootings in the city in 2013.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: rap; rapmusic; rapper; streetcred; tinydoo
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To: dfwgator
Sentencing someone for lyrics is going to take you down a very slippery slope.

We've fully become the Soviet Union. This sort of stuff is to be expected.

21 posted on 01/23/2015 12:01:43 PM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Defiant
This can’t possibly stand 1st amendment muster.

Of course it can. If the government is actively killing people they don't like, what makes you think they are going to let a silly little amendment slow them down?

22 posted on 01/23/2015 12:03:05 PM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“C’mon man. I need street cred. Can’t you get me for something? By the way, here’s a little something for your campaign”.....Tiny Doo


23 posted on 01/23/2015 12:05:56 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“doo”...another word for cRAP.


24 posted on 01/23/2015 12:06:56 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: dfwgator

Often it appears...these new affronts to liberty....are introduced....in a very logical...manner....This guy is a pos....so this action must be .....ok.

oh well


25 posted on 01/23/2015 12:17:32 PM PST by therapsida (i)
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To: therapsida

Je Suis Tiny Doo.


26 posted on 01/23/2015 12:32:31 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: cripplecreek



27 posted on 01/23/2015 12:34:59 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Je suis Tiny Doo

Well, wait a minute...that doesn't sound right.

28 posted on 01/23/2015 12:56:05 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: cripplecreek

What kind a gangsta name is Brandon?

It’s got prep school written all over it.


29 posted on 01/23/2015 12:57:32 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

LOL,,, that little shiit . .


30 posted on 01/23/2015 1:08:00 PM PST by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: Lazamataz
We've fully become the Soviet Union.

I'd guess that people who have actually lived in the USSR would vehemently disagree with you.

31 posted on 01/23/2015 1:10:04 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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To: BenLurkin

lolol.

That’s why Ron Artest changed his name to Metta World Peace.

Ron Artest might be a fine name for a white accountant in Plano, Texas.

But for a NBA thug?


32 posted on 01/23/2015 1:28:24 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well, on that basis, you could shut down the entire rap industry — which would help slow the coarsening of our culture.


33 posted on 01/23/2015 1:35:47 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Tiny Doo? As in Little S—t?


34 posted on 01/23/2015 1:36:13 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

No - that’s two “Doo’s”
hehe


35 posted on 01/23/2015 1:39:04 PM PST by potlatch ("Dream as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die today")
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To: Lazamataz
We've fully become the Soviet Union.

I disagree.

First, we aren't 'fully' like the Soviet Union (yet).

Second, when it is fulfilled, we will be like the Soviet Union if it was run by Muslims.

36 posted on 01/23/2015 2:14:04 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: WayneS
...or a Shit-zu?

Or a Shit-Zulu.

37 posted on 01/23/2015 4:18:09 PM PST by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; GeronL

Snoopy Dogg Person and Tiny Doo should do do a concert togetha!


38 posted on 01/23/2015 5:18:23 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Is Tiny Doo going to fill Diaperman’s slot in Parliament Funkadelic?


39 posted on 01/23/2015 5:22:52 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: WayneS

His street crud is firmly established.


40 posted on 01/23/2015 5:23:40 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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