Posted on 06/19/2015 11:44:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
High-profile murderers often attract a fringe element that is, in the face of all evidence, convinced of the accused's innocence. Jodi Arias is no exception. Except, one of her fans is a rapper.
Thirty-four-year-old Kareem Williams, a.k.a. Lefty, is a fanatical supporter of Jodi Arias, who was convicted of the murder of her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in 2013 and sentenced to life in prison earlier this year. Williams has recorded a song expressing sympathy for the woman, who a jury found to have slit the throat of victim Travis Alexander and stabbed almost 30 times. Like many other supporters, he believes that Arias was wrongly prosecuted for the murder.
“I do think it was second degree manslaughter,” says the Philadelphia transplant. “I feel like it was not premeditated.”
Williams attended the trial and went every day that he could. He has written letters to Arias and says he has been in contact with her family. He believes that the media’s sensationalizing of the story made it much more difficult for Jodi, as he calls her, to receive a fair trial. In the song, he even attacks Troy Haden from Fox News 10.
“Her interview put Troy on the map/ Then he had the nerve to stab her in the back,“ proclaims Williams over the dark, heavy production provided by DCEE. Haden has worked for Fox since 1994.
When asked to elaborate on the line, Williams had plenty to say.
“He blocked me on Twitter because I wrote an article,” he says, referring to a blog post he wrote accusing Haden of leaking footage of Arias singing in prison. “Her thing was don’t release any footage without her consent. She actually told me this video was released without her consent.”
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“The City of Yreka”??
It be a G thang Yo!
Black rappers looking for fame have attached themselves to guys like Manson for years in ‘song’. It’s part of the whole ‘Harder than thou” Gangsta’ image. This guy had the foresight to diversify his audience with a female and milk them accordingly, rather than rehash Ted or Chuck.
Jodi has killed more people than 99% of rappers, so I guess she is a more real gangster than them.
I seem to remember Axl Rose & Guns & Roses did a cover of a Charles Manson song. And they are white.
Oh lots of white guys have done it, no doubt. What I’m saying is that Rappers make it part of the image. A core part.
How is stabbing a person THIRTY-EIGHT times, slitting their throat, &c., NOT premeditated?
The jury had NO GUTS. Shame on them.
How is stabbing a person THIRTY-EIGHT times, slitting their throat, &c., NOT premeditated?
The jury had NO GUTS. Shame on them.
Only one member of the jury voted against.
Well then.
That wasn’t immediately obvious when the verdict was out...I was glued to Headline News (only network carrying that and the American Sniper trial) at the time.
She was convicted of first degree murder. They had to separate juries to decide the penalty. Both of them were mistrials.
Lefty is empirical proof that it takes no intelligence to make a rap song.
Yeah. That part, I knew.
But to be saved upon the hesitation of one juror? Un-freaking-believable.
Should have been excused in the beginning—probably had a hidden prejudice against the death penalty...
If it was some gangland nutrider singing ballads about the “Waco 170”, he’d find plenty of fans here.
Picture verifies.
Huh?
Charles Manson never recorded a song.
G&R did a remake of “The Beatles” “Helter Skelter”, which a delusional Manson believed was telling him to start a race war.
Mea Culpa.
Seems Charlie did record, and GnR did re-record one song of his called “Look at your Game Girl”
It’s on the “Spaghetti Incident” CD. One that I don’t own.
Sorry for the bad call.
Yeah, you’d never catch a white pseudo-folk singer like Bruce Springsteen singing about a killer like Charles Starkweather.
Bruce? A singer? That’s a stretch. Grunting mumbler sure. But singer? I dunno...
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