I'm glad that with all of the issues and problems currently putting California into a crisis our state legislator is taking time to focus on what's important.
Now this is BIG.
Is only rap music protected? Or all forms of music, poetry, fiction and artistic expression?
They should outlaw murder weapons and fingerprints too.
Linky no worky. I’m the rare FReeper who likes to read the articles cited.
dat be raysis
Never-you-mind. Link suddenly started working for me. Off to my reading room.
Now we can yell the mother of all racially insulting words and it’s fine because it’s in rap music?
Well, then, I could argue the same re my own emails & writings, right?
smh
Defendant:" Naw dawg! Those was just rap lyrics, "Ten Thousand to kill her, don't care how you do it, just get it done."
Judge: "Can't use rap lyrics, case dismissed."
But it’s still going to be okay to throw people in jail for using “hate speech” though, right? HYPOCRITES!!!
So, if I send a threatening message to someone in the form of rap, it cannot be used as evidence against me?
So, if the lyric says you are gonna bust a cap in a fellow rappers ass, and you do, it’s not premeditated….right?
“they”, can kiss my azz...
Rap music is inherently insolent, misogynist, and mind-polluting. It encourages anti-social attitudes and has been a major factor in the decline of the black community over the last thirty years. It has reached a crisis point, with constant car-jackings, mob looting, and gun violence. Almost every day we see video of one or more of these things, and the participants are usually 80-100% black.