Rap on Trial
By:Erik Nielson
Published on 2019-11-05 by The New Press
A groundbreaking exposé on the increasingly common practice of prosecutors using rap lyrics as evidence, persecuting a new generation of young men of color Was the author of The Tell-Tale Heart a murderer? Should “I Shot the Sheriff”’s songwriter be in jail? Few would seriously subscribe to such a theory of justice. Yet in 2001, a rapper named Mac was convicted of manslaughter after the prosecutor quoted liberally from his album Shell Shocked—which reached #11 on the U.S. Billboard 200. Mac was sentenced to thirty years in prison, where he remains. And his case was just the beginning. Over the last two decades, prosecutors saw an opportunity: they could present the sometimes violent lyrics of amateur rappers as confessions to crimes or revelations of motive or intent—and judges and juries would go along with it. They’ve reopened cold cases, alleged gang affiliation, and gained convictions by dissecting lyrics in YouTube videos and social media profiles of the men of color who mostly rap as a creative outlet or hobby. Now, an alarming number of aspiring rappers are imprisoned. No other form of creative expression is treated this way in the courts. Rap on Trial places this disturbing prosecutorial practice in the context of hip hop history and exposes the stakes. It’s a gripping, timely exploration at the crossroads of contemporary hip hop and mass incarceration.
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