Atlanta DA Warns Rappers To Stop Confessing To Crimes With Lyrics
ABL | 8/30/22 | Anthony Brian LoganThe Fulton County (Atlanta) District Attorney Fani Willis issued a warning to rappers about confessing to crimes through lyrics in songs.
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Hardcore fans of the rap collective accuse Willis of targeting rappers and denying them artistic leeway. A bill has been drafted in the US House Of Representatives called the “RAP ACT” that would prevent lyrics from being used against rappers.
Willis responded to a question about this ongoing controversy of rappers being “targeted” by her office. Her response, in a nutshell, was simple advice. She advised that rappers stop confessing to crimes in their songs if they don’t want these songs to be used against them in a court of law.
Straight Line of the Day: Other things that songwriters should stop saying: …
Other things that songwriters should stop saying: … the bird is the word.
Anything in Louie Louie.
I heard if you play a Milli Vanilla record backwards you can hear them say “suicide solution..suicide solution”.
Other things that songwriters should stop saying: …
I am woman, hear me roar.
… “Jesus is just alright” – so wish-washy…
… “Won’t get fooled again” – hahahahahahaha
“Don’t Worry… Be Happy”
“Don’t worry about a thing… ’cause every little thing is gonna be alright.”
The Beatles were pioneers of the “preferred pronoun” stuff:
“I am he, as you are he, as you are me, and we are all together.”
They’ve already stopped that, though.
Songwriters should stop calling people Space Cowboy, Gangster of Love, or Maurice, when they have no idea what the hell he’s talking about.
What the heck is a “pompatus,” anyway?
Did that “I Shot the Sheriff” guy ever get indicted for actually going out and doing it?
And is his denial of shooting the deputy admissible in court?
In New York, California and Illinois, his denial would get him no bail and released within hours. And the DA would give his gun back and give him an IRS employment application.
Someone left the cake out in the rain I don’t think that I can take it ’cause it took so long to bake it And I’ll never have that recipe again Oh, nooooo
Yes, they should stop saying that because it makes the whole country look like idiots.
They should stop asking if we are ready to rock, after what we’ve gone through to get into the concert.
If I go there will be trouble, if I stay it will be double.
In the desert you can remember your name, for there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.
Scene: Rap concert about to begin.
Lawyer reads Miranda Warning aloud.
Rap acts pack their gear.
All of the lyrics from Manfred Mann’s Blinded by the Light
Songs about cars are bad?
Are Springsteen’s lyrics still okay?
Grease is not the word.
{The bird is.}
I did not hear it.
It does not have mood.
It does, naturally, have meaning.
If they WERE all California Girls, what would that do the demographics of the rest of the world?
I suppose that depends on your outlook. 1. Are all the girls in the world in CA? Greedy jerks. 2. Are all the girls in the world like the girls from CA? 2A. Many places in the world would be MUCH better looking. 2B. The liberal disease would consume the earth.
Side note: I wish we had CA girls were I’m at. All our women are fat, pasty, with half of their head shaved and still raging liberals.
Watergate does not bother me…
I’d be happy if they could just go back to innuendo’s instead of saying the real stuff. I can at least listen to “last dance with mary Jane” around my kids and tell them it’s a song about a girl.
You tell them Purple Haze is an atmospheric phenomenon that appears after Purple Rain?
Anyone singing “You make me feel like a natural woman” will be labeled a TERF.
Unless Caitlyn Jenner is singing the song to his bottom surgeon.
… “Heard it in a love song – can’t be wrong” – hahahahahahaha
I got bills, they’re multiplying
EV’s losing control
Cause the power, the grid’s supplying
It’s not electrifying!
“Everybody was kung fu fighting.”
I remember that night distinctly. I, for one, was not.
“Everybody wants to rule the world.”
Again . . .
Can we all Wang Chung?
NO!
You have to wait until after sundown.
I thought we were all doing the locomotion.
…bragging about the quality of their bunch of coconuts.
…how we should feel about the Reaper. -with or without cowbell.
After seeing Greta:
“Zank Heaven for Little Girls”
Or, perhaps,
“Empty Tank Heaven for Little Girls”
Stop with the ” God Save The Queen”..that song is so yesterday…
You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs.
May I note that, based on the quality of the writing one usually finds in rap lyrics, I find it stretches credibility to believe that these rappers are able to be descriptive enough that prosecutors can actually associate any of their songs to a specific crime.