Mei Rap lyrics are confession, causing racist debate

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] Can rap lyrics be used as "sang proof"? The United States sent a rapper who described various criminal acts in the lyrics into prison. According to the BBC report on August 31, in May this year, the pseudonym "Young Thug" American rapper Jeffrey Ramal Williams, which was charged with extortion and murder, Crime is imprisoned. In August, the Higher Court of Georgia's Fultona County High Court filed a new lawsuit on him, including participating in street gang activities, violating Georgian regulatory drug laws, holding guns during felony, etc. MV is presented as evidence in the indictment. The American News today reported that the judge of the Forton County High Court Grandower had issued a ruling, saying that the singer threatened the community security. It is reported that Williams once wrote in his rap "Gathering" and "London": "Except for the rest of the day on May 5th, I have to fuck a drug trafficking business every day." To fasten the seat belt. "" Except a person is as simple as weeding. "

It is reported that in the past 20 years, rap lyrics have appeared in the evidence of more than 500 criminal cases in more than 500 criminal cases across the United States. Last month, Hank Johnson, a member of the Black People's Lord Parliament from Georgia, proposed the "Restoration of Art Protection or Rap". He believed that rap lyrics as criminal evidence were racism. The rap industry practitioners agreed with this, and said that the art form of rap which rap is often attacked. Williams' case has aroused the attention of American society. Professor Enilson, a professor at the University of Richmond, said that by selecting threatening and prejudice lyrics, prosecutors can "play and continue the stereotypes of many jurors and judges against young black crimes" "." Even if they have no physical evidence.

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