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5:01 PM PT — Ice Cube says different states ought to observe California’s lead in blocking prosecutors from utilizing rap lyrics as proof in felony circumstances.
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We received Cube at LAX a pair hours after CA Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the invoice into regulation, and he informed us he desires to see the opposite 49 states observe swimsuit.
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Ice Cube says rap is simply leisure, evaluating rap lyrics to Stephen King novels.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is making Cali the primary state to dam prosecutors from freely utilizing rap lyrics as proof in felony circumstances — and the transfer has some high-profile supporters.
Newsom regarded like he was internet hosting a hip hop award present Friday as he put his John Hancock on Assembly Bill 2799. The signing went down in an internet discussion board that included Too $hort, Meek Mill, Killer Mike, Tyga, YG, E-40, Ty Dolla $ign. and another business heavyweights.
The new CA regulation prevents prosecutors from utilizing rappers’ lyrics in court docket as circumstantial proof … except a choose first evaluations and approves it. Before the Gov. signed, a number of of the rappers talked about why the invoice was so essential.
Cali homegrown MCs E-40 and Too $hort, specifically, confused the necessity for artists to have the liberty to creatively categorical themselves … and stated they hoped the Golden State would begin a pattern.
The same invoice in New York faltered earlier this yr in that state’s legislature.
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Veteran rapper and former convict X-Raided informed TMZ Hip Hop he all the time believed Newsom’s progressive politics would make the distinction in California.
The Strange Music artist spent 26 years in jail for his position in a 1992 homicide, however stated he believes he would have been acquitted if prosecutors had been barred from referencing his lyrics.
This has turn out to be a hot-button problem since Gunna, Young Thug and a number of other different YSL rappers had been indicted in a Georgia RICO case … with prosecutors elevating their lyrics to assist a number of the prices.
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