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Fulton County DA Defends The Right To Use Rap Lyrics In Court In Light Of RICO Gang Indictment · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Now if you're just joining us with talking about Fulton County,
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  Speaker 1: DA Fanny Willis Willis Now. Yesterday, twenty six alleged gang
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  Speaker 1: members were indicted for Atlanta area home invasions, also kidnappings,
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  Speaker 1: on robbery shootings, and targeting people like Mariah Carey, Atlanta Falcons,
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  Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley, and the Real Housewives of Atlanta. Marlo Hampton. Well,
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  Speaker 1: she said this yesterday. I'm not targeting anyone. But however,
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  Speaker 1: you do not get to commit crimes in my county
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  Speaker 1: and then decide to brag on it, which you do
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  Speaker 1: that for a form of intimidation and to further the
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  Speaker 1: gang and not be held responsible. One of the lyrics
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  Speaker 1: and used in this indictment, just one of the lyrics
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  Speaker 1: is me and my crew striking out, striking in all black,
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  Speaker 1: Send me the drop, will kick in the house. If
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  Speaker 1: we're steal a car, we're gonna take off the tag. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're kicking indoors, committing home invasions, and now I'm using
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  Speaker 1: those lyrics that they're admitting to doing that. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to continue to do that. People can continue to be
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  Speaker 1: angry about it. I have some legal advice. Don't confess
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  Speaker 1: to crimes on rap lyrics if you do not want
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  Speaker 1: them used, or at least get out of my accounty.
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  Speaker 1: You have to tell me what that woman is saying wrong,
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't hear one thing that she said wrong
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  Speaker 1: in that whole statement. And the problem with humans is
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  Speaker 1: they don't like to deal with the consequences of their actions.
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  Speaker 1: And we told y'all just a little while ago that
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  Speaker 1: you know, number one, we don't want people committing crimes.
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  Speaker 1: And we can talk about all of the different factors,
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  Speaker 1: all the different socioeconomic factors that lead people to a
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  Speaker 1: life of crime. But if you are going to commit crimes,
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  Speaker 1: if you have committed crimes, why are y'all on social
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  Speaker 1: media bragging about said crime? Why are y'all on rap
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  Speaker 1: songs confessing to said crime and got the nerve to
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  Speaker 1: talk about snitches getting stitches when you out here self
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  Speaker 1: incriminating yourself. I will never understand it. I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: And she gave the perfect legal advice. If you're going
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  Speaker 1: to commit these crimes, why are you getting on records
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  Speaker 1: bragging about it? Don't confess the crimes on rap lyrics
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  Speaker 1: if you don't want me to use them, or at
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  Speaker 1: least get out of my county. If you decide to
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  Speaker 1: admit your crime over a beat, I'm going to use it.
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  Speaker 1: And I totally agree if you're dumb enough to commit
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  Speaker 1: a crime and then detail what you did and explain
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  Speaker 1: how you got away, how you still cause you change
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  Speaker 1: the plates, how you break into the cribs, and if
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  Speaker 1: you're that dumb, you deserve to sit down for a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. And how come there's so many oldgs out here,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fighting saying that you know, rap lyrics shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be used in court. Why aren't the oldgs sitting these
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  Speaker 1: young brothers and sisters down and telling them, Look, man,
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  Speaker 1: if y'all really out there in the street doing these things,
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  Speaker 1: if y'all have done these things, don't talk about them
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  Speaker 1: on your records. Why you can't say if you're you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to say that this woman the DA is targeting rappers,
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  Speaker 1: but these rappers are making themselves obvious targets by bragging
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  Speaker 1: about what it is they've done and are doing. We'll
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  Speaker 1: not talk to him about not putting it in their lyrics.
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  Speaker 1: I think you talked to them about not doing the
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  Speaker 1: stupidest that they're doing because they gonna get killed. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you get killed. But that's why I said number one,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want people committing crimes. Correct, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. And like you know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: socio economic factors that lead people to committing crimes. The
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  Speaker 1: number one is poverty. Okay, but yes, I agree. If
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  Speaker 1: they're going to do these things, why get on the
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  Speaker 1: records and talking about them. And the other thing is,
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  Speaker 1: if it's not real, if it's just entertainment, if it's
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  Speaker 1: just art, then me Leonard m Kelvy, Charlomagne and God,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling y'ayall should change the content of your art
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  Speaker 1: because all it's doing is getting you indicted and influencing
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  Speaker 1: the generation the kids to do the wrong thing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the phone lines. Kenny, go morning, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on over? Man? Hear me? I can hear you, Kenny,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? Talk to me? Let me take it off?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you? Take it all blue tooth, Kenny, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: take it off. I want to say, bro. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: upset because it's like these distric attorneys all over the nation,
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  Speaker 1: they put in the common hairs. Basically they throwing brothers
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  Speaker 1: out of the butt. But we never see them in
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  Speaker 1: these motorcycle games. We don't know what these motorcycle games
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  Speaker 1: you can carry. You don't say you'll see about forty
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the highway all nine of the motorcyclestoryc country.
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  Speaker 1: They've be carrying meth because anything time communities, but we
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  Speaker 1: never Out'm all, I'm forty six years. I ain't never
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  Speaker 1: seen them get a dinted or never seen no motorcycle
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  Speaker 1: game clucause claim anybody bit of dieted in it's own
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  Speaker 1: every radio station, every TV or nothing like that will
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  Speaker 1: do crime. You know what I'm saying, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: any j you're gonna see any race that well, they
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  Speaker 1: only teted right well that well, my brother Atlanta I was.
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  Speaker 1: I will say where you're right at it that you
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  Speaker 1: don't see it a lot because for whatever reason, these
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  Speaker 1: stories aren't sexy to the media. But man, those motorcycle
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  Speaker 1: games getting indicted all the time, but they're not rapping
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  Speaker 1: in their lyrics. I don't think that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: There's no celebrity attached to the motorcycle games. If there
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  Speaker 1: was a celebrity in one of these motorcycle games, that
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  Speaker 1: probably wouldn't make more media news, but he's more these
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  Speaker 1: motorcycle games getting dibted all the time, all the time. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: who's google it? It's Chris Chris. Good morning, Chris from Milanda.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you' from Atlanta. So how you feel about what
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  Speaker 1: she said? Chris, Listen, I'm gonna be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know there's a there's a there's a
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  Speaker 1: perspective or freedom of speech. But you gotta realize, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what was said in terms of virus and things of
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  Speaker 1: that nature. Back in the day, it was more storytelling
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  Speaker 1: than it is. People are actually talking about actually doing
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  Speaker 1: these particular things. So I applause Fanny for you know,
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  Speaker 1: putting responsibility back in the back in music, honestly. And
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  Speaker 1: let's be real too, My brother, I'm forty fourth, so
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  Speaker 1: I was raising the nineteen hundreds. I'm assuming you was
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  Speaker 1: raising the nineteen hundreds too, right, Hey, before you listen,
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing them niggas was lying. The rappers back
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  Speaker 1: then was lying their ass off. We used to say
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  Speaker 1: it all the time. If rappers were doing half of
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  Speaker 1: what they said they were doing in their wraps, they'd
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  Speaker 1: all be under the jail. The difference between this generation
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  Speaker 1: and our generation, these little dudes is really out here
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  Speaker 1: living that life they're rapping about, allegedly allegedly, No, they are, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it depends. I mean some of them, some of them are.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them are. Let to you right right, all right, brother,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Kenny. Be safe out there, thank you. So
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  Speaker 1: some people have nothing wrong. Some people are mad at her,
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  Speaker 1: but I think like she's cleaning the land u up
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  Speaker 1: and she's like, look, if you're dumb enough to do
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  Speaker 1: the crime and put it in the rhyme, you you
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  Speaker 1: snitching on yourself. I'm gonna rash. That's That's all I
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  Speaker 1: want to know, is man like, like, if if if
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  Speaker 1: you got to commit the crime, right, even though you don't,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to, But I understand the socio economic
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  Speaker 1: conditions that lead people to do it. But if you
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  Speaker 1: do it, why do you get on social media and
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  Speaker 1: brag about it? Why do you get on rap songs
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  Speaker 1: and talk about the crimes y'all have committed? And then
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  Speaker 1: you got the nerve to say that this woman is
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  Speaker 1: targeting rappers, when the truth of the matter is the
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  Speaker 1: rappers are making themselves obvious targets about bragging about what
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  Speaker 1: it is they're doing or have done. Right, Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to the phone lines. Drake, I'm on and Drake Drake, Yeah, yo, yo,
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  Speaker 1: what's up Drake? What's your thought? Bro? Man? I feel like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I hear me, Yeah, I got my head set on.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, I mean, I definitely understand where the
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  Speaker 1: district attorney coming from, but it's like, can you how
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  Speaker 1: can you put all your words, all the rappers words,
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  Speaker 1: and hold them accountable for that when there's clearly a
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  Speaker 1: lot of entertainment going on in there? Well? I think
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  Speaker 1: I think I think the DA and the law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: is smart enough to know when somebody's just rapping and
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  Speaker 1: when somebody's actually uh you know, rapping and doing what
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  Speaker 1: it is that they say they've what they're rapping about
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  Speaker 1: that they're investigating. It's not like they just look at
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  Speaker 1: listen to your lyrics and say, oh, he said this,
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  Speaker 1: let's go get them right. I understand that, But if
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  Speaker 1: they don't, they gotta least have like clear like evidence,
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  Speaker 1: not just going off of what they say. But that's
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  Speaker 1: my I'm sure they do, That's what I'm saying. I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they do. That's my point. Like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they just indicting these people just because the lyrics.
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  Speaker 1: That wouldn't make no sense. They couldn't win those type
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  Speaker 1: of cases. But I'm but that's what she's saying. Off,
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  Speaker 1: that's what she on by it right now? No, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: she's using both. She's saying that y'all are rapping about this,
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  Speaker 1: and then this is exactly what y'all are doing. This
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  Speaker 1: is what we're finding out y'all are actually doing out
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  Speaker 1: here in these streets. That's what she's saying, right right.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta have an evidence for sure. I'm sure they do,
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  Speaker 1: my brother, all right, man, have a go on, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because those you couldn't just take somebody to court because
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  Speaker 1: of their lyrics. That wouldn't hold up with it, not
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  Speaker 1: at all. Hello, who's this? You gotta have a crime
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  Speaker 1: to go with it? Hello? Hello? Hey, who's this? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: This is there from Jersey. I'm back on? He said, Well, bro,
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  Speaker 1: this is there from Jersey. You hear me? Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: can't you what's what do you think? Bro? Oh? All right? So,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, um, from the beginning, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a good that somebody in office, in position that satting
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  Speaker 1: them know that they're not above the wall. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if they was said enough for bold enough to admit
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  Speaker 1: to their crimes and lyrics, it is good that somebody
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  Speaker 1: is letting them know that they won't be able to
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  Speaker 1: fla that type of herman. The citizens the fort and
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  Speaker 1: County or Atlanta, and somebody has finally putting them in
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  Speaker 1: that place. Now you have the freedom, since America ties
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  Speaker 1: you to freedom to speak, you have the freedom to
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  Speaker 1: say what you want. But that can and will be
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  Speaker 1: used against you in the court of law. And she
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  Speaker 1: just proves that and Amanda for that. Okay, well, thank you, brother,
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  Speaker 1: you're welcome. Let's take one more caller. Hello, who's this y'all? Y'all, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: Your amy was good boy. This old school from Miami. Man,
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  Speaker 1: old school from Miami. What's popping? Brother? What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: Homie Mann? Hey, listen, that little top is one I
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  Speaker 1: was talking about this, Me and my home boys. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be on that same shop. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And it's true with Charlo that so you know, this
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  Speaker 1: this generation has no members, man, so they go what
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  Speaker 1: they did because because you know, it's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: crimes that's going on out here to these clouds state.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so they're not getting solved. So therefore, if
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  Speaker 1: you gonna drop drop for records and you and you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about a cloud that was committed and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: somebody don't die, if somebody doun't got hurt in that
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  Speaker 1: cloud and they come back and grab me, hey, you
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  Speaker 1: deserve that. When Yeah, it's gonna because remember when they
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  Speaker 1: read you, you're a random rights. You have the right
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  Speaker 1: to remain silent. Anything you say or do will be
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  Speaker 1: you against you. That's right, nobody else you know I'm saying. So,
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  Speaker 1: So if you're going to recording and then you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: drop the lyrics and then and then they charge you
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  Speaker 1: with it, you desire that, bro, That's right because these
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  Speaker 1: niggas is not remaining silent. These niggas are going in
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  Speaker 1: the studio with beat and they loud as hell. I
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  Speaker 1: killed them. I shot him, I kicked out his dog,
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  Speaker 1: I beat up his dog, get through his girl on
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  Speaker 1: the floor, rob him up his change, rob him up
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  Speaker 1: his car. Look at my face on you can't know
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  Speaker 1: who I all the guns in my mama house. He
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  Speaker 1: d Look what I was wearing on that night of
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  Speaker 1: the robbery. I had on nikes and a hoodie and
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  Speaker 1: some pads sagging, and the ass was out, and I
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  Speaker 1: got asked, got a bad Why are you always go
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  Speaker 1: there with the shut up like he was? He was
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  Speaker 1: going good like it was about the bat ask was
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  Speaker 1: out that you always got to go there with it. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: here's the moral of the story is a lot of
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  Speaker 1: this is all fault, and the reason it's all fall
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  Speaker 1: is because so many rappers from our generation, the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: hundreds were lying, lying the ass off, and it made
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of kids think the way to get in
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  Speaker 1: the game was to be the biggest criminal alive. And
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  Speaker 1: guess what, you know you can't do that. Okay, you
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  Speaker 1: can't be the biggest criminal alive and be a rapper
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. But it's aw fault because we
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  Speaker 1: should have never let rappers lie like that for entertainment,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Because if it's just art, then we have
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  Speaker 1: to demand and that some of these people change the
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  Speaker 1: content of their art, because all it is doing is
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  Speaker 1: getting a bunch of people indicted and influencing the generation
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  Speaker 1: of kids. Wrong. That's right, period, all right. Wow, And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, don't make the same mistake with this
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  Speaker 1: da that y'all made. Would see the Lords Tucker. Because
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  Speaker 1: See the Lords Tucker wasn't wrong. You know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying that Snoop said when he was up here. They
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  Speaker 1: just didn't like see the Lords, see the Lords Tucker's approach,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But she wasn't wrong. And
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  Speaker 1: when she was telling people to change the content of
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  Speaker 1: their music, honorable minute, Luis par Comme and telling us
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. For ye, it's changed the content of
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  Speaker 1: their music. Because once again, all you're seeing is a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of people getting indicted, and you're influencing the generation
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  Speaker 1: of kids and wrong. And if you're doing that just
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of entertainment, just for the sake of art,
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  Speaker 1: you part of the problem, bro, and not the solution.
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  Speaker 1: Might as well be the same white man you claim
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  Speaker 1: as the press in us all the time