Rappers Are Teaching The Supreme Court About Music To Help Free A Man Jailed For His Lyrics
to review the case, writing, “The song’s lyrics were never meant to be read as bare text on a page. Rather, the lyrics were meant to be heard, with music, melody, rhythm and emotion.”In the amicus curiae brief filed by Killer Mike, 21 Savage, Chance the Rapper, Meek Mill, and others, the rappers said the court is “deeply unaware” of rap and hip hop music, and offered the justices what they described as"a primer.
The brief, which was also written by several scholars, even included an explanation of"diss tracks," which are described as"recorded songs in which rappers insult, or 'diss,' one another." R. Stanton Jones, one of Knox’s lawyers, told the New York Times that black men like Knox are “almost always targeted in these cases” compared to rappers who are white or more popular.
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