![]() ![]() They've only been used or introduced five times, and in all five of the other cases, the lyrics were thrown out. This is about over the last, I would say, a decade, where in 500 separate cases, rap lyrics were introduced as part of indictment and conviction proceedings in comparison to other genres of music. You know, this is not just about Young Thug and Gunna. But generally speaking, if a person is charged with a crime and they've made a specific reference to that crime in a song, what is the issue with using it as evidence in a trial?īOWMAN: Well, first you have to start with hard evidence - forensic evidence, witness testimony, weapons and the like. RASCOE: So that Atlanta case is ongoing, and obviously defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. JAMAAL BOWMAN: Thank you so much for having me. Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York is a co-sponsor of the RAP Act, and he joins us now. RASCOE: Those words are currently being presented alongside other evidence in the case brought against Young Thug, Gunna and others in Atlanta. I got the streets on my back, carry it like I'm moving a body. YOUNG THUG: (Rapping) I never killed anybody, but I got something to do with that body. These eloquent essays create an exciting, subjective realm meant to transcend the personal and historical limitations of the individual and the end of culture, "plundered and polluted by politics and industry long ago.The Restoring Artists Protection Act, the RAP Act, is a proposal to limit the use of lyrics in federal criminal proceedings, lyrics from songs like this one called "Anybody" by Young Thug and Nicki Minaj. Yang Mu seized on verse to develop a distinct persona and draw meaning from the currents of change reshuffling his world. This was the formative milieu of the young poet. Nevertheless, throughout those early years, Yang Mu remained anchored by a sense of place on Taiwan's eastern coast and amid its coastal mountains, over which stands Mount Qilai like a guardian spirit. Yang Mu recounts his childhood experiences under the Japanese, life in the mountains in proximity to indigenous people as his family took refuge from the American bombings, his initial encounters and cultural conflicts with Nationalist soldiers recently arrived from mainland China, the subsequent activities of the Nationalist government to consolidate power, and the island's burgeoning new manufacturing society. Taken as a whole, these evocative and allusive autobiographical essays provide a personal response to history as Taiwan transitioned from a Japanese colony to the Republic of China. A place of immense natural beauty and cultural heterogeneity, the city was also a site of extensive social, political, and cultural change in the twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and the American bombings of World War II to the Chinese civil war, the White Terror, and the Cold War. Hualien, on the Pacific coast of eastern Taiwan, and its mountains, especially Mount Qilai, were deeply inspirational for the young poet Yang Mu. Was it the age of that oldest of Western cities, that little mother of Western civilisation, which captured her fancy? Or did a curious perversity turn her from more obvious abodes, or was she kept there by the charm of a certain church which she would enter every day to steep herself in mellow darkness, the scent of incense, the drone of incantations, and quiet communion with a God higher indeed than she had been brought up to, high-church though she had always been? She had a pretty little apartment, where for very little-the bulk of her small wealth was habitually at the service of others-she could manage with one maid and no "fuss." Now, in loneliness, the intrinsic independence of her soul was able to assert itself, and from hotel to hotel she had wandered in England, Wales, Switzerland, France, till now she had found what seemingly arrested her. She had been a widow ten years, which she had passed in the quest of perfection all her life she had been haunted by that instinct, half-smothered in ministering to her husband, children, and establishments in London and the country. How it came about that she had settled down in a southern French town, in the summer of 1914, only her roving spirit knew. Unto her seventy-eighth year, her French accent had remained unruffled, her soul in love with French gloves and dresses and her face had the pale, unwrinkled, slightly aquiline perfection of the 'French marquise' type-it may, perhaps, be doubted whether any French marquise ever looked the part so perfectly. THE GREY ANGEL Her predilection for things French came from childish recollections of school-days in Paris, and a hasty removal thence by her father during the revolution of '48, of later travels as a little maiden, by diligence, to Pau and the then undiscovered Pyrenees, to a Montpellier and a Nice as yet unspoiled.
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