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Rebuttal

25: The Rap Lyrics On Trial

Rebuttal

Rebmasel

True Crime

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Beef between rappers keeps music alive and well. But what happens when a video of you lip syncing to rap lyrics at a party helps put you away for murder? Hear all about it with Reb at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Larry Jean Hart v. Texas (2024). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 4:01 - Sneak peek of Hart v. Texas (2024) 4:37 - Background - Can lyrics be used as evidence? 12:45 - Hart v. Texas begins / What happened at trial? 24:02 - Hart's first appeal 27:38 - Hart's second appeal 28:31 - Probative value of the rap videos 33:49 - Prejudicial effect of the rap videos 47:57 - Prosecution's need for the evidence 54:05 - Harm analysis 1:01:06 - Holding 1:01:59 - Reb's rebuttal 1:02:42 - Tiny teaser for Episode 26! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to the rebuttal podcast where we break down case law, calamity, and chaos in the legal field.

0:08.0

I am once again your host, Reb Maisel, and today we have very timely, very on point, very current of any stop to discuss.

0:20.0

Okay? If you have been living under a rock for the last week, you might be unaware of the present

0:29.2

Kendrick Lamar versus Drake rap beef, rancid beef going on right now. Okay? I didn't know that they were

0:38.0

beefing so hard until I saw it all over my page on TikTok and obviously it's like I'm a legal research girly you know what I mean like I love going on a rabbit hole

0:47.6

I love a Wikipedia moment I got buried I got buried because I was like let me let me not do all of the work that I have that's time

0:57.2

sensitive let me figure out why these two people are beefing and my God to have someone in a rap battle say you're trying to strike a

1:08.0

chord and it's probably a minor is crazy. Certified pedophile. Like that's a crazy bar.

1:17.5

Kendrick Lamar has literally won a Pulitzer Prize like in 2017 he won. He's the only rapper to ever do that ever gotten closer doing that okay it's insanity

1:27.1

of course he has a legal team out the ass and of course, he's aware.

1:33.8

I think he's pretty smart, to be honest,

1:35.7

that anything that he blatantly says

1:38.9

as a direct accusation, you know,

1:41.6

he better say it and be pretty sure about it if he doesn't want to get hit with some crazy you know legal dispute defamation type label type thing

1:51.1

yeah and his attorney said yes to this and he calls Drake a

1:55.3

certified pedophile which is so fucking funny. It's not funny. It's great.

2:00.4

It's horrible, right? But like God, if Drake is actually a pedophile, this is how we should probably do it. Extreme massive public humiliation and dropping off the face of the earth. Like that's all I can hope for. So this all happened last week, okay,

2:14.2

from the time that this episode was recorded,

2:16.7

meaning all of the beef came to a head last week

2:19.7

with like a bunch of distracts

2:21.0

that both sides were dropping, okay? A few days, when I say a few days, I mean like literally three days after,

2:27.2

okay, the last drop, like the last distract dropped.

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