Megan's Rule: Being exceptional doesn't make you the exception

Louder Than A Riot

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Music History, Music, Society & Culture, Music Interviews, True Crime

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🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It felt like the December 2022 trial of Tory Lanez sparked a divide in hip-hop, but it just stoked the flames of a 50-year-long battle for Black women to be heard. In the first episode of our new season, we take you into Megan Thee Stallion's testimony to unpack the impact of misogynoir on rap.

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0:00.0	A warning before we begin this podcast is explicit in every way
0:07.9	Okay, cool, cool, all right
0:12.6	My name is Valentino McCoy, but you can find me on our platforms at Casentino
0:20.0	Oh, we I've been here about five days five days. Yeah, yeah five days
0:26.3	Lining up for five days is the type of commitment people usually only put in for exclusive sneaker drops
0:33.2	But in December of 2022
0:35.7	Casentino was waiting daily to get into an LA courtroom
0:39.2	I saw this case happen. I was like I can't see a black man get real world. I knew what happened from the
0:45.2	Inside the LA County Superior Courthouse, Torrey Lane's was standing trial for assault with the daily weapon
0:51.5	And in the courtroom on a 15th floor judge herrford and the bay lifts in four strict silence outside was a different story
1:01.5	Not guilty
1:03.0	Not guilty easy will spiritual do many as God with them and the truth to come out and he'll be not guilty
1:09.7	If she's lying about being and then affair with them if she's lying about different things then
1:17.6	Obviously, what else was she lie about?
1:20.5	Soon as they found out that he shot allegedly shot Megan allegedly, let me get that clear allegedly
1:27.6	That he lost everything. Hey, I'm not inside on me to case and this I know a tech on black women either
1:33.0	We like protect black women for protect both parties. We'll take black men suit
1:38.6	What do you think the reddict is gonna be one at a time?
1:42.2	That brother is innocent
1:45.2	Innocent we got a theme song
1:48.2	Innocent well
1:51.6	Torrey Lane's is innocent
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