Rap on Trial - Young Thug Was Not the First and Won’t Be the Last
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🗓️ 31 March 2025
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OA1144 - Professor Jack Lerner joins us for a follow up to OA1055 as we dive deeper into case law surrounding the usage of rap music in litigation, including discussion of the fight for lyrics to be admitted as evidence in the Young Thug trial in Fulton County, Georgia, and what mechanisms are being explored to address this at the state level in places like New York.
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| 1:54.2 | This is episode 1144. |
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