Rap on Trial

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Charis Kubrin is a professor of criminology at University of California Irvine whose extensive analysis of rap lyrics has provided the basis for her expert testimony in cases around the U.S. in which an artist’s work has been used against them as criminal evidence. Professor Kubrin joins us to explain what brought her to this subject, the history of “rap on trial,” and her ongoing work with the defense bar to push back against this problematic and almost inevitably racist practice.

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0:00.0	Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
0:07.0	He gags me! What's my crime? I got bold and a little negligent? Nope!
0:23.0	Bales are coming to take away my will to live.
0:28.0	Fuck them, though.
0:32.0	One count of being a bear, and one count Fuck them though, though.
0:32.5	One count of being a bear, and one count of being an accessory to being a bear.
0:37.5	I hate the Supreme Court.
0:42.6	Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
0:46.9	This is episode 1,055.
0:49.7	I'm Thomas Smith that over there's real life attorney finally at home are you back or no back at the
0:56.4	office and very happy to be with you Matt Cameron back at last it's like you were never
1:01.3	gone though yeah back to work.
1:05.0	I had a great July, but looking for an even better August.
1:08.0	Let's do it.
1:09.0	Yeah, and this was, as we noted last time,
1:12.0	the episode that got pushed because there's a twas a little bit of news last week. Can you believe it's been one week, man? It's been one, one calendar week, one fiscal, I was going to say metric week, but we don't use the metric system.
1:30.9	So it's one metric presidential campaign.
1:33.0	Yeah, since, yeah, since Biden dropped out, it really feels like it's been months.
1:38.5	It really does, it's crazy.
1:40.7	But anyway, not talking about that today, That pushed off this episode, but I am so excited to finally get to this one because
1:47.1	this is really fascinating.
1:49.2	Perhaps a wee bit inspired by current trials that we've talked about.
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