The Complex Intersection Where Rap and the Legal System Collide

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The New York Times

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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A conversation with a criminal lawyer about the racial politics of legal representation, the Meek Mill saga and the future prospects of incarcerated would-be stars.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the New York Times pop cast
0:09.8	your constantly evolving subscribers only playlist of music news and criticism.
0:14.6	I'm your host Joe Cos with a blun of paint
0:23.0	No bag cakes just a cup of soap
0:26.0	Bacon soda pot and a silver fork
0:29.0	You already know it's trying to go to work.
0:33.0	I'm back off in the kitchen working with a chicken.
0:36.0	You get 63 grams for like 12.50.
0:40.0	50 pounds of per 50 pounds of midget.
0:42.0	As soon as it's going to sell them no. 50 pounds of per, 50 pounds of midget,
0:43.0	as soon as it's gonna sell another 60.
0:46.0	My baby needs some shoes, my IT need a burst.
0:49.0	Some are coming real soon, so I need a verb.
0:52.0	I hop up out that van with that duffer. That of course was Gucci man and
0:55.0	Hop up about that van with that duffel bag
0:59.0	And if I try me I'm a bus's ass
1:01.0	I'm counting up money in the That of course was Gucciman and Zay Tovin's first day out from the writing on the wall
1:06.7	mixtape.
1:08.4	I'm joined today by Kenneth J Montgomery, Brooklyn, criminal defense attorney and civil rights litigator, deeply
1:14.9	interesting man with a few lifetimes of experiences in New York, in the courtroom, and in and around
1:21.1	the music business.
1:22.1	Ken, how you doing?
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