So I have to say I’ll kill you . . . in a song: The fine art of threatening to blow someone’s head off.
Here’s an example of screwed-up people trying to drag others into their quagmire of moral confusion. A high school student in Mississippi was suspended after he recorded and posted on FB a song that “threatened two named educators with gun-related violence” – a fact the kid has stipulated to. Now, it shouldn’t matter whether the kid’s threat was gun-related or not; the kid deserved some serious consequences for this. However, the school district, probably feeling sheepish about the “two named educators” and what they did to deserve such a rap, let the kid off with a suspension, and no harassment or menacing charges were filed. And now the kid and his mom are suing to have even the suspension removed from the record. And that suit may end up before the Supreme Court.
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And the basis for the suit? The kid’s lawyer is claiming that a hip-hop song threatening to stick a gun down your coach’s mouth is a form of artistic expression, no worse than say, Bob Marley singing about shooting some unnamed deputy or other in self-defense or Johnny Cash offing someone on the cruel streets of Reno “just to watch him die.”
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Oh yeah. I can definitely see that.