If you rap, you should read this: Can your rhymes get you locked up?
 

If an emcee got on the mic and spit a rhyme about how he sayy............sells crack or something, that in it self isn't enough to charge anyone with anythin, BUT!!! Believe it or not, there is now a veeerrrrrry small sub division of the FBI that listens to the tracks of mainstream emcees and does a 'soft investigation' which means they actually issue an agent to look into the validity of such statements. They'll do a tax claims check, view your credit history (almost liek an IRS issued audit would) and big purchases and things liek that and look for unclaimed income that could point to narcotics sales. If they find anything, they do an official investigation which could include phone taps, raids with warrants, search and seizure, etc. Yeah, this is the age we live in. The gov't dosen't play man. Tell a friend.


Oh BTW, before I forget again, this is exactly how rapper John Forté that used to run alongside the fugees got popped. Intercepted a deliv at an airport if I remember correctly of a large amount of crack.

crazyness, whered u find out about this?

Lol.. I dont air out dirty laundry in my raps..

SO I guess I could give less than a fuck if some g men start listening to my tracks..

U can certainly be investigated based on what u say...saying it doesn't prove it

but let's say u start braggin that "The IRS can even Kiss my ass"

^^MHUH
MUHUAHAUH
MUAHUAHUAHUAHUAH
MUHAUHAUAHUAHUAHUAHUAHUAH


They will BURY ur ass UNDER the prison for tax evasion

It was the IRS that brought down Al Capone


So, I'd def. be careful with what I boasted about, especially if it's true

I read it once before in a book about the music industry and I brought it up because Ox had mentioned something about it. Matter fact, it said that both biggie AND pac were under such an investigation at the time of their deaths. Even some members of Wu ended up getting investigated for illegal shit.

Here's a link I googled. It's in the paragraph that's next to their pictures. It's actaulyl a pretty good article if you're intersted in the murders of biggie or pac: http://www.finalcall.com/artman/pub...icle_2114.shtml

meh...you can get put away nowadays for such trivial shit...kinda throws freedom of speech out the window really

hmm...i doubt every rapper. im pretty sure they have better things to do then to investigate shit they dont even know. Besides.. theres alot of rappers in this world. there must be alot of FBI agents.

but blah, what do i know.

maybe your super-ill reading skills is what caused you to miss the part where I said "Mainstream Rappers". And the FBI only has precidence in the US, so who cares how many rappers there are in The World when its' completely irrelevant?

But what do I know. smhh.....Reading is fundamental.

^^^^^ u just have to make the evidence of his lyrics "relevant" to the case against him

oh, shit!!! damn, that's fucked yo.


i wonder if I rapped about skippin' like 70 classes in high school, if it would get me multiple detentions and suspensions. :shocked: word :cool:

Da Bigger U Are In Hip Hop & Da More Popular U Are Da Less Chance U Got Of Ur Rhymez Gettin U Locked Up!!

so is spelling...

it's Precedence.


:thumbup:

Lol I'ma fuck around with them. "I knocked down the towers and cooked up anthrax". But that shit is bogus as shit. Freedom of speech is literally gone. But who cares right? Its only the hip hop community. So watch out of some random girl comes and accuses you of rape and you got a little of mistikal's style in you.

No...I will not


Dooms comes off like a know-it-all and yet doesn't know how to spell precedence


of course he'll cite typographical error...however, it really isn't

a typo would be teh for the


spelling precedence with an "I" when the "I" is nowhere near the "E" on a keyboard is plumb dumb

just as I know he is.


:thumbup:

LMFAO

hmmmm, so, u sayin its a bad idea 2 make tha song im werkin on about how scott peterson iz innocent cuz im tha 1 that really murederd lacy?

ahhh fuck it, werd

its not really goin against freedom of speech
by that statement, a criminal who confesses to a crime cudnt be convicted cause of free speech

I orignially had a response here, but then realized that I could sum it all up by saying "read my sig". You spend WAY too mcuh time sweating me son. LOOK!! A TYPO!


Oh yeah, KSR - you're absolutely right.

I talk about my life and shit in my raps and on rv.
I've prolly told only 2 or 3 people on the net that I've sold drugs.
Thats just stupid, thats how you get indicted.

I apreciate this thread and good lookin out, but I think its very wrong, music is a way for us rappers for freedom of speech, we still have that right dont we?

he's not saying you dont have freedom of speech.
You can rap about anything you want, just about.
But just becareful what you say, because the fans ARE listening.

yeah, like Willy said. You can say what ever you want to - just that people are going to react, lol.

dont call me Willy.
:cussing:

*starts talking shit about the IRS on every song*

u aint big time yet


when u start addin more commas in ya funds, then try that shit

bro, your name sounds rediculous without the Y on it. Will S. Un-yoo?? WTF IS THAT!!! put the Y back man, cuz that shit is cheesy as hell as it is.



















































































Willy... :evil:

ummmmmm

naaaahhhhhh

i was kiddin lol

BANNED!































Will
S.
Unyu
the s is for shit.
Will Shit Un You

lol @ "Banned". Aint heard it used like that on a message board in a MINUTE son. But as for your name, you gotta devise a way to make it work mang, cuz if you never told me, I'd have NEVER guessed. Maybe... Will I. Dissue or maybe the über-ganster "Will I. Kissyu".

its Will S.Unyu.
bottomline.

That shits' wiggedy, B. But it's your call, lol. Shit was way better before.

what you mean waay better before?
this the only variation of this name I have.
lol

maybe I smoked enough weed to halloucinate a "y" at the end of your name. Oh shit! I just realised that it's almost 7pm here. Time for me to not give a flying fuck either way.

A period does matter.


If someone ignores it, then they are careless.

Vivica A. Fox


You don't pronounce it, Vivica AFUCKS


So...It doesn't make sense.

UNYU

^^????



pssf