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"

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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!!