Jamal Knox, a. Mayhem Mal, was convicted of terroristic threats and witness intimidation over lyrics he rapped in a hip-hop song. In April, the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal. But last week, a very different Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of Jamal Knox, a Pittsburgh rapper sentenced to two to six years in prison for his lyrics. Knox, who performs under the name Mayhem Mal, was convicted in on two counts of terroristic threats and two counts of witness intimidation for his rhymes on " Fuck the Police. The prosecution focused on lines delivered by Knox that named the arresting officers, and those that it viewed as true threats of violence, including:. United States. In Watts , the court found a draft protester's rallying cry that, were he ever inducted into the army, "the first man I want to get in my sights is LBJ" to be political hyperbole: Within the context it was delivered, it was not a true threat and thus was protected speech. In its opinion affirming the trial court's decision in the Knox case, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied the rapper any artistic imprimatur, declaring that his lyrics were real threats of violence because they supposedly did not include "political, social, or academic commentary, nor are they facially satirical or ironic.


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In , the Gangsta Rapper is an endangered, almost extinct, species. Dre makes hundreds of millions more from headphones than gangsta rap ever brought him. Ice-T has been playing a cop on TV for close to 20 years. Ice Cube spearheads the Barbershop franchise and makes movies with Kevin Hart. Snoop Dogg released a gospel album earlier this year. Occasionally guys like YG and Nipsey Hussle, both of the gangsta lineage, come along and drop a dope album, and The Game still releases quality product. But these days, the gangsta rapper has been all but replaced by the morose drug addict, more concerned with popping pills and being emo than making their audience witness the strength of street knowledge. Sickinnahead was one of the last albums of its kind: the diary of a Los Angeles street soldier. And he definitely lived what he rapped.
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Death Threat is a hip-hop group who pioneered [ citation needed ] the gangsta rap subgenre in the Philippines. Beware left the Philippines after the release of the album, and the group became the duo of Hi-Jakkk and Gloc-9, and released the third album Kings of da Undaground in The album received 4x Platinum Certificate Award despite of having no mainstream promotion and by only word of mouth in the streets. Gerald "Genezide" Acelajado became a born-again pastor.