RAP ON TRIAL: RACE, LYRICS, AND GUILT IN AMERICA Social Situations 1st Edition (June 18

1st Edition (June 18

He opened his first jazz record store

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Chocolate City tells the tumultuous

RAP ON TRIAL: RACE, LYRICS, AND GUILT IN AMERICA Social Situations 1st Edition (June 18Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"? Few would seriously subscribe to this notion of justice. Yet in 2001, a rapper named Mac whose music had gained national recognition was convicted of manslaughter after the prosecutor quoted liberally from his album Shell Shocked. Mac was sentenced to thirty years in prison, where he remains. And his case is just one of many nationwide. Over