![]() ![]() The history that’s been made in California today will help pave the way forward in the fight to protect creative freedom nationwide. “Silencing any genre or form of artistic expression is a violation against all music people. “Today we celebrate an important victory for music creators in the state of California,” Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. Related video: Stacey Abrams on whether rap lyrics should be used as evidence in court ![]() Rappers’ Own Lyrics Are Putting Them in Jail – Now the Music Industry Is Fighting BackĪnd Newsom’s office on Friday shared in a tweet that rappers such as YG, Killer Mike, Ty Dolla Sign, Tyga, Meek Mill, E-40 and Too Short all threw their weight behind the legislation.ĪB 2799 is not expressly limited to rap lyrics and instead encompasses creative expression more broadly, which is defined in the bill as “forms, sounds, words, movements or symbols.” But the California bill invokes other social science research about racial bias and would require a judge when considering accepting something like lyrics as evidence to weigh the “probative value of that evidence against the substantial danger of undue prejudice.” It would also past testimony and instances in which creative expression was admitted as evidence. ![]() The music industry has thrown their weight behind AB 2799 specifically, with the major labels all endorsing it and with RIAA CEO and Chairman Mitch Glazier writing a letter to the California Assembly urging its passage. The legislation follows a similar bill in New York that ultimately failed after passing the New York Senate, as well as the federal RAP Act that was introduced in Congress last month. ![]() Gavin Newsom signed into law on Friday the state’s “rap lyrics” bill that would limit the admissibility of “creative content” as evidence in criminal or civil proceedings against an artist or musician in the state, meaning that rappers’ lyrics cannot be used against them as evidence.ĪB 2799 - or The Decriminalizing Artistic Expression Act - is the first of its kind in the country and comes in response to rappers such as Young Thug, Gunna and many others who in recent months and years have been indicted and seen prosecutors controversially use lyrics from their music as evidence against them. 0.5 Sampling (music) 0.5 Warner Music Group 0.5 Verse–chorus form 0.5 RIAA certification 0.California Gov. This song also talks about other women that have /14245756/Lil-uzi-vert-20-min/I-am-not-slow-these-girls-just-want-me-cause-i-got-the-dough /17244798/Lil-uzi-vert-20-min/Cuban-link-tri-color-all-on-my-choker-skrrt /13078426/Lil-uzi-vert-20-min/Money-so-long-like-accordion /22830145/Lil-uzi-vert-20-min/I-am-so-clean-i-might-start-movin-soap /16075349/Lil-uzi-vert-20-min/I-said-girl-why-you-keep-callin-i-said-girl-why-you-keep-callin-yeah-she-said-i-need-a-new-whip-yeah-cause-i-know-that-you-still-ballin /16069909/Lil-uzi-vert-20-min/Im-on-that-tree-like-an-ornament /13524836/Lil-uzi-vert-20-min/Ice-is-so-cold-i-snowboard-in-it /13118670/Lil-uzi-vert-20-min/I-understand-that-is-your-girlfriend-bro-but-you-know-i-gotta-keep-her-close /13115410/Lil-uzi-vert-20-min/I-put-a-coat-on-top-of-my-coat Lyrics 5.6 Lil Uzi Vert 4.6 Luv Is Rage 2 3.4 Yeah! (Usher song) 3.3 Song 2.5 Genius (website) 2.4 Song structure 1.6 2 (Netsky album) 1.4 Here (Alessia Cara song) 1.3 Refrain 1.2 Brittany Pierce 1.2 Damn (Kendrick Lamar album) 0.9 Target Corporation 0.8 Singing 0.6 Invincible (Kelly Clarkson song) 0.6 Honorable C.N.O.T.E. Here Uzi w u s describes the first time he met his ex-girlfriend, Brittany Byrd. Lil Uzi Vert 20 Min Min is the last track of Luv Is Rage 2 Deluxe. Lil Uzi Vert – 20 Min /Lil-uzi-vert-20-min-lyrics ![]()
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