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JACQUES: Your Miranda rights begin with, "You have the right to remain silent" but for

many rappers, that right is already lost.

ANCHOR: A San Diego prosecutor says we're not just talking about a CD of anything,

of love songs, one of the lyrics is putting a gun to your head with no safety.

ANCHOR: The detective zeroed in on Steward's rap lyrics.

ANCHOR: Facing a lifetime behind bars for cutting a rap album.

JACQUES: In 2010, Boosie Badazz was indicted for 1st degree murder and prosecutors built

a case against him using his rap lyrics.

ANCHOR: Prosecutors say specific Boosie lyrics equal intent, defense attorneys say it's

just a rapper doing his job.'

JACQUES: Boosie benefitted from his fame and great representation and went on to be acquitted in 2012.

But many smaller artists aren't so lucky.

JACQUES: For example, a judge doubled Dallas rapper YNB NyNizzle's 6 year sentence for

distributing cocaine after citing lyrics from his song, "Tru Gizzle," saying the lines

matched up with a separate crime that

NyNizzle was suspected of, but never charged with, for ambush robbery where a victim was shot.

Yet these bars, having nothing to do with his original drug case, still affected his prison time.

PROF. DENNIS: Most of these are just average, ordinary young black or Latino men.

JACQUES: That's Andrea Dennis, a University of Georgia law professor and the author of

a 2007 study on the practice of rap lyrics in court cases.

In it she found that quote:

PROF: These are cases that may include charges of homicide, assault, drug distribution, threats

or intimidation.

JACQUES: Prosecutors can use lyrics to paint a picture of the defendant and play to jurors' prejudices.

PROF: This notion that black men are aggressive and dangerous and hyper-masculine and,

in short, criminals, bad men.

JACQUES: In NyNizzle's case, the judge told him that he was quote "bragging" about

killing someone even though it was just a rap lyric.

This, too, falls into a pattern of using racial stereotypes against rappers,

like in the Vonte Skinner case in 2008.

ANCHOR: Prosecutors read 13 pages of Skinner's violent, graphic rap lyrics.

These were lyrics that had been written months and years before the shooting,

prosecutors read them to show Skinner's alleged propensity for violence.

JACQUES: However, hip-hop often relies on bravado, storytelling and exaggeration,

making lyrical evidence questionable at best.

Take Rick Ross for example.

JACQUES: Rick Ross has never met the late Panamanian leader, Manuel Noriega,

saying in a 2006 interview, quote:

JACQUES: At times, but of course not in all cases,

hip-hop can be more like the WWE... than the UFC.

PROF: It is very much an industry expectation that the artist is at least trying to maintain

an appearance of keeping it real.

JACQUES: This disconnect is what causes us to look at the following lyrics differently.

JACQUES: Both J. Cole and the late Johnny Cash are telling stories about murder yet

Cole is probably more likely to have the lyrics used against him in court because hip-hop

doesn't get the same level of artistic license as other genres.

PROF: I think some people just take the position, they're just rhymed words over a beat.

ANCHOR: Three specific words are what prosecutors hope will link Torrence Hatch to the alleged

killing of Terry Boyd.

Those words include 187, murk and cake.

JACQUES: Even when the lyrics seemingly line up to the crime it's not so clear cut.

For example, Rapper Tay-K awaits trial in Texas on two capital murder charges.

JACQUES: The judge cited his song, "The Race," recorded and released while on the

run from these charges, as a partial reason for denying him bail and it may not stop there.

PROF: I wouldn't be surprised if the prosecutor tries to argue that this song is actually

an admission or confession to having engaged in particular conduct.

JACQUES: Prosecutors often use police officers to explain the lyrics to juries.

ANCHOR: Prosecutor Dana Cummings presented a Baton Rouge police detective who said the words

"187" and "murk" mean murder, and the word "cake" means money.

JACQUES: Andrea tells us this isn't the right approach because cops can lack the necessary

context needed to adequately explain these lyrics.

PROF: They're just saying these are lyrical representations of true life.

INTERVIEWER: So if that song is just a story a made up story, why do you write a story

like that?

ANTWAIN: That's my lane.

I'm in the lane of hardcore rap. That's just what it is.

JACQUES: Your Miranda rights end with, "Anything you say can and will be used against you"

and for rappers like the aforementioned Twain Gotti, Boosie, NyNizzle and many many others,

that couldn't be truer.

I'm Jacques Morel with Genius News, bringing you the meaning and the knowledge behind the music.

Peace!

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Will Fox News Ever Turn On Trump? - Duration: 9:23.

Our next question comes from @Question0786.

Perfect handle for question asking, I guess.

Their question is, "Do you think there will ever come a time where Fox News will eventually

just say to themselves, 'Screw it,' and start criticizing Trump in front of their Trump-supporting

viewers without fearing Trump's backlash?"

No.

I don't.

I don't think they will ever hit that point.

Fox News, even during the Bush administration, okay, when it was pretty obvious this administration

was committing war crimes by torturing detainees, when all those pictures from Abu Ghraib came

out, they defended it.

They were out there telling us that this was okay, even though it was an obvious violation

of international treaties, and international laws, and we were 100% without question committing

war crimes.

They still defended it, trying to say, "But it doesn't matter, because they're the bad

guys."

"Oh, waterboarding's not that bad.

It's not even really torture."

Will they ever hit that point with Donald Trump where they finally say, "Wow.

This guy's a nut job.

He's not very smart.

He's not very good at being president.

He wasn't a good businessman.

We were wrong about it all"?

It's not gonna happen.

Even if we get the special prosecutor's report, and it proves without a doubt that Donald

Trump committed a conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States and undermine

our electoral process, even if there's irrefutable evidence, Fox News is gonna start saying,

"Whoa.

Isn't that really no big deal?"

If they impeach Donald Trump, that's going to embolden Fox News.

They're gonna go out there and they will be talking about that until the end of time.

They're gonna talk about how the Democrats only did it as a political move.

"They were so anti-Trump, suffering from Trump derangement syndrome, that they had to impeach

him because he was hurting their feelings."

That is exactly what this network is going to say.

I don't see a turnaround point.

I don't think there's anything Donald Trump could do that would make these Republicans

turn on him at Fox News.

He could probably walk into Fox News, to take a variation of his own speech he gave during

the campaign, he could walk into Fox News, punch Steve Doocy in the face, and Steve Doocy

would then probably apologize for having such a punchable face.

That's how beholden they are to him.

That's how much they're willing to defend him.

There's nothing this man can do to make them turn on him, so our option is to simply turn

them off.

That is the best way to fight back against Fox News.

They're 100% dependent upon viewers.

You starve them of that viewership, you starve them of their life as a network.

I don't waste too much time worrying about what the crazies over there at Fox News say.

Oh, their highest rated host can pull in two million viewers a night.

That's a lot, especially compared to the other folks.

But there's 330 million people in this country.

Two million a night really isn't influencing as many as they like to think that they're

influencing.

Again, if you have a question for us, please send it using the hashtag #AskROF.

You can also send it to us on Twitter @RingofFireRadio or you can send it to me, @FarronBalanced.

Now, in answering that question, I hit on the Mueller investigation.

You know, no matter what they find, Fox News is always gonna try to find a way to act like

it's not a big deal.

Well, Donald Trump right now, this week in fact, has entered phase two of his attacks

on the special prosecutor and the investigation.

On Monday of this week, Donald Trump, his administration, they announced that they were

going to declassify all of the information related to the FISA warrant for surveillance

on Carter Page, and they were gonna release it to the public.

In addition to that Carter Page FISA information, they also decided they were gonna release

the text messages between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, which have no bearing on anything

at all, but they're gonna release them, and they're gonna release the interviews conducted

by Bruce Ohr, because Bruce Ohr is now Donald Trump's favorite target in the Department

of Justice, and so he wants to undermine, demean, and discredit that guy as well.

With regards to the Carter Page thing, what they're hoping to prove with the release of

these documents is that the entire investigation was based on what they call the discredited

dossier, and therefore the entire Mueller investigation is null and void.

"Big witch hunt, illegally started, nothing to see here.

Let's move on.

Let's fire Robert Mueller, and while we're at it, most likely fire Jeff Sessions as well."

Here's the problem they have with that.

First and foremost, we learned from the Devin Nunes memo itself that the investigation,

the surveillance on Carter Page, was not started based on anything in that Steele Dossier.

That was not the reasoning used.

That was not the argument made to the FISA court that surveillance needed to be placed

on Carter Page.

That's a lie.

If the administration wants to release that, aside from it being a major national security

problem for them, it's not gonna say what they think it's going to say.

Furthermore, while we're mentioning the dossier, can anybody tell me, maybe tweet it to me,

perhaps email it to me, any piece of the dossier that's been proven false?

Because right now, you can't.

Even though we know for a fact that this investigation, the surveillance, the warrants, all that,

none of it was started because of the dossier, even if it had been started because of the

dossier, none of it's been proven false.

In fact, most of it, at this point, has actually been proven true.

What's the problem?

Does it matter who paid for it?

Because it was first started, as we all know, by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative

outlet.

Then it was paid for by the Democratic Party.

Actually Hillary Clinton's law firm.

Then, after they stopped paying for it, it was self-financed.

There's three different independent groups that funded it, but none of the information

has been proven false.

So why does it matter if it was based on that or not, even though it wasn't?

But to kind of hit back on the national security issue, this is something a lot of people have

been saying, is the fact that if you release these FISA warrants, and the information that

was given to the FISA court, it's gonna reveal a lot of sources.

You know, undercover sources within the Department of Justice, the independent sources overseas,

people who have risked their lives to give this information, so yeah, you could be looking

at a very intense national security problem in that regard.

My solution to that is, redact the names, make sure you don't release who did what,

but I'm all for actually releasing the information to the world.

Let them understand that you've been lying from day one, because what's come out from

it so far proves you wrong, so it's not gonna end the way you think it is, with that.

But here's where they're trying to get us, is with the text messages from Page and Strzok.

That is the meat that they want us to see, and that is something we have no business

seeing whatsoever.

They're gonna use those text messages to prove that this entire investigation has been politically

motivated and is therefore void, that nothing they do matters, because they were politically

motivated.

Again, from the Nunes memo, we know that's not true.

We know that's not the case, but the brain dead, MAGA hat wearing crowd doesn't understand

that, and they will never accept that.

They want to see these juicy text messages and find out what's been going on.

It's not gonna reveal what they think it's gonna reveal.

They're hoping it's gonna be enough to convince enough people that Robert Mueller should be

fired, and that Jeff Sessions should be fired, but again, probably not gonna work out the

way that they think it is.

Bruce Ohr, who's also a target of this, has already been thoroughly vetted.

We understand that this guy has not done anything wrong.

We know the protocols he went through to give this information to the people who needed

to receive it.

He did not personally act on any of it, so there's that.

But this is all an excuse to further lay the groundwork to end the special prosecutor's

investigation.

We have to take a break.

We'll be right back.

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Nicole Kidman to Receive Career Achievement Award | THR News - Duration: 2:03.

The 2018 Hollywood Film Awards will take place on Nov. 4 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel

in Los Angeles where Nicole Kidman will receive the Hollywood Career Achievement

Award. The HFA has chosen to honor Kidman for her diverse resume of acting roles,

ranging from Baz Luhrmann's 'Moulin Rouge!'

to Garth Davis' 'Lion,'

as well as for her work spotlighting independent, female filmmakers through

her production company Blossom Films. The Aussie actress has scored four Oscar

nominations throughout her decades-long career, with one best actress win for

2010's 'Rabbit Hole.'

She has also been nominated for 11 Golden Globe awards, winning four, for

'To Die For,' 'Moulin Rouge!,' 'The Hours and Big Little Lies.' Her credits at Blossom Films

include 'Big Little Lies,' for which she won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for portraying

a victim of domestic violence.

The HBO series, which also stars Shailene Woodley, Reese Witherspoon, Zoe Kravitz

and Meryl Streep, recently began production on its second season.

In 2017 four of Kidman's projects debuted at Cannes Film Festival, including Jane

Campion's 'Top of the Lake: China Girl,' Yorgos Lanthimos' 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer,'

Sofia Coppola's 'The Beguiled' and John Cameron Mitchell's 'How to Talk to

Girls at Parties.' Kidman will next be seen alongside Russell Crowe, Joel Edgerton

and Lucas Hedges in 'Boy Erased,' which hits theaters Nov. 2.

The Hollywood Film Awards span multiple categories spotlighting cinematography,

visual effects, film composing, costume design, editing and more. Additional winners

will be announced in the coming weeks.

To read more on this story, head to THR.com.

For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.