
Remember when The Chicks (previously known as the Dixie Chicks) were indicted for killing ‘Earl’ after they admitted to poisoning him in their song “Goodbye Earl”? What about Johnny Cash being convicted for shooting a man in Reno, something he confessed to in “Folson Prison Blues”? If your memory is failing you, it’s because those violent lyrics weren’t used against those artists; instead, it was universally understood the lyrics were part of the art, persona, and hyperbolic creative expression of The Chicks and Cash. But in his criminal proceedings, prosecutors are using Grammy award-winning rapper Young Thug’s lyrics to support… Read more