Bronx rapper Fat Joe is setting the record straight about his music. During an interview with Gayle King on CNN, he revealed that he’s lied in “95 percent” of his rap song lyrics throughout his career thus far. He shared the surprising fact while discussing lyrics being used as evidence in the ongoing YSL RICO case involving Atlanta rapper Young Thug.
“I’ve been rapping professionally for 30 years…I’ve lied in almost 95 percent of my songs…I’m being honest. I write like I feel that day, I’m just being creative. You couldn’t build a jail high enough for the lyrics I’ve said on songs which are all untrue,” Joe said.
He continued saying, “What I am is a family man–the person who gives back to my community all the time, opens businesses in my community. So the music would never amount to the actual person, Joseph Cartagena.”
According to WSB-TV, Judge Ural Glanville ruled that song lyrics will be allowed as evidence under certain conditions in the Young Slime Life RICO trial. As such, Glanville conditionally admitted 17 sets of lyrics that prosecutors can use as evidence against Young Thug and his five co-defendants. The judge agreed that prosecutors must lay a foundation in order to use the lyrics.
During his appearance on CNN, Fat Joe said about the ruling, “What’s even more horrible is that the district attorneys, they know those lyrics ain’t real. They know that’s creativity but if it helps their case, they’ll use it to put these guys in jail.
He added, “And here we’re having a fun show about it and discussion, but there really is six defendants in Atlanta who might spend the rest of their lives in jail for something that’s totally not true. This is very serious. This destroys families.”
Joe additionally warned that the YSL RICO case set the tone for a very worrisome trend for future cases involving rappers, being that Young Thug is the first of his status to have his lyrics used against him in court.
“This case right here is setting such a precedence in America because they’ve used this before in up-and-coming, aspiring artists. They’ve never took a guy off the stage in the arena,” the concerned musician said.“You know, a No. 1 artist that my daughter and all the kids look up to and say, ‘No, you going on trial for this.’ It’s nasty work, it’s real nasty work.”
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