'As We Speak': Rap Music on Trial' Review: Weaponizing Lyrics in Court
Imagine music that you wrote being held against you in a criminal proceeding. In the documentary “As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial,” the Bronx-born rapper…
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Imagine music that you wrote being held against you in a criminal proceeding. In the documentary “As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial,” the Bronx-born rapper…
"As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial" is a new Paramount+ documentary on the fight over rap lyrics being used in criminal trials in the U.S.
Wayne Benjamin Jr. just needed a job.
A didactic documentary about the criminalization of rap lyrics is never as deep or insightful as you'd like it to be. Our As We Speak review:
In 'As We Speak,' hip-hop artist Kemba and director J.M. Harper take viewers on a journey of the ways rap lyrics have been weaponized in the courts.