Was Laughing Stock the ultimate in self-snitching and is it fair for jury to hear rap lyrics?
Trial of drill artist Kay-O
Last week a popular British drill rapper, Kay-O, was jailed for life for murder and told he would not be released for 37 years.
At the centre of the case was a drill song, Laughing Stock, uploaded to YouTube 20 days after the murder, in which Kay-O (pictured) included details in the lyrics which the prosecutor said only the killers would have known.
In today’s Substack I tell the full story in detail and discuss the issue of whether rap lyrics should be used as evidence with two experts.
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