If You Shoot My Dog, I’ma Kill Yo’ Cat
An Enquiry into the Principles of Hip-Hop Law
This article investigates how the law is perceived in hip-hop music. Lawyers solve concrete legal problems on basis of certain presuppositions about morality, legality and justice that are not always shared by non-lawyers. This is why a thriving part of academic scholarship deals with what we can learn about laymen’s perceptions of law from studying novels (law and literature) or other types of popular culture. This article offers an inventory and analysis of how the law is perceived in a representative sample of hip-hop lyrics from 5 US artists (Eminem, 50 Cent, Dr. Dre, Ludacris and Jay-Z) and 6 UK artists (Ms. Dynamite, Dizzee Rascal, Plan B, Tinie Tempah, Professor Green and N-Dubz).
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