Lyrics Used as Evidence in Trial Lyrics

Yo, look in my eyes. You can see death comin' quick.
Look in my palms, you can see what I'm gunnin' with.
I play no games when it comes to this war shit.
If death was a jacket, you would see how the floor fits.
Crackin' your chest when I show you how the force spits,
Makin' your mother wish she would have had an abortion.

But these [people] keep testin' my weapons.
I hold my head just to keep from stressin';
Got Beef, I can spit from a distance for instance;
A [person] wouldn't listen so I hit him with the Smithen;
Hauled off 15 rounds, seven missed him;
Two to the mask and six to the ribs, lifted and flipped him.
The safe street squad found him, half his shell missin.
I play my position, fall back and watch [people] keep my enemies real.
Close to my twin bitches, hollow heads in the back of they throats mercury drippin'.
They spit sickness, poison a [person] right when they clip him.
They don't call me Threat for nothin', so pay attention.

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Beginning the week of January 20, 2014, the New Jersey Supreme Court will hear the case of Vonte Skinner, whose attempted murder conviction in 2008 was predicated on the defendant’s rap lyrics, which describe violent acts.

The lyrics were written before the shooting in question (some being composed years earlier).

Skinner’s conviction, since overturned by an appellate court, brings a 30-year sentence.

Shouts to the New York Times, Dr. Erik Nielson, and Dr. Charis Kubrin.

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