{"id":606398,"date":"2024-01-28T03:04:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T00:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-when-artistic-expression-is-wielded-as-evidence\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T03:04:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T00:04:37","slug":"watch-when-artistic-expression-is-wielded-as-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-when-artistic-expression-is-wielded-as-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch When Artistic Expression Is Wielded as Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2fd9fc48e03\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2fd9fc48e03\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-when-artistic-expression-is-wielded-as-evidence\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_When_Artistic_Expression_Is_Wielded_as_Evidence%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online When Artistic Expression Is Wielded as Evidence&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-when-artistic-expression-is-wielded-as-evidence\/#%E2%80%9CWhen_Artistic_Expression_Is_Wielded_as_Evidence%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;When Artistic Expression Is Wielded as Evidence&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_When_Artistic_Expression_Is_Wielded_as_Evidence%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online When Artistic Expression Is Wielded as Evidence&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhen_Artistic_Expression_Is_Wielded_as_Evidence%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;When Artistic Expression Is Wielded as Evidence&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    With its academic interviewees and mini-histories, J.M. Harper\u2019s directorial debut \u201cAs We Speak,\u201d about the weaponizing of rap lyrics in the courts, has the tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ings of rigor. But not unlike its subject, the documentary\u2019s power, beauty and complexity lie in Harper\u2019s use of rhetoric and lyricism. The film editor of the Emmy-nominated <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> \u201cJeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy\u201d has made a willfully creative work that mimics the ways rap can be intimately observational, seemingly confessional even, but is also a feat of artistic expression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The hip-hop artist and Bronx native Kemba acts as a guide and a character for \u201cAs We Speak,\u201d which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. Utilizing Erik Nielson and Andrea Dennis\u2019s book \u201cRap on Trial: Race, Lyrics and Guilt in America,\u201d the film follows Kemba as he crisscrosses the nation to speak with fellow artists and then leaps the Atlantic to the U.K.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For 50 years, hip-hop has shifted American and global culture. It has moved and challenged fans and critics alike to tussle with its intimate dance of life and art, the streets and the imagination. It can be political speech. It can be personal speech. It is often both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Kemba and Harper don\u2019t need to argue much that the musical genre\u2019s nuance, metaphors and craft are of little interest to a legal system that continues to be tainted by racism and leverages bias. Using the lyrics defendants wrote, quote or listen to has become a way to up prosecutors\u2019 conviction rate against young black defendants.<br \/>The documentary\u2019s host of persuasive experts on legal and constitutional matters include USC law professor Jody Armour, MSNBC legal <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> analyst Ari Melber and defense attorney John Hamasaki. Nielson provides even more context. Academic Alan Dunbar conducted an experiment in which participants read lyrics from the 1960s folk song \u201cBad Man\u2019s Blunder.\u201d (\u201cWell, early one evening I was rollin\u2019 around \/ I was feelin\u2019 kind of mean, I shot a deputy down\u2026\u201d) But they were told that the genre was either rap, country or heavy metal and asked to make certain judgments about the lyrics and the person who wrote them. The outcomes were conclusive about rap and bias. But it\u2019s Harper\u2019s visualizing of Dunbar\u2019s study \u2014 a long-haired white man with a pool cue, a white woman wearing a cowgirl get-up in front of a microphone and a Black man seated in front of a white screen reading the same lyrics \u2014 that is worth the price of the ticket.<br \/>Stops along the way include Atlanta, where Kemba talks with Killer Mike about the healing the rapper found in writing about his community during the crack epidemic. In New Orleans, Mac Phipps (worthy of his own documentary) discusses his decades-long imprisonment for a crime he did not commit based on lyrics from two different songs, spliced together by the prosecution. Kemba heads to Los Angeles and then to Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In both LA and Chicago, the twining of gangs and gun violence with the artists who wrought new forms of expression from those realities \u2014 hardcore and drill \u2014 may get stickier. In London, Kemba learns from female artist Lavida Loca how the U.K.\u2019s culture of police surveillance only adds to the rappers\u2019 burdens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Criminal defense attorney Alexandra Kazarian brings pivotal \u2014 and performative \u2014 expertise to the film. Kemba listens intently as the Los Angeles lawyer walks him through why it\u2019s so easy for prosecutors to use lyrics against defendants. It doesn\u2019t have to do with the lyrics but with the economics of the courts. \u201cWhy do people plea? \u2026 Because they don\u2019t trust the system,\u201d she says as the two of them look through a picture window upon staged court proceedings. And because the services she provides cost around $150 grand. Is it better to take a chance with juries and being represented by an overworked, underpaid public defender or plead out?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In a final scene, Kemba sits beside that harried defender of Kazarian\u2019s mock-court supposition having decided to stand up for his rights. He gazes into the camera as it moves in with a \u201cwhat do you think is gonna happen?\u201d look. Thanks to \u201cAs We Speak,\u201d we have a pretty good and damning idea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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