you’ll be surprised (or, perhaps, very unsurprised) to learn that yes, you can be imprisoned based off of lyrics, and that the use of lyrics to imprison people is almost exclusively something that happens to rappers. there’s an effort to change this as mentioned by the article which is working its way through Congress right now, but i’m not sure how likely it is to pass.
I sense some racism here.
So, all the rappers mentioned have made songs about killing people. They’re surprised when they write, “fiction,” then a crime matching their fiction happens near them and they’re implicated?
I’m not saying the system isn’t racist, but maybe don’t write songs about much of a killer you are if you don’t want to be suspected of being a killer when someone gets killed near you.
There was a heavy metal artist, who kinda had his face painted like those KISS people. He had a song where he weirdly described a death that happened at Cecile Hotel (a Netflix documentary exists about this).
Now this face-painted monster was his entire internet personality. And he had to come with his real face and apologize to everyone saying he was in no way connected to the crime!