Can rap lyrics about crime and bad acts be considered fictional accounts?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Coneal, 254 Cal.Rptr.3d 653, 41 Cal.App.5th 951 (Cal. App. 2019):
State v. Skinner (2014) 218 N.J. 496, 95 A.3d 236, 251 [where "there was no evidence that the crimes and bad acts about which defendant wrote in rap form were crimes or bad acts that he in fact had committed ... [, t]he
[254 Cal.Rptr.3d 667]
lyrics can only be regarded as fictional accounts"].)16
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