well in this instance jamal knox and his lawyers have articulated jamal had actually adopted a persona that is different from his normal person you know beyond that at the time this was a nineteen year old kid using the platform of rap and hip hop to express his frustration and unfortunately the courts to being true and accurate in terms of being issued towards the police officers at hand and just as someone who grew up in the inner city of los angeles from my experience if someone were intending to carry out real threats against police officers or to encourage people to do so they're certainly not going to take it to the wrap platform to do it right they're just going to do what they need to do but the reality is that even with all of the frustration that people have in inner city communities and particularly. young black men in their encounters with law enforcement they are not running around shooting and killing officers as par for the course most of the time people tolerate the violence and the abuse that goes on and often people don't even file lawsuits in the face of the abuse th

as jamal knox did in this case at hand and you know it's interesting too is that the amount of money right now being made off of these black artists in the world is astronomical there's a lot of corporations making money off this i would hope that these corporations maybe ellen de generous if she's going to feature someone her so would step up with instances like what we're seeing with jamal knox or this twelve year old and say you know what we're going to pay your lawyer fees we're going to fight this alongside you because you're making us money you're being you know you're expressing your life we shouldn't be seeing the police be badgering you over this i hope that we could see that happen in the future most often when mccann absolutely even economic sanctions against the model law that i was involved in this incident became are going to thank you so much for coming on always a pleasure having you on and your insight thank you so much. thank you. butterfly butterfly where do you go apparently the answer is southern california this week our friends are greeted with a billion with a

artists filed a legal brief with the united states supreme court on behalf of pittsburgh rapper jamal knoxstage name mayhem mile. in in prison for lyrics threatening two police officers in a 2012 song. allies are contending that his lyrics while provocative, fall within the scope of protected speech but are being subjected to a double standard that is unique to hip hop. joining me now, jamilla lamal, columnist and strategist. which whole question of why they have gone after this particular artist, this particular rapper, and now many in the hip hop community have come together and have filed a brief on his behalf, give us the background and the contention here. >> well, you know, there are different standards for different groups of people in this country, as we know, and unfortunately this young man has not been able to express his legal -- to exercise his legal right, to express himself creatively. a lot of us take issue with the violence this rap music. it's something you have spoken out about in the past, it's something i take issue with. legally the artists have the right to say thing