rap artists. many of whom have previously spoken out about this issue. joining m b, also serving as a professor at rice university where he lectures on the parallels between hip hop and faith. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> you have people who say, if someone goes on youtube or has a rap song and they are speaking of a crime, in some cases murder, robbery, felons, and it turns out that it is true, why shouldn't that be used against them in court? how do you explain where this becomes a free speech issue? >> well, i mean, if someone chooses to incriminate themselves, that's their own thing. i think the problem is that you know, once we start to open this door to go through everyone's rap lyrics to try to find crime in there, i think that's where we have the problem. >> and it's also interesting that this article in the "new york times" just came out, but in reality, you, many other brilliant rappers, philosophers, people who really try to educate folks about the community and what they perhaps don't understand through ignorance. why this i