September 9th 2023.
Kenjuan McDaniel was arrested on August 29th for reenacting details of a murder in a music video. According to CNN, McDaniel had already been a person of interest in the shooting death of Randall Wallace due to being connected to the vehicle suspected to have been used in the incident. However, upon the release of the 25-year-old rapper’s track “Fadee Free” and its accompanying music video in July 2023, new evidence was brought to light.
Lyrics from the song, such as “I be the reason why he’s dead, we still taunt him when he die, not the reason he’s dead, so celebrate the reason why his momma cry,” were cited in the arrest warrant for McDaniel. Law enforcement officials also found a striking resemblance between the song’s lyrics and unreleased details of the murder, as well as behaviors displayed by McDaniel in the music video that were “consistent with evidence at the scene.”
The implications of the case have sparked a national discourse on the ramifications of using artistic expression as evidence in the court of law. In response, the Restoring Artistic Protection Act was brought before the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time on June 21, 2022. The bill seeks to limit the extent to which an artist’s “creative or artistic expression” can be used against a defendant in a criminal case, with rappers such as Drake, Jay-Z, Megan Thee Stallion, and Meek Mill signing the bill to show their support.
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