2023-09-11 18:50:47
In Las Vegas, police arrested an amateur rapper following he confessed to murder in a song.
Symbolic image: AP Photo/John Locher/Keystone
Actually, the police had no evidence that Kenjuan murdered McDaniel. He then released a rap song that described the events of an unsolved murder in suspicious detail.
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An unknown rapper from Las Vegas was arrested following he released a song in which he appeared to admit to a murder. The accompanying music video also contains details that, according to police, only investigators or those involved in the crime might have known. The rapper was only a person of particular interest in the case before the song was released because his car matched the description of one that was spotted near the crime scene.
Gangsta rap is known for its brutal lyrics, but in most cases these are the product of the rapper’s imagination. But not in this case.
The completely unknown rapper “The Biggest Finn4800”, real name Kenjuan McDaniel, was originally considered a person of special interest by the Las Vegas police in a murder case – then he released a song whose lyrics were suspiciously similar to the crime scene under investigation.
The text also included a nickname for the victim. The music video that McDaniel uploaded to his YouTube channel, which has fewer than 500 subscribers, also shows scenes that reminded police officers of the results of their investigation into the case.
Police: “He confessed to the murder in his lyrics.”
Both the song and the accompanying video contain details of the crime that “were not made available to the public and cannot be common knowledge,” according to an excerpt from McDaniel’s arrest warrant. He “confessed to the murder in his lyrics,” according to the police.
Before he released the song, McDaniel was only a person of special interest because his car matched the description of a car seen at the crime scene on the night of September 18, 2021.
The 25-year-old rapper is now charged with murder with a deadly weapon and violating probation. In the state of Nevada, the seriousness of the crime is determined by the jury. If the verdict is first-degree murder, he might even face the death penalty.
A question of artistic freedom?
His lyrics might also be fatal for a more prominent musician: rapper Young Thug is accused of having founded not only a record company but also a criminal organization with his label YSL.
The rapper is mainly accused of selling drugs. Here too, the public prosecutor’s office argues with passages from the 31-year-old’s work.
Legally, however, they are walking on thin ice. Prosecuting artists for statements made in their artistic practice might constitute a breach of artistic freedom as enshrined in the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
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