The legal analysis was amusing, but most interesting was the footnote quoting Jay-Z saying at no point in this song is he talking about a woman and that, at least with respect to the second verse, the probem he does not have refers to a k9 dog rather than a woman.
I remember getting into an argument with an ex, who LOVED Jay-Z's book, regarding this song ...I was always annoyed by the fact that he presents himself as a sympathetic victim of an a-hole rascist cop that is stereotyping him as a drug-running criminal...except, um, he WAS drug running.
The legal analysis was amusing, but most interesting was the footnote quoting Jay-Z saying at no point in this song is he talking about a woman and that, at least with respect to the second verse, the probem he does not have refers to a k9 dog rather than a woman.
ReplyDeleteI remember getting into an argument with an ex, who LOVED Jay-Z's book, regarding this song ...I was always annoyed by the fact that he presents himself as a sympathetic victim of an a-hole rascist cop that is stereotyping him as a drug-running criminal...except, um, he WAS drug running.
ReplyDeleteSo he's leaving open the possibility that he has a problem with a woman?
ReplyDeleteI think this is the better of the two law review articles I've read this month, but the other one ( http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2045255 ) was also interesting, if less relevant to nonfiction life.
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