Schumer also sponsored a resolution designating Aug. Schumer and Cassidy worked together on legislation included in the bipartisan COVID-19 relief package passed in December 2020 that made pandemic relief available to gig workers and small music businesses. Wednesday evening, the Recording Academy hosted the Grammys on the Hill Awards, which honored 13-time Grammy winner Pharrell Williams, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. The news conference was the culmination of the two-day Grammys on the Hill, an event put on by the Recording Academy that brings together lawmakers and musicians, producers and music industry executives to recognize individuals who have fought for creators’ rights. Silencing creative expression is a violation against all artists in all forms.”īowman, Johnson and Mason were joined by Rico Love, two-time Grammy nominee and chair of the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective Prophet, founder and co-chair of the Black Music Action Coalition Fran Drescher, president of the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Kevin Liles, chairman and CEO of 300 Elektra Entertainment and representatives from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. “But this act is absolutely not just about hip hop artists. “This practice disproportionately affects rap artists,” said Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, the society of musicians that hosts the Grammy Awards. It’s a practice that has increasingly been used against rappers in recent years in high-profile racketeering cases and it’s one that proponents of the measure argue infringes on creators’ First Amendment rights.
The latest iteration has more than 20 co-sponsors, the pair said at the news conference, and would limit the admissibility of song lyrics as evidence against artists. The measure did not make it out of committee. The RAP Act was first introduced by Johnson in the 117th Congress with 10 Democratic co-sponsors. It’s education,” Bowman continued in his defense of the genre. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., who reintroduced the Restoring Artistic Protection Act (RAP Act).
and Rakim classic “Move the Crowd” during a news conference alongside Rep. "If Rakim didn't tell me 'With knowledge of self there's nothing I can't solve,' I never would have pursued knowledge of self which gave me the self esteem and self worth to be standing here before you today," said Bowman, quoting lyrics from the Eric B.
The measure would limit prosecutors from using rappers’ own words in their music against them when facing criminal or civil charges. The New York Democrat, standing in front of the Capitol in the House Triangle on Thursday, quoted lyrics from his favorite artists as lawmakers, musicians, producers and other creators gathered to reintroduce legislation aimed at protecting the creative freedoms of all artists, and rappers in particular. and Rakim, Big Daddy Kane and Public Enemy and contributions from myriad other artists helped inspire Jamaal Bowman to run for Congress. Writer(s): Jacob Ray, Blaise Railey, Isaac ValenzuelaLyrics powered by music of Eric B. I ain′t left the house in three weeks I been on go, I been getting' too geeked Turn a good girl to a freak House a hotel she don′t ever wanna leave Did too much I can't peek Work too much I don't ever get sleep I don′t trust nobody Don′t bring nobody new around me Go until we blackout Go until we, go until we Go Go Go until we, go until we Goooo Go until we blackout Think it's time to come back down I don′t wanna come back down I don't turn my back now I don′t wanna back out Think it's time to come back down Go until we blackout Go until we, go until we Go Go Go until we, go until we Go Go Take me out I′m sinkin' in Nothing else matters when I'm deep within The only thing we changin′ is positions So we go up and black out Yea, I′m up there right now I look down on the clouds No storms to throw me around, around Eh, eh Go until we blackout Go until we, go until we, go until we Go Go Go until we, go until we Goooo Go until we blackout Think it's time to come back down I don′t wanna come back down I don't turn my back now I don′t wanna back out Think it's time to come back down Go until we blackout Colorful creation With my imagination Going foreign places Would you follow me? Eh, eh Go until we blackout Go until we, go until we Go Go Go until we, go until we Goooo Go until we blackout
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