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I was happy to see the story caught that it was Tupac song lyrics, which I see also was picked up in the previous HN discussion. While it's not really laudable behavior, quoting some lyrics that in almost 30 years hindsight are pretty silly is not quite as threatening as people make out. Probably better to stay off social media when drinking all the same.

>>andy99+(OP)
I don't understand why the fact that his words happen to be song lyrics somehow softens the blow. If I wrote to my government representative "go hang yourself with a barbed wire" I'd expect it to be taken seriously as a threat. It doesn't matter that the Gravediggaz originally wrote the lyric.

>>ryandr+o1
If you said "I'm the Rza-rector, be my sacrifice" though?

I think the fact that it's lyrics can make a big difference to the assumed intent. It's a young guy quoting an angry poem vs an actual threat.

>>ryandr+o1
That's obviously not a threat. Just like saying "go fuck yourself" isn't a threat of rape.

"Die slow" is pretty ambiguous though.

>>ryandr+o1
There's a Key and Peele sketch in this vein: Rap Album Confessions.[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WE3A0PwVs

>>andy99+(OP)
30 years ago those lyrics were threatening, written by, and targeting violent people. They weren't innocent, it wasn't some fantasy, these were people making music about their lives.

>>ryandr+o1
because this only matters if you somehow benefit from it; either with virtue points on the internet, or political points in the media.

>>__dere+24
"It was a concept album"