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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+(OP)
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+(OP)
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+(OP)
There's a Key and Peele sketch in this vein: Rap Album Confessions.[1]

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

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

>>__dere+E2
"It was a concept album"