Giggs speaks out against the police to support campaign against using rap lyrics as evidence

nme.com:

Giggs has spoken out against the police in a statement urging fans to support the Art Not Evidence campaign.The campaign aims to restrict the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials.

Defendants are often unfairly prosecuted from lyrics typically understood to be exaggeration or fiction, or even appearing in rap videos.As of June 2023, over 240 people in the UK have been jailed after a court decision that was in part based on their involvement with rap music.Giggs took to his official Instagram account to speak about his experience with authorities and the use of his lyrics used against him in court.“Evidence in court should be 100 per cent facts.

100 per cent facts. This is judging wether or not someone is going to face life in prison or even just one day. it should be 100 facts.

Rap music, or art, isn’t always 100 per cent facts. You can’t prove if something if something is 100% facts through listening to a song,” he said in a video post.A post shared by GIGGS (@officialgiggs)He then went on to cite his 2011 track ‘Wolf’ which he referred to in his caption as part of the reason he was sent to court in 2012.“In 2012 i spent 7 months on remand in HMP Belmarsh for a firearms charge for a crime I did not commit with no evidence against me at all.