A Georgia highschool footballer has been charged with making terrorist threats for recording a diss rap threatening to beat one other participant.
Cortez Lyles, 18, was slapped with the costs final month after sharing the observe on Instagram following an on-field scuffle along with his teammate at Heritage Excessive Faculty in Conyers final November, FOX5 reported.
The teenager defensive again opted to document the diss observe — the place he raps he’s going to “beat his ass” and warns to “get a body bag” — after his mother and father informed him to not settle the rating with bodily violence, his mother mentioned.
“What do y’all want him to do? Come back to school and fight?” his outraged mother, Shandela McKnight, mentioned of the rap tune retaliation. “We don’t teach our kids that.”
Lyles was cuffed on campus after the opposite pupil’s mother and father heard the observe and opted to file expenses in February.
Different obvious threats on the observe included the phrases “drop a diss” and “I ain’t sparing.”
The teenager’s father, Nachez Lyles, insisted his son’s phrases ought to by no means have been taken actually — not to mention resulted in terrorist menace expenses.
“The same thing with the Kendrick Lamar and Drake situation,” he mentioned, referring to a long-running feud between the 2 rappers.
“The complete consensus was, ‘Oh, Kendrick bodied Drake’ so, for that to be mentioned in a song and translated into something literal is egregious.”
The teenager was hit with a misdemeanor cost of constructing terroristic threats or acts.
It wasn’t instantly clear when he was scheduled to face court docket.
