The Daily Show: Ears Edition - D.L. Hughley Tackles Sean Hannity’s Coverage of Cops and Racial Bias | Mac Phipps

Episode Date: February 3, 2023

D.L. Hughley tackles the day's biggest news including Sean Hannity saying cops don't have racial bias, a man who blames Tesla for driving his family off a cliff, and a child who charged $1,000 to his dad's GrubHub account. Rapper Mac Phipps shares his thoughts on using rap lyrics in court based on his own experience.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. What is going on, everybody, how you guys doing? All right. What is going on, everybody? How you guys doing? All right. Welcome to the Daily Show. I am Dio Hugley and this is my last night guest hosting and thank you guys. I had a great time. Met a lot of good people.

And happy Black History Month. Yeah, thank you. It goes fast. You got to mark them all down. I got to meet a lot. So this couple, you've mark them all down. I got to meet a lot. So this couple, you've been married, 44, stand up, you've been married 54 years. 55, oh look and he got it right. Now, that is a long time and you said the key to it is what?

Patious. That's the wrong, and she's supposed to say to love the key to it is what? Pacious. That's the wrong and she's supposed to say that you're supposed to say love and you say and you say it's what? Madly in love all right all right I'm gonna have some nice for you guys but only half of it because you know thank y' for coming out. I appreciate that. We have a great show for you tonight. So we're got to get into the headlines. This is a crazy story from California where a dad, he drove his whole family off a cliff and a Tesla. So, fortunately they all survived.

But when the paramedics arrived, the wife said that he did it on purpose. Now, I've been there for 38 years. I can tell you, I love my wife and children very much. And I would never drive them off a cliff. But I've thought about it. I've thought about it. Anybody who's been in the car with screaming with with with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with screaming with a the car with screaming as kids at a cliff available? Either you've thought about it or you're lying.

Look at him. I thought about it. Yeah. But I was patient. Kids will drive you crazy. You make, you ask me about that bathroom. One more damn time. We're going off the cliff, I swear. Even the judge would be like, will the, a defendant, I mean, hero, I mean, defendants, please stand up.

All right, what I don't understand is how a Tesla can survive going off a cliff, but it can't make you down the street without blowing the fuck up. I don't understand that. But now we're going to move on to the dumpster fire that it's Fox News. Now, you have got to hear the latest thing they're talking about when it comes to police shooting black people. Many on the left know just who to blame and what to blame. White sceparency. Here's something that will be the ladies of the view view apparently don't know. White people do get beaten by the police. In fact, far more white people are killed every year by cops than any other race. According to an online organization that tracks this data, 374 white Americans died during police altercations in 2022.

If you average that out, a little more than one per day. I don't know if the ladies of the view know any of the names of the police, the police, the police, the police, the police, the police, the police, the police, the police, the police, the police, the police, the people, the people, the people, the people, the people, the police, the police, a little more than one per day. I don't know if the ladies of the view know any of the names of the people, the 374 people. So based on both academic studies and actual data, there is no systemic racism in policing. It doesn't exist. Of course there are good cops and I would say that's the vast overwhelming majority and there is a small majority of bad cops. He said it small majority of bad cops. Now that is a fraudulent slip for your ass. That is one. That is one. Obviously it wouldn't be surprising that police kill more white people than black people

because they are way more of them. Way more. That's like more white people die at NASCAR races than black people, of course. Somebody check on Bubba Wallace, make sure he's alright, make sure we've got to get this. But Sean is right, the police do need to stop killing white people too. Welcome to the struggle, my brother. He's gonna tell you, I showed you.

You're about that. He's like the white Al Sharpton. It's great. And finally, here's a story about white should always keep your eyes on your children. Meet Mason Stonehouse, the six-year-old with a big appetite. This past Saturday before his bedtime. He gave him the phone to play and I wasn't paying attention. I was watching my show. But Mason wasn't playing a game. He was scrolling through the Grubhub app. What dad didn't know is that Mason was actually placing order after

order and all those orders were being filled. A parade of food delivery. The total damage, nearly $1,000, helped by Mason's generous spirit. And then he tipped 25% on every single order. And that is why you drive your family off a cliff. And that is why you drive your family off a cliff. That's why. It is true.

Only a father would leave a kid unattended that long. That would never have with a mother. You ordered a thousand dollars worth of food. You should be glad that he didn't open your browser history. Ooh. I'd have gave him a thousand dollars just to keep that quiet. You could have all the food you want to just tell your mama. For more, we're joined by Dulce Sloan. A Dulce, what do you...

What do you think about this whole grub-hub history thing? Well, I'll tell you one thing. This would never happen with a black family. If a black child spent a thousand dollars on his father's phone there wouldn't be any heartwarming news story about it. That thousand dollars worth of food would be served at that child's funeral. You never heard forthat little boy again. Unless there was some white woman talking about him on a true crime podcast. The boy dad. A thousand dollars on my phone where I pay rent, he's dead.

So why do you think he was so lucky? I mean, listen, he was lucky also, he needed to learn not to be so greedy, okay? He was lucky because it was a white child, right? And the thing is, he didn't have to order a thousand dollars worth of food all at once? No, little man, you're supposed to order it a little bit every night, right? And then you keep the scam going for years. Like, you don't walk into your local grocery store with a guns blazing? No, no, no, no. You just forget to scan half the shit at the self-checkout. But you got to admit this had a happy end.

GrubHub refunded all the money. What you mean? Grub Hub gave them all of the money back. We funded it all. GrabHub gave them a thousand dollars back. The hell they wouldn't give me seven dollars back with some drive-in' my french fries. Do you know how hard I'd have to work to get a thousand dollars back from GrubHub? I'd I'd have to start a hashtag be trending on black Twitter called the NWACP have a sitting at the Grubhubb headquarters with the ghost of Martin Luther King. A thousand dollars back.

But listen, wait a minute. I can't do all this. I just need to have a baby. Why you need to have a baby? Well, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, to have a baby, to have a baby, to have a baby, to have a baby, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the, the, the, the, the, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th.. I'm, th. tho, tha, tha, tod, toda, toda, today, today, today, tha, the, the, the, the, the, baby. It's perfect, yeah. Why do you need to have a baby? Well, one, because I've looked like a mother of three since I was 15. Two. Hey, man, listen, I started high school with decup titties. That should have been way more popular. Stupid boys respected me. Listen.

Two, because kids are the ultimate loophole for stealing shit. Oh, just pretend the baby did it. You're gonna get it for free. Like, oh no, did my sweet baby boy crawl across my keyboard and order another Chanel back? Oh! You little scam? Oh, somebody gonna get this baby. He's wild.

He's why. He's why. What if the baby snitches on you? First of all, my baby's gonna know better, okay? Well, that looks like having a snitching-ass baby, you crazy? Two, who's gonna believe him, he's a baby. It's his words against mine, he only knows three of them. Mama's not home, okay? They don't know shit.

Mommy didn't do it. Come on. Plus, babies don't have object permanence, okay? How is he gonna snitch on me after I stop existing? Where's mommy? Mommy's not home! Who got mommy and Chanel bag? That would work for a little while, but obviously the baby's going to be an adult, and then what would you do?

Then they get their own baby, and then that's how you build generational wealth. Now that, that's a plan. Dose Sloan, everybody. All right. When we come back, let me to talk about how rapping can land you in prison. So you don't want to the Daily Show. Now right now in Atlanta the rapper Young Thug is on trial for gang activities and it is not without controversy. Atlanta rapper's Gunna and Young Thug responsible for dozens of chart-topping hits.

They find themselves at the center of a controversial debate in court. Should rap lyrics be used as evidence in the courtroom. The rapper's lyrics, one piece of evidence prosecutors are using in the indictment in the center of a controversial debate in court. Should rap lyrics be used as evidence in the courtroom? The rapper's lyrics, one piece of evidence prosecutors are using in the indictment. I never killed anybody, but I got something to do with that. The prosecution, citing lyrics like that in the indictment as proof of criminal conspiracy. The district attorney believes he is the ringleader of the YSL gang, and his lyrics are fair game. I think if you decide to admit to admit to admit to admit to admit to admit to admit to admit to admit to admit to admit to admit to admit to admit to admit to admit the crimes the crimes the crimes their their their crimes their crimes their crimes their crimes their crimes their crimes their crimes their crimes their crimes their crimes their crimes their crimes their crimes the ringleader of the YSL gang, and his lyrics are fair game. I think if you decide to admit your crimes over a beat, I'm going to use it.

That sounds like every mama I've ever seen in my life. Fyy, young people, when your name is Jung Thug or Gunna, you're gonna go to jail. You're a mumble rapper, but they heard them clearly on that wiretap. I know that. The issue is should prosecutors use rap lyrics in criminal trials? That's what I want to talk about tonight in our segment, long story short. Well, since the 90s prosecutors have used lyrics as evidence against indefendence in more than over 500 trials. But don't get me wrong, if you rap about something you did do, well, that's a confession. If you rap about something you didn't do, that is artistic expression.

And here are just a few examples of ways rappers lyrics get used in court. A rapper named Terrence Hatch, known as Lil Busey, was trying for first-degree murder. Prosecutors argued that a few cryptic words of one rap song were in fact a confession. Rapper McKinley Phipps was sentenced to 30 years in prison for manslaughter. Prosecutors presented spliced together lyrics from two different songs as evidence at his trial. Police say Antoine Stewart, a rapper, who goes by the name Twain Gotti, made a big mistake when he recorded the song Ride Out. Police believe Stewart brags through his lyrics about how he killed Brian Dean and Christopher Horton. Listen. Some of the details match.

The shooting happened on a porch, no witnesses immediately came forward, but others don't. The time of day is wrong, there wasn't a stabbing, the caliber of the gun is wrong, and there's only one victim mentioned, not two. Based largely on that rap and on the accounts of two witnesses, given years after the rapping, the rapper was arrested and charged with double murder. Okay, they got the gun wrong, they got the stabbing wrong, they got the number of victims wrong. The only thing they got right was the porch. And every black person I know got

a goddamn porch. I mean, and by the way, not everything black people saying songs is true. Like Bob Marley, he didn't actually shoot the sheriff. He just wanted you to think he did so y'all wouldn't fuck with him, that's it. Sir Mick's a lot, he don't like big butts. Nope, he's more of a boob guy, trust me. And I'm a comedian, I ain't never in my life seen a rabbi and a priest walking to a damn bar. I've never seen that. Art is an expression. They use this to reflect black life in America,

and now they're being punished for it. But some prosecutors say too bad. David LeBon is a former gang prosecutor. He's now the CEO of the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys. I would say, you can't have it both ways. Can't say that I'm rapping about stuff because this is this this and this is what I see every day and then come into court and say everything that I said in that rap is completely untrue. You can have it both ways. It's called fiction.

And they, uh, they uh... They have a whole section in Barnes and Nobles. Read a book, bitch. I don't even think the prosecutors think their lyrics are confessing. They just do it because it works and it works because juries are made of people and people are kind of racist. As a matter of fact, in a recent study, people were given identical lyrics and told that they either came from country artist or rap artist or rap artist or heavy metal artists. And surprise, surprise! People were more likely to think that rap lyrics were written by a criminal. Clearly, rap is just cold for black persons. Country is cold for white

person and heavy metal. It's cold for who the fuck knows. I don't know what that is. But there is violence in almost every art form, but the one with young black rappers is the only one that gets treated this way. And this isn't even hypothetical. There was a white woman on trial for murdering her husband, and she had written an essay called How to murder your husband. And guess what? The judge, he wouldn't allow the essay to be read in court because he said it could prejudice the jury. She lucky Dr. Dre didn't write the foreword. And I agree with that judge, it does prejudice the jury. The worst part about all of this is that rappers have to listen to their lyrics get butchered in court by people with no flow at all.

Hey, this is that slime shit. Hey, YSL shit. Hey, killing 12 shit. Murder, gang bitch. YSL until we're dead and pale. I never killed anybody, but I got something to do with that body. Ready for war like I'm Russia. Slineball and shit like, yeah, yeah, yeah,

why would I lie? I got mob ties. And y'all thought Nick Cannon couldn't rap. So look, there are a whole lot of problem with the justice system in America, but this is an easy fix. Long story short, just stopped using lyrics in court. That rhyme, but don't use it against me. I was just kidding around. Stay tuned because when we come back, I'm going to be talking about this issue with a rapper whose lyric got him sent to prison. Welcome back to the the daily show. Now my next guest tonight is a rapper who's lyrics put him in prison for 21 years but he recently put out a new album called Son of the City.

Please welcome Mac Phipps. My next guest tonight is a rapper who's lyrics, put him in prison for 21 years, but he recently put out a new album called Son of the City. Please welcome Mac Phipps. It must be, it must be weird to see the very thing you were convicted of a long time ago. It must be a theat. It must be, it must be weird to see the very thing you were convicted of a long time ago being in the headlines again, huh? Yeah, and this time with another rapper. I know you're glad about that part.

That's pretty. It ain't you. Yeah. You remember what the lyrics were that they used to send you, to send you, to send you, yeah so they used two different songs. It was a song I had called. the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to send you to send you to prison, to send you? Yeah, so they used two different songs. It was a song I had called Shell Shock and one called Murder Murder. So what they did was they took the chorus part for Murder Murder Which I say Murder Murder, Kill, It's Real on the Battlefield. So they took murder and they took a line that I used from Shell Shock about my father, where I said something to the effect like he gave me

his name, he gave me the game, and if you f with me, he'll put a bullet in your brain. So they put them together and they said, murder, murder, kill, kill, if you f-f with me, I'll put a bullet in your brain. This is the words of this young man. Then they pointed to me in court. That made me scared to finish this interview. I'm tell you that. But interestingly enough, because here's the thing, I think, I'm an artist like you're an artist, I think that art should be protected.

I think that there should be no limits on art. I shouldn't necessarily know if you mean it or not. That's the purpose of art. Right. But ultimately, there are a lot of people who say a lot of things they actually did. And that's the problem. There's a difference between artistic expression and a confession. And I think that some people are so determined to prove how hard they are or where they came from that they tell it on theirself.

And the whole streetcodes, snitches don't get stigged, they get immunity for prosecution. Right. And I guess, and if you you you you you you might if you might if you might if you might if you the th you might, and if you might, and if you might, and if you might, and if you might, and if you might, and if you might, and if you might, and if you might, and if you might, and if you add to that, I think that even if there are people that's doing, you know, doing what they're saying, I speak for the majority. Right. And for the majority, it's straight fiction. I mean, most of these guys, I mean, not the most, the more well-known artists, but let's talk about some of these artists that don't have as big of a name. In the the the the their, and in, and in, and in, and in, and in, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and th. th. thi, thi, and thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, I'm, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi, thi, thi, to, to to toeeei, toean, toean, toean, toean, toean, toean, thi, thi, thi, thi, of these artists that don't have as big of a name. In this song he says and I think prosecutors don't get the right to cherry pick what is fiction and what is what is not. That's specifically the gig what they do is they don't care about me and write around they care about if they can win. Right and I think that what we have this conflation with. We have this conflation with words and what they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they their their they their their they they they they their they their they they their they they they they they they they they they they they they their their their we have have have have their. their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their they they they they they they they they they their is is is is is is is is their. their. their. their. their. their. their. th are are are are are are th. I are the. I are the. I toge. I toge. I toge. I th the. I the. I theateate. I the. biases that can like I write an essay called how to murder your husband that isn't

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just being here is a reflection of that hope that I kept the whole time I was there for 21 years. I made a promise to myself. I said I was never going to let this situation turn me black-hearted. I never wanted to be bitter, mad about it. You don't want them, the situation that turns you with you a convicted. Yeah, you couldn't, I wasn't, I like the win. I like the win y'all and you wasn't going to turn you into a miserable bitter person, you know, so when I came out I said well I got to get the

work because there's other guys who I left behind that in similar situations, Master P's brother, C. Murder is in a similar situation. You know, his image was used against him. See murder? Yeah, so, right. Right. You know what's interesting? You have a new album now, it's called Son of the City. Now, did you use any of them murder, kill, kill, yeah, none of that. No. No. I think much of that has to do with just maturity and growing up.

I'm a grandfather. You know what I mean? So I mean, ultimately I was going to mature as a musician. Right. Anyway, a lot of these young men that's rapping about what they're rapping about today, they won't be talking about's 10 tracks on it. What's your favorite? My favorite track is Proverbs because it's what I would tell the world. If I had the world's attention for four minutes. Those words are what I would say to. Well I ain't got four minutes, give me 30 seconds. 30 seconds? All right. May your tomorrows be filled with promise and the opposite of sorrow. the floved to be your their to be your to be your their their to be their to be their their to be their their their to be fom. May may may may may may their t tom. May tom. May tom. May tom. May tombs be filled tombs be filled tombs. their their their tombs be filled tombs. their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their promise. their promise. their promise. their promise. their promise. their promise. their promise. their promise. their promise. their promise. tom. tom. tom. tom. tom. tomorrows. tomorrows. tomorrows. tomorrows. tomorrows. tomorrows. tomorrows. tomorrows. tomorrows. tomorrows. tomorrows. t things. For I know that it's a struggle just to go with the float.

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I believe in the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power the power believe in the power of us made in their image and in their likeness. The reason we write this is with hopes that will inspire others to take it higher and further than those before us, because they're waiting for us. So your thoughts make your reality and I wish that I can share with y'all all the formalities, but if I had to sum it up in just a few words that I only take seven on earth as it is in heaven. Now, I'm a I'm no, Mr. Kagan, what? You're saying. Look, look, uh, I'm no composer, I'm no composer, but that's a damn show a lot of

murder, kill people, put it up. Max Films Phillips everybody. His album Son of the City is available now. Okay, we're going to take a break and we're going to be right back after this. Go. Go. Go. Well, that's it. That's going to hold me. That is my week. I've had a lot of fun hunkers in this week. Thank you all for watching. Make sure you tune in next week when your

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