New Article: Jay-Z's 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading with Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps

Caleb Mason (Southwestern Law School) recently published Jay-Z's 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading with Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps in the Saint Louis University Law Journal (Vol. 56, No. 2, 2012).  The article has received mentions in the Huffington Post, SOHH.com, The Grio, BET, Gawker.com, Music Law Seminar, TheRoot.com, AboveTheLaw.com, and the Wall Street Journal blog.  The YouTube video of Jay-Z's song:




The article has also inspired a Canadian response authored by Emir Crowne.  From the abstract from Mason's original article:

This is a line-by-line analysis of the second verse of 99 Problems by Jay-Z, from the perspective of a criminal procedure professor.  It’s intended as a resource for law students and teachers, and for anyone who’s interested in what pop culture gets right about criminal justice, and what it gets wrong.