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... The music, recorded under the stage name X-Raided, was brash, explicit and relentlessly violent. ...
The trial had been a complex one with a separate jury for each of the defendants, but finally, four years after the crime and his arrest, the verdict came back guilty for X-Raided. ...
There was no reason for Harned to think he would ever see X-Raided again. ... The modest sales make him unknown to most music fans, but X-Raided is an underground hero to some and a celebrity of the prison yard. ... In his moonlighting role, he has one client: X-Raided, the rapper and murderer. The attorney even has an X-Raided CD perched beside his law books. ... "
Asked about his latest work, X-Raided knitted his eyes, bobbed his head to a beat no one else could hear and began rhyming:
Might survive with black eyes and torn clothes
Or meet my end in the pen, servin a sentence for sins committed
If I lose my soul Ill send my men to get it
Never break the law again, player, but I intend to bend it
Behind him, some of the Mule Creek couples paused in curiosity, and one inmate with an iron cross tattoo sneered. ... X-Raided was joined by Skooby, Scrappy, Little Bread and Baby Snake -- their nicknames were probably meant to make them sound streetwise but had the opposite effect. ... The youngest among the Crips war party would testify that the raid was engineered by X-Raided, their leader and charismatic neighborhood celebrity. ... Aldert Robinson, a 25-year veteran of the Sacramento police force, what X-Raided really was that fateful night was a poseur in over his head. ... X-Raided was one of those novices. ... It would be a key link to X-Raided. ... "
Before the murder, Jaz Brown was a clerk at the Sacramento County Courthouse, but she quit when X-Raided became a famous defendant in the corridors. By June 2000, Jaz Brown had a new title, CEO of Madman Records, the new label for X-Raided and other rappers. ... Bill Lockyers office had sued X-Raided under the Son of Sam law in an attempt to seize his music profits and set them aside for the family of his victim. ... "
But the Son of Sam case against X-Raided stalled and the California Supreme Court later struck down the law. ... Its twisted, I know that, it sounds twisted," X-Raided said. ... "
Recording at prison
The only truly bankable asset for Madman Records was a stack of digitally recorded discs, the master recordings of more than 150 X-Raided songs. ... But at Salinas Valley in 1998, X-Raided finally found his voice. ... "But the guard, he made a mistake," X-Raided said. ... But when he was tapped for the Harris murder case, he steeled himself and listened to every X-Raided song. ...
In "Tha Murder," X-Raided raps that he will stop at nothing to hunt down his rivals, and that he will smash through doors and kill their relatives. ...
X-Raided now says he did not testify about what really happened the night of the Harris murder because he adhered to the gang code of silence. ... One issue has a blurry photo of man with a gun pressed to his head -- its the cover of X-Raideds first album. ...
When X-Raided was on trial, Harris accused him of killing purely to promote a rap career. ...
Harris did not know Harned was working for X-Raided. ... X-Raided wants to set up a new label, Gangway Records, and minimize the role of Madman and Jaz Brown (instead of minding the money, a frustrated X-Raided said, she mothered the acts, lining up personal finance or anger management classes for them). ...
And what of X-Raideds dream of cashing in with his rap and hiring a hotshot defense attorney for an appeal -- did Harneds new friendship with his onetime quarry persuade him that the rapper might have been wrongly convicted?
Approximate Word count = 4036
Approximate Pages = 16.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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