{"id":4868,"date":"2026-03-16T17:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/fat-joe-joins-petition-to-stop-texas-rappers-execution\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:13:30","slug":"fat-joe-joins-petition-to-stop-texas-rappers-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/fat-joe-joins-petition-to-stop-texas-rappers-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Joe Joins Petition To Stop Texas Rapper\u2019s Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Fat Joe has joined several other rappers\u2014Killer Mike, T.I., N.O.R.E, Young Thug, and Travis Scott\u2014in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/20260309162010\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/09\/us\/supreme-court-rap-lyrics-death-penalty.html\">a petition to halt the execution<\/a> of a Texas rapper named James Broadnax. In 2009, Broadnax was sentenced to death for two murders that happened a year prior. The crux of the case rested on 40 pages of the defendant\u2019s handwritten rap lyrics. However, according to Broadnax\u2019s fellow rap peers, his sentence is \u201cunconstitutional.\u201d Fat Joe recently chatted with <em>CBS News<\/em> about why he decided to be part of the fight. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just happen to know that hip-hop music comes from a place of creativity and imagination,\u201d Joe tells the outlet. \u201c\u2026There\u2019s nowhere on earth that the stuff that we write is actually real.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fat Joe joins artists petitioning a halt to James Broadnax's execution in Texas\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AF7IGnfA2kg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fat Joe has joined several other rappers\u2014Killer Mike, T.I., N.O.R.E, Young Thug, and Travis Scott\u2014in a petition to halt the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}