Judge: Rap is a foreign language

A High Court judge has admitted that when asked to examine the lyrics of a rap song, he could not understand a word of it.

Judge Lewison had to rule whether composer Andrew Alcee had suffered damage to his honor or reputation through the "derogatory" use of his UK garage number one hit, "Burnin."

The judge said the claim "led to the faintly surreal experience of three gentlemen in horsehair wigs examining the meaning of such phrases as 'mish mish man' and 'shizzle my nizzle.'"

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