Georgia high school footballer hit with terroristic threats charges over diss track about teammate

A Georgia high school footballer has been charged with making terrorist threats for recording a diss rap threatening to beat another player.Cortez Lyles, 18, was slapped with the charges last month after sharing the track on Instagram following an on-field scuffle with his teammate at Heritage High School in Conyers last November, FOX5 reported.The teen defensive back opted to record the diss track — where he raps he is going to “beat his ass” and warns to “get a body bag” — after his parents told him not to settle the score with physical violence, his mom said.“What do y’all want him to do? Come back to school and fight?” his outraged mom, Shandela McKnight, said of the rap song retaliation.“We don’t teach our kids that.”Lyles was cuffed on campus after the other student’s parents heard the track and opted to file charges in February.Other apparent threats on the track included the phrases “drop a diss” and “I ain’t sparing.”The teen’s father, Nachez Lyles, insisted his son’s words should never have been taken literally — let alone resulted in terrorist threat charges.

“The same thing with the Kendrick Lamar and Drake situation,” he said, referring to a long-running feud between the two rappers.“The complete consensus was, ‘Oh, Kendrick bodied Drake’ so, for that to be mentioned in a song and translated into something literal is egregious.”The teen was hit with a misdemeanor charge of making terroristic threats or acts.It wasn’t immediately clear when he was scheduled to face court.

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