Operating on the assumption that you can’t really understand the mindset of DMX—and, specifically, his artistic decision to not pay something like $1.7 million in back taxes to the federal government—without first hearing his music, the rapper’s lawyers have requested the chance to play some of his songs as, we guess, evidence(?) in a court of law. Specifically, Spin reports that X’s lawyers are asking to play hits like “Slippin’” and “The Convo” at his upcoming sentencing hearing for tax evasion, both as a way for the court to “understand [DMX] genuinely in his voice”—since he might get too emotional at the prospect of spending as many as five years in jail to speak for himself—and as a testament to his ability to eventually pay the feds back the money he owes.