Popular Canadian rapper Classified says he can't understand why a prominent lawyers' group is condemning his angry response to a controversial sexual-assault sentencing.

Rapper Classified is calling out a Newfoundland and Labrador judge for handing a St. John’s man a five-year sentence for brutally raping an 11-year-old girl and urged others on social media to speak out.

Christopher Ford Butt, from St. John’s in Newfoundland and Labrador, has been given a five year prison sentence for the horrific rape of an 11-year-old girl.