Rapper Wais P From Da Ranjahz Says He's Not A Pimp

He’s not a real pimp — he just talks like one.

Rapper Wais P the Pimp finally got a chance to leave jail on Rikers Island Monday after his lawyer and a Manhattan judge got into a lively exchange over whether the case against him was built on his bad language.

Defense attorney Theodore Goldberg argued that his client, whose real name is Malcolm Byer, deserved a chance at making bail because the case against him by the Manhattan district attorney’s office is weak.

“Their evidence involves a great deal of speculation,” Goldberg said, because it’s based partly on wiretaps where Byer is heard talking with an accused human trafficker about “bitches” and “hos.”

“It’s a gigantic leap for the average juror to hear Byer say ‘she’s a ho’ and (conclude) he’s promoting prostitution,” Goldberg said, insisting that the language is common in Byer’s genre of “Pimp Hop” music.

“That’s not what the DA is saying, in any way, form or manner,” countered Manhattan Supreme Court Justice James Burke, who said there is “substantial evidence” against the former Jay Z protege .

“It doesn’t come down to a Clintonesque parsing of words,” the judge said.

Byer has been held without bail on the prostitution charges since April, when he was arrested leaving Burke’s courtroom on drunken-driving charges.

Prosecutors said then that he was part of an interstate ring that brought underage girls from New Jersey into Manhattan to service clients in Midtown hotels.

On Monday, Assistant District Attorney Carolina Holderness disputed Goldberg’s claim that Byer was a good candidate for bail because he has a stable 10-year marriage with a wife named Rachel and two children.

She said Byer is actually separated from his wife and has been living with three suspected prostitutes, the youngest being the mother of his third child, who was born while he has been at Rikers.

Holderness said Byer has been caught on tape on Rikers’ phones running his ring, telling the women that he needs money, and fretting over whether prosecutors can open his encrypted cell phone because “my s--- is on this phone.”

So far, she said, investigators have not been able to open the Apple iPhone.

Prosecutors wanted Byer held without bail on the drunken-driving charge because while he was out on bail on that charge — his third in 10 years — he engaged in “such blatant and prolonged criminal activity” in the prostitution ring.

Burke set bail at $500,000 in the drunken-driving case and $250,000 for the prostitution case and required a hearing into the source of any money that Byer posts to get out.

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