Travis Scott, Killer Mike, and others have filed briefs with the Supreme Court in support of a Texas man whose rap lyrics were used in his sentencing.

Rap is a lyrical expression of social, cultural, and political issues in present society. Unsurprisingly, rap music is the most popular genre of music and features predominantly Black artists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a judicial opinion filed last month, The State of Maryland’s highest court ruled that rap lyrics may be admitted in court as ...

Young Thug performs onstage at the 2022 SXSW Conference on March 17, 2022, in Austin, Tex. (Amy E. Price / Getty Images for SXSW) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree ...

(CN) — Should someone’s creative work be used against them in a criminal trial? That was the question presented before the Maryland Court of Appeals earlier this year after rap lyrics sang in a ...

He’s getting a second chance to beat the rap. A Brooklyn man convicted of helping a killer pull off a 2016 shooting will get a new trial, after a state appeals court ruled that the judge in the case ...

Young Thug performs onstage during the 2022 SXSW Conference at Waterloo Park in Austin on March 17, 2022. Young Thug performs onstage during the 2022 SXSW Conference at Waterloo Park in Austin on ...

No one believes that country music legend Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. When Cash in 1968 released “Folsom Prison Blues,” a ballad about shooting and killing a man for no ...

In Florida, rapper YNW Melly’s double murder retrial looms in 2024. Meanwhile, in Georgia, Young Thug is the latest high-profile hip hop artist to have his lyrics dissected in court. Prior to Melly’s ...

The racial bias of courts using rap lyrics to criminalize artists of color. California is the first state to prevent courts from criminalizing Black and Brown artistic expression, after passing ...