Since its early days, rap lyrics have been used by prosecutors to build narratives with criminal trials. With the genre's popularity booming, this trend continues to affect aspiring artists and A-list ...
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 ...
The closest the U.S. Supreme Court has come to assessing whether rap lyrics can be used in prosecutions was in a case where it looked at whether they were a “true threat” that made someone believe ...