The Independent

Rap lyrics were used to help send a man to death row. It’s not the first time

Kemba, a rapper featured in the documentary ‘As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial’ (© 2024 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved.) From reproductive rights to ...
Time

What to Know About Young Thug’s Trial and the Controversial Use of Rap Lyrics in Criminal Cases

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Rolling Stone

Travis Scott Tells Supreme Court Use of Rap Lyrics in Death Sentence Was Unconstitutional

Some of rap music’s biggest names have come out in support of a Black man, whose rap lyrics were cited during his sentencing in Texas. He is on death row. In 2009, a nearly all-white jury convicted ...
The New York Times

The Year’s Most Polarizing Rap Freestyle

new video loaded: The Year’s Most Polarizing Rap Freestyle transcript ♫ “Walk in that b— like” ♫ ♫ “‘How the hell y’all doing?’” ♫ ♫ “‘How y’all feeling today?’” ♫ Aww, here we go again. So if you’ve ...
Miami Herald

Is rap on trial? How lyrics can be used against rappers in courtrooms

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 ...