Art Not Evidence group wants change in law that currently allows lyrics by defendants to be presented as evidence of gang affiliation Campaigners are urging ministers to change the law so that music ...

WHAT EVIDENCE IS ALLOWED IN COURT. THE DECRIMINALIZING ARTISTIC EXPRESSION ACT WAS PASSED INTO LAW IN 2022. IT LIMITS THE USE OF RAP LYRICS IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AND GIVES ARTISTS NEW TOOLS TO ...

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 ...

Hip-hop celebrated its fiftieth anniversary two years ago, and from its early renegade beginnings to becoming a big fish in the mainstream, many a clever lyric has been turned out by talented rhymers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Columbia, gives his victory speech after defeating Democrat Maryam Abolfazli. The watch party was at ...

“Talking to my shadow, he advised me not to worry / Said I should plant my tree and let it rise out of the fury” Slug of Atmosphere is all about positivity, and on the title track of the duo’s second ...

I remember the first time I heard Angie Stone. No, it wasn’t the “No More Rain (In This Cloud),” which samples Gladys Knight and The Pips’ “Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye).” ...

Federal prosecutors are pushing to use Bronx drill rapper Kay Flock’s lyrics as evidence, arguing his music serves as a direct confession to violent crimes. Kay Flock could spend the rest of his life ...

Merely singing about shooting a sheriff would not convict Bob Marley of murder, no more than writing about burying a man under the floorboards would convict Edgar Allen Poe. But rapping about "a ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – A Syracuse man’s rap music video played for a jury showed him raising his arm and miming firing a gun. The lyrics included a line that a gang expert says refers to a rival gang and a ...