THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT RAP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

A Muslim man claims his rap lyrics “I’m a doper for real,” were wrongfully included in his trial over distribution of the ...

Ravens players try to guess whether a line came from a rapper or famous Baltimore writer Edgar Allan Poe. Ravens CB Marlon Humphrey rakes in the votes for most likely to fake their birthday, most ...

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) BROOKLYN (CN) — Rap lyrics and videos from one of the men accused of killing Run-DMC member Jam Master Jay will not be permitted into evidence, a federal judge ruled ...

Papoose is taking it upon himself to join in the fight to keep rap lyrics from being criminalized and used as evidence at ...

Dallas singer 4batz rose from obscurity to a breathlessly awaited debut in barely a year — but his arrival is part of a tense ...

Researchers have estimated about 500 cases over the last 30 years have used rap lyrics against their artists on trial. Erik Nielson is one of the researchers who published that figure.

Music is a form of entertainment, and yet rap lyrics and videos are being used by prosecutors as “evidence” primarily against young, Black men. Abenaa Owusu-Bempah argues that this blurring of fact ...

The 17-year-old student, who says he is a member of the LGBTQ community, "occasionally freestyles rap lyrics with his friends." He devised the lyrics to his composition at a friend's house one ...