On the afternoon of March 16th, 2017, aspiring rapper Anthony Murillo stood to hear the jury’s verdict – the culmination of a weeklong trial in which prosecutors argued that he had used a rap ...

Allen had allegedly performed Campbell's song on stage with him, giving him special access to the work. In 2021, Senior U.S. District Court Judge Charles Pannell, a Bill Clinton appointee, sided with ...

The Restoring Artistic Protection Act (RAP Act) seeks to protect artists from the the use of their lyrics against them as evidence in court. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

A Trump-loving rap song has been pulled from streaming services under pressure of copyright infringement. Blow re-uploaded "Trump Trump Baby" to YouTube on Friday afternoon; however, the ...

Rap Genius is more than a repository for lyrics; it’s an ongoing annotative project in collaboration with many music makers and fans to analyze and preserve lyrics.

In her 2019 book on the subject, Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America, Dennis and co-author Erik Nielson say they’ve identified roughly 500 cases using rap music over ten years of ...

Hip-hop, like any art form, is a means of creative expression. And while rap music is often semi-autobiographical, when Kanye West recorded in 2018, “I thought about killing you / Premeditated ...

In their book Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America, Erik Nielson and Andrea Dennis trace the practice of using rap music against criminal defendants to 1991, when lyrics written by ...

SALEM — Should music, specifically rap lyrics, be considered evidence in a court of law? This is a question jurors nationally and in the Salem Superior Court are grappling with.

While looking at some of Elisabeth Fosslien‘s rap lyrics in chart form last night, it occurred to me rap music lends itself perfectly to graphical representation. Charting rap lyrics is nothing ...