Prosecutors love to cite rap as criminal evidence, but artists and advocates are waging an increasingly successful effort to ...

Rap artists have filed Supreme Court briefs in the case of a Texas death row inmate whose rap lyrics were used against him at ...

Attorneys for a Black man scheduled to be executed in Texas say the introduction of rap lyrics he wrote biased an almost ...

Maryland just passed a law that stops prosecutors from using rap lyrics against artists in court, protecting creative expression with a four-pronged test judges must follow.

The man accused of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay can’t have his rap lyrics used against him at trial, a Brooklyn judge decided Tuesday in a ruling that doubled as a history-filled paean to hip-hop ...

James Broadnax was found guilty of a double murder almost 20 years ago. He's scheduled to die on April 30, but his cousin has ...

An innovative James Cook University experiment has found rap-related cues shape how people judge a hypothetical fan accused ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law on Friday that limits the use of rap lyrics in criminal court cases in California. The law requires "a court, in a criminal proceeding ...

Mural by Kenya D. Lawton of Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell) Photo by Al Pereira/Getty Images/Michael Ochs Archives) Two men were convicted in federal court on Tuesday in Brooklyn of murdering Jason “Jam ...