The use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal prosecutions has been a contentious issue for decades, stirring debates over free speech ... "dope rhyme dealer, not a money stealer," the jury ...

In this environment, amid Cash App's anti-compliance free-for ... in their lyrics may be putting a target on their back. The justice system is already eager to criminalize rap lyrics, and now ...

It is far from the first to enlist rap music as ... a genre that uses grisly lyrics, at a recent trial. “If rapping about a sunny day in the neighbourhood made the most money, many young African ...

When rapper Young Thug goes to trial later this month on gang and racketeering charges, prosecutors will be allowed to use rap lyrics as evidence against him, a judge ruled Thursday.

A judge ruled Thursday that rap lyrics can be admitted as evidence in ... with others for the common purposes of illegally obtaining money and property through a pattern of racketeering activity ...