(CN) — This may have been the last music that Texas Trooper Bill Davidson heard before he was shot alongside a highway in 1992: “I got a nine-millimeter Glock pistol/I'm ready to get with you at the ...

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 ...

Rapper Tiny Doo faces charges that his rap lyrics allowed him to benefit monetarily from a crime fellow gang members allegedly committed. “As far as using rap lyrics as evidence, there is a general ...

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The White House trolled pop star Sabrina Carpenter with her own lyrics Tuesday after she slammed the Trump administration for ...

Over the past few months, rap fans have placed more and more scrutiny on prosecutors who use rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials against hip-hop artists. While “hip-hop cops” have long been ...

A first-of-its-kind federal bill comes as Young Thug and Gunna sit in jail over charges that heavily cite their lyrics. By Bill Donahue A proposed law introduced in Congress on Tuesday (July 27) would ...

Just a few days ago, Code Switch wrote about the use violent hip-hop lyrics as evidence in criminal cases, a practice that some critics say violates defendants' First Amendment rights and plays up ...

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