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Column: America loves rap, not Black people. Don't be fooled because this bill protects lyrics
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoYoung Thug performs at the Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago on Aug. 1, 2021. (Amy Harris /...
Sundance 2024: Will Ferrell, Kristen Stewart, Lionel Richie and more in L.A. Times Studios
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoDirectors and their stars, such as Richard Linklater, "Beef" Emmy winner Steven Yeun, "Your...
Young Thug Adds Hip-Hop Experts To Witness List For YSL RICO Trial
VIBE via Yahoo News· 1 year agoYoung Thug’s legal team has submitted the rapper’s witness list as he prepares to face trial and...
In Florida and across the U.S., here’s where — and how — rap lyrics have made it to court
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIn Florida, rapper YNW Melly’s double murder retrial looms in 2024. Meanwhile, in Georgia, Young...
Democrats Propose ‘RAP Act’ to Ban Lyrics from Being Used as Evidence
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 2 years agoReps. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) and Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) on Wednesday introduced the Restoring Artistic...
California governor Gavin Newsom signs bill limiting use of rap lyrics as evidence in court
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a landmark bill into law restricting the use of rap lyrics...
Is rap on trial? How lyrics can be used against rappers in courtrooms
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNo one believes that country music legend Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die....
Rap lyrics can't be used as evidence against hip-hop artists in California anymore
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom looks on during a visit the Antioch Water Treatment Plant on August 11,...
Rap Just Erupted Into Its Own Infinity War. There’s Nothing “Enlightened” About Sitting It Out.
Slate via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOn Friday at midnight, an already historic rap beef metastasized into an all-out hip-hop Infinity...
Free speech, finally: How new state laws could save rappers (and others) from their own lyrics
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMonths after New Orleans-based hip hop artist Mac Phipps was granted clemency for a crime he...