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Killer Mike goes off: 'Right now, in this country, your freedom of speech is at risk'
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn a keynote address on freedom of speech, Run the Jewels rapper Killer Mike called on Americans to...
Musician Travis Leake spoke up about freedom of speech in Russia with Anthony Bourdain in 2014. Now...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe 2014 episode of Parts Unknown set in Moscow and St Petersburg has been called one of the “most...
Music industry backs bill to limit use of rap lyrics in federal court amid Young Thug indictment
ABC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTop music industry leaders, including the Recording Academy, are backing legislation introduced in...
Lawmakers Are Trying To Ban Using Lyrics in Criminal Trials — Again
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCongressmen Hank Johnson (D-GA) and Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) have reintroduced the Restoring Artist...
Hong Kong court rejects government bid to ban protest song citing freedom of expression
The Independent UK via AOL· 10 months agoA Hong Kong court rejected the government's appeal to place a ban on broadcasting and distributing a...
Art or evidence? Closest U.S. Supreme Court has looked at rap lyrics is for ‘true threat’
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe closest the U.S. Supreme Court has come to assessing whether rap lyrics can be used in...
California Bill Limiting Use of Rap Lyrics in Criminal Trials Signed Into Law by Gov. Gavin Newsom
People via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMonica Schipper/Getty for Bloomberg Philanthropies California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a...
As Young Thug awaits trial, the push to limit the use of rap lyrics in court gains bipartisan...
ABC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe indictment of rapper Young Thug on gang-related charges in May 2022 sparked a movement in the...
RAP Act introduced in Congress to bar use of lyrics as evidence in court cases
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA new bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives will seek to protect artists from having...
Man raps about raping kids and killing grandma, Arkansas cops say. He pleads not guilty
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAn Arkansas man accused of putting threatening lyrics in his rap music has pleaded not guilty,...