Rapper A$AP Rocky charged with assault over fight in Sweden
A$AP Rocky's case has drawn the attention of fellow recording artists as well as U.S. President Donald Trump.
How a city reckons with its ‘Straight Outta Compton’ roots
N.W.A.’s seminal album “Straight outta Compton” painted the Los Angeles area city as a hotbed for gang banging and drug dealing. But long after its 1988 debut, its residents have been working to change that image: Compton is not what…
New Jersey court strikes down murder conviction based on violent rap lyrics
This week, the New Jersey State Supreme Court overturned, by a vote of 6-0, the attempted murder conviction of an aspiring rapper and small-time drug dealer named Vonte Skinner, arguing that the extensive reading of Skinner’s violent rap lyrics during…
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