Clipse, one of hip hop’s best duos, has returned with a new album after a 15-year hiatus. Pusha T and his brother No Malice, ...

Though rap music is the most listened to genre in the United States, it is still the only creative medium consistently being used to prosecute and incarcerate people. The ongoing criminal trial of ...

“The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap,” a 129-song boxed set, has a very challenging (and maybe impossible) goal: pinning down a constantly evolving genre.

He said rap is “targeted” by the criminal-justice system because no other art form is being used as evidence in criminal prosecutions. “Nobody believes that Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno ...

Behind the Music: Rap, Broadway, Life and Art Two documentaries — one about big-budget Broadway musicals and one about a Brooklyn program aimed at high-school rappers — make it clear that art ...

Rap Music Lyrics as Art, Life, and Criminal Evidence,” one intention for prosecutors to allow music lyrics to be used in the courtroom would be to redefine them as substantive evidence, ...

Criminal cases around the country have seen rap lyrics used as evidence. Los Angeles attorney Alan Jackson and Georgetown law professor Paul Butler weigh in on the fine line between art and evidence.

Rap Music Still Does Not Fit the Bill for an Art Review. ... (Arts in Review, June 15). Like most rap performers, Polo G peddles cheap, vulgar and laughably fake imagery about black life.

With suspense running high, Arthur — a music teacher at Hite Elementary School in Middletown and a rap music artist known as “1200” — told the students "MC" stands for "master of ceremonies." ...