Though there haven’t been many outstanding projects in the decade so far, the year definitely revived the art of cohesive ...

1996 marked a turning point in hip-hop production. The boom-bap that dominated early ’90s New York started fragmenting into ...

NASA's alien-hunting Europa Clipper spacecraft took seven hours of ultraviolet observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while both objects zoom toward Jupiter. When you purchase through links on ...

WHAT EVIDENCE IS ALLOWED IN COURT. THE DECRIMINALIZING ARTISTIC EXPRESSION ACT WAS PASSED INTO LAW IN 2022. IT LIMITS THE USE OF RAP LYRICS IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AND GIVES ARTISTS NEW TOOLS TO ...

Hip-hop originated in the Bronx, serving as a medium for Black artists to express struggles related to systemic issues like poverty, violence, and racism; rap lyrics are often misinterpreted in legal ...

Drake lost, but artistic freedom won last week when a federal court in New York dismissed the rapper’s case against UMG Recordings. The decision did more than end one of rap’s most publicized legal ...

Brooklyn Man Gets New Trial Due To Faulty Analysis of Rap Lyrics Brooklyn Man Convicted In Shooting Gets New Trial After Judge Tosses Rap Lyrics “Expert” Testimony Idrissa Reaves, who was convicted in ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

He’s getting a second chance to beat the rap. A Brooklyn man convicted of helping a killer pull off a 2016 shooting will get a new trial, after a state appeals court ruled that the judge in the case ...

A rap song written and performed by a Brooklyn man who was in jail at Rikers Island was wrongly used as evidence against him, and his criminal conviction must be reversed, a Brooklyn appeals court ...

England is once again on top of the football world. The women’s national team beat Spain in penalties to win the 2025 EURO tournament and bring the trophy home. The country is also making a major ...