Photo: George Douglas Peterson via SoundCloud Eighteen-year-old Michael Schmitt of West Caldwell, New Jersey is facing up to 10 years in prison, reports Buzzfeed, after posting a controversial rap on his SoundCloud profile, illschmitt✖︎ ✖︎, alluding to violence […]
Terrence Sims’ sixth grade students at the Milwaukee Excellence Charter School rapping in the official video for ‘Excellence First!’; Photo: Terrence Sims/YouTube A group of sixth graders at the Milwaukee Excellence Charter School in Milwaukee, WI have […]
Hasson Hedgepeth’s, a.k.a. Young Bo, profile picture on Soundcloud; Photo: Young Bo/Soundcloud A questionable rapper who’s on trial for murder now has to answer for his lyrics, which allegedly rap about killing someone, according to […]
In 2014 alone there were numerous cases that saw lyrics used in court as evidence, in some instances as a means to indict — Markest D. Thompson, Antwain Steward, and Vonte Skinner to name a few. […]
As rap and hip-hop culture has evolved – from its infancy on the corner of Cedar and Sedgwick to what it is today, a multibillion dollar industry with global sway – a startling trend has emerged. […]
At times it seems like we’re moving in endless circles like a ferris wheel caught in some twisted carnival, seemingly progressive one moment in that we can entertain ideas like space travel, but hopelessly doomed the next as our […]
