Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Hip-hop is bigger than ever, as it’s the most-consumed genre of ...

Over the past few months, rap fans have placed more and more scrutiny on prosecutors who use rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials against hip-hop artists. While “hip-hop cops” have long been ...

SALEM — Should music, specifically rap lyrics, be considered evidence in a court of law? This is a question jurors nationally and in the Salem Superior Court are grappling with. Unique evidence in the ...

This week, in a New York district court, one of music’s least sympathetic characters, the Brooklyn rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, took the stand to testify against alleged members of the Nine Trey Gangsta ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a judicial opinion filed last month, The State of Maryland’s highest court ruled that rap lyrics may be admitted in court as ...

ATLANTA — A judge ruled on Thursday that song lyrics will be allowed as evidence under certain conditions in the Young Slime Life RICO trial. Channel 2′s Michael Seiden was inside the courtroom as ...

He is considered one of the most influential names in modern rap. But the Grammy-winning Atlanta-based artist is at the center of a racketeering or "RICO" trial. Jeffrey Lamar Williams, known ...

Can a criminal defendant's own rap lyrics serve as evidence against him in court? It appears they can be, and the music industry is crying foul. As reported in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, ...

ATLANTA -- Young Thug is a burgeoning rapper known for pushing the envelope, both musically and as a fashion icon. He became an influential voice in his generation of artists -- blowing up on the ...