Clean rap songs have become essential for classrooms, family trips, parties, and workplace events where explicit lyrics are not appropriate. They offer the same energetic beats, clever wordplay, and ...

MARTINEZ — Weeks after a famous Bay Area rapper was arrested on murder charges, prosecutors in Contra Costa have publicly released details from the investigation into the 2021 killing, presenting a ...

Rapper Waka Flocka Flame performed at the CMA Fest in Nashville. He debuted a new country song titled "45" with singer Jake Banfield. Waka Flocka Flame also participated in a panel discussing the ...

A Florida principal was placed on administrative leave after a Fetty Wap lyric appeared next to her name in the school yearbook. The rapper is sending flowers to the former principal, who says she ...

The Kansas Supreme Court is reviewing whether rap lyrics can be used as evidence in a homicide conviction. Deon Eugene Austin was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for a ...

*After languishing on death row in Texas for nearly two decades, James G. Broadnax was executed on April 30, 2026. In 2009, a nearly all-white jury convicted him of robbery and double murder. Broadnax ...

OAKLAND — In their bid to keep a North Richmond rapper behind bars while his firearm possession case is pending, federal prosecutors have gone onto YouTube, highlighting lyrics in years-old songs as ...

An upcoming execution in Texas has gained the attention of prominent rappers like Travis Scott and T.I. for the questions it raises about the place rap lyrics have in the courtroom and how justice is ...

When he was 19, James Broadnax jotted down rap lyrics, thoughts and even job leads in a notebook that would become evidence at his capital murder trial. Prosecutors selected lyrics with alleged ...

A Brooklyn rapper with a popular new song was fatally shot by his stepson when he confronted the teen about smoking weed near the boy’s pregnant mom, police said Tuesday. Tristan Hightower, 16, ...

An aspiring rapper who just had a song start to take off after years of husting was shot to death by his 16-year-old stepson during an argument over smoking inside their Brooklyn NYCHA apartment, the ...

Vallejo community members on Wednesday rallied around rapper LaRussell as he faces backlash over a new song that mentions Adolf Hitler. LaRussell, who was born in Vallejo, released the song called ...