The Language of Hip Hop, a new longform data visualization by Matt Daniels, takes a deep dive into the lyrics of hip-hop to figure out what, precisely, makes the genre so compelling. “This was an ...

There are random weeks of my life spent exclusively listening to South Florida fast music, and this is one of them. To make fast music, DJs (who usually come from Broward County) take new Southern rap ...

As the high-profile criminal trial of rapper Young Thug began this week, Black rappers who have had their lyrics used against them by prosecutors as evidence of criminal activity have renewed calls to ...

As district attorneys across the country have used rap lyrics to build criminal cases against artists with growing frequency since the early 2000s, state lawmakers are looking to implement a legal ...

No one believes that country music legend Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. When Cash in 1968 released “Folsom Prison Blues,” a ballad about shooting and killing a man for no ...