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 ...

If you meet McKinley Phipps now, he's a far cry from the 20-year-old, chart-climbing rapper known as Mac, signed to music mogul Master P's No Limit Records, whose 1998 album "Shell Shocked" reached No ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the business and law of music. Two men were convicted in federal court on Tuesday in Brooklyn of murdering Jason ...

Young Thug performs onstage at the 2022 SXSW Conference on March 17, 2022, in Austin, Tex. (Amy E. Price / Getty Images for SXSW) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree ...

The first time Erik Nielson testified in the trial of an aspiring rapper, it was nearly a decade ago in Ventura County. An Ojai Valley teen named Alex Medina had been charged with first-degree murder ...

Young Thug's lyrics are used as alleged evidence in a RICO indictment. Young Thug is a burgeoning rapper known for pushing the envelope, both musically and as a fashion icon. He became an influential ...

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 ...

Gary Bryant Jr. exchanged gunfire with a man in an Antioch apartment parking lot on a July afternoon in 2014. Both were struck by bullets. Bryant survived and the other man died. Police said it was ...

The Decriminalizing Artistic Expression Act restricts the use of rap lyrics during criminal trials in the state Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at ...

Federal prosecutors are pushing to use Bronx drill rapper Kay Flock’s lyrics as evidence, arguing his music serves as a direct confession to violent crimes. Kay Flock could spend the rest of his life ...

A firsthand rap account of life in Andhra Pradesh goes viral, prompting AP Minister Nara Lokesh to welcome the message and ...