Judicial War on Rap: The Music Genre’s Humble Beginnings to the Courtroom
[1] During the 1960s and early 1970s in the Bronx, New York, hip hop culture was born from the African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Latino inner-city communities as a transformative response to economic hardship and social exclusion. [2] The genre has evolved into today’s Rap music genre and grows considerably in modern-day American culture. [3] As a consequence, American jurisprudence has increasingly used Rap lyricism as evidence in connection with artists alleged civil or criminal...
