NY takes first big step toward preventing lyrics from being used as evidence
The New York State Senate on Tuesday passed a law that would make it much more difficult to submit rap lyrics in criminal trials. The bill, believed to be the
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Jay Z, Killer Mike lend support to bill banning use of rap lyrics in criminal trials
In November 2020, the American Civil Liberties Union issued a statement arguing that using rap lyrics as evidence during a criminal trial was a violation of the First Amendment to
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Random music news for Tuesday, March 27, 2018
I really should pay more attention to what’s happening in Canadian politics but the shit show south of the border is such a car crash that I can’t look away.
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52 Albums That Changed My Life (and Other Exaggerations), Chapter 13: I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead
One of the most amazing things for a music lover is someone who blows you away instantly. That what you are seeing or hearing is someone who is talented. Someone
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Killer Mike Uses Leaked Hillary Clinton Email on Merch
Rapper and political activist Michael Render, better known as Killer Mike, put one of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails on shirts for sale. Short and relatively vague, the WikiLeaks-exposed text simply
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Random Music News for Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Off to Winnipeg for Christmas. It’ll be very white. And now, the music news. Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst has been banned from Ukraine for the next five years. Why can’t
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On this date in 1971, President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs. How’s that going, by the way? The Beastie Boys won $668,000 in their dispute with Monster Energy
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On this day 95 years ago, a Montreal station that went by the name XWA began broadcasting the first ever regular radio programming in North America and maybe the world.
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