Wednesday, 3 May 2017

'Rap on Trial': Why Lyrics Should Be Off-Limits

On the afternoon of March 16th, 2017, aspiring rapper Anthony Murillo stood to hear the jury's verdict – the culmination of a weeklong trial in which prosecutors argued that he had used a rap song to threaten two female students at his Santa Maria, California, high school.

Like hundreds of rappers before him, Murillo found himself the target of an increasingly popular law

This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: 'Rap on Trial': Why Lyrics Should Be Off-Limits



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