What Rap Lyrics Teach Students About Storytelling and Persuasion

Rap isn’t just entertainment. It’s applied writing. Every strong verse uses voice, structure, evidence, and emotional control ...
The Lantern

This Year in Music: Rap battle of the year

This story is the second installment of a three-part series discussing major changes in popular music throughout the course of 2024. Today’s story focuses on the current state of rap music. This year ...
Miami Herald

Is rap on trial? How lyrics can be used against rappers in courtrooms

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 ...
The Harvard Crimson

Is Art Evidence? Rap’s Right in Court

Opening statements for the trial of Young Thug and Young Stoner Life Records (YSL) began on Nov. 27, over a year and a half after Young Thug’s May 2022 Georgia indictment. The prosecution alleges that ...