Fani Willis Challenger Pledges to End Prosecution of Rapper Young Thug
Courtney Kramer, a Republican candidate for District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, is pledging to put an end to Fani Willis’s prosecution of rapper Young Thug.
Courtney Kramer, a Republican candidate for District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, is pledging to put an end to Fani Willis’s prosecution of rapper Young Thug.
The rapper known as Money Man is the latest hip-hop artist to endorse former President Donald Trump’s bid to retake the White House in November, saying “I don’t think Democrats done s**t for us.”
The Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times published a feature promoting the career of Ghanaian-born, Chengdu-based rapper Foster Asare-Yeboah on Wednesday, a sign that the Communist Party is returning to its policy of promoting regime-friendly rap music after attempting to ban hip-hop generally for years.
The rap song “Boycott Target” continues to be a chart-topper as the consumer boycott against Target is still going strong following the retailer’s ill-fated decision to promote gay pride-themed apparel for children.
The rap song “Boycott Target” has jumped past singles by superstars Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen to become the number one song on iTunes on Tuesday.
The new rap single “Boycott Target” surged to the No. 2 spot on iTunes’ hip-hop chart on Monday, just days after being released in the wake of the controversy over the retailer’s decision to push gay and transgender -themed apparel for children.
Iconic Grammy-winning rapper Coolio, most famous for his hit song “Gangstas Paradise,” died on Wednesday while visiting his friend in Los Angeles.
Sweden’s new Minister of Culture Jeanette Gustafsdotter says she wants to investigate the links between gangster rap music and gang crime to see if the music leads to gang activity.
YouTube deleted an anti-Biden music video from conservative rapper Bryson Gray this past week for allegedly pushing “medical misinformation.”
China’s Global Times celebrated the debut of a music video by communist rap group “CD Rev” on Monday demanding the United States allow investigators into a U.S. Army facility the Communist Party has claimed for months, without evidence, may be the true origin of the Chinese coronavirus.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced Tuesday that it has begun the process of compiling a “blacklist” of songs that “endanger national unity” that the Communist Party will ban from karaoke machines and bars.
A professor at the University of Michigan-Flint says that Harvard University hosting a music program open to “all BIPOC students” is a Title VI violation.
The Chinese Communist Party began promoting a hip-hop anthem on Tuesday featuring 100 different rappers celebrating 100 years of communism, praising the “Red Army,” “high-speed trains,” and 5G technology.
A Queens mom was outraged recently when she realized her son’s Zoom economics class at a Brooklyn high school featured rap videos of drug deals, prostitutes, and off-color language.
High school student Mimi Groves of Leesburg, Virginia, was forced to withdraw from the University of Tennessee as a result of a smear campaign launched by one of her classmates. Groves was pressured to withdraw from the university after student Jimmy Galligan shared a three-second video from 2016 of Groves using a racial slur while singing along with a rap song.
Omar Mena, a Cuban rapper known as “El Analista” (“the Analyst”), reportedly disappeared overnight after police raided his home on Monday. Mena was planning a peaceful sit-in against communism for Tuesday.
A French rapper from a migrant-background has released a song bragging about “the Great Replacement” theory of rapid demographic change in the Western world.
Rapper-actor 50 Cent has blasted Comcast CEO Brian Roberts in a profane Instagram rant, accusing the executive of “f**king up” the hit Starz drama series Power.
Kanye West planned to give up rap music after converting to Christianity earlier this year, according to his pastor, who says West told him that the genre is “the devil’s music.”
A Cuban rapper who sewed his mouth shut last month and is refusing to eat is reportedly in a “delicate” physical state, forcing the repressive communist regime to consider moving him out of prison into a nearby hospital.
Cuban rapper “Pupito en Sy” announced a hunger strike in solidarity with fellow hip-hop artist Maykel Castillo “El Osorbo,” who last week sewed his mouth shut while in prison to protest Cuba’s impending ban on “unauthorized” music.
China’s state newspaper Global Times published a feature Tuesday celebrating the sudden enthusiasm in the online fantasy writer community for “red stories,” or propaganda that promotes the government’s “core socialist values.”
A Catholic priest in Kenya has reportedly been suspended from serving his church after rapping to his congregation as a way of preaching the gospel, according to local media.
The Chinese government-run newspaper Global Times published a feature yesterday on rapper Wang Yifan, a “patriotic” hip-hop artist recently embroiled in controversy after performing a freestyle at Pennsylvania State University warning students that China “will make Americans call us ‘daddy.'”
Having arrested native rapper Namewee for releasing a music video that allegedly “insulted Islam,” Malaysian officials are demanding Interpol help find the Taiwanese rap group Jiu Yi Yi (911), who are also featured in the video.
A Chinese rap group has released a song alleging to show the world the “real” China, claiming that its businessmen and “vaccination issue” are the nation’s biggest problems, while praising the Communist Party’s crushing gun control measures and asserting that all Chinese and Taiwanese reject the idea of Taiwanese sovereignty.
During his trip to Vietnam this week, President Obama informed the country’s top female rapper that sexism and gender stereotyping is a feature of the American music industry, just as it is in Vietnam.
A rapper on Chicago’s South Side was shot and killed early Tuesday morning while rapping about guns for a music video in a local park.
A Massachusetts DJ who was cited for disorderly conduct has been fined for playing N.W.A.’s 1988 song “F—k tha Police,” as police officers attempted to clear an overcrowded bar last fall.
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense is using a rap video to lure recruits into the Afghan National Army (ANA).
Rapper/R&B singer Chris Brown took to social media this week to urge those planning on protesting Donald Trump rallies to travel in large groups so as to be better protected when altercations break out.
Marco Rubio’s recent controversies with law enforcement — including slamming ICE officer Chris Crane as a conspiracy theorist and suggesting America’s cops are racist — could draw new attention to earlier comments from Senator Rubio about his musical tastes.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has made his first appearance in a rap music video; the state-sponsored single, “The Reform Group is Two Years Old,” celebrates a Communist Party reform committee’s persecution of allegedly corrupt party officials.
Longtime Obama supporter and New York-based rapper Nas posted a picture to Instagram Saturday showing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s graffitied face with his mouth open on a bathroom wall behind a urinal.
M.I.A. has released a music video for her new single “Borders,” which shows the British rapper taking on the European migrant crisis.
Parents are furious and confused after learning that students at John Fiske Elementary School were asked by their music teacher to research controversial Chicago rapper Chief Keef, who is known more for his lengthy arrest record than his album sales.
In a recent appearance on The Breakfast Club radio program, Washington D.C.-based rapper Wale went on a rant against Black Lives Matter and The View co-host Raven-Symoné.
Before the movie begins, over the opening Universal Pictures logo, director F. Gary Gray’s “Straight Outta Compton” opens with the sound that came to define South Central Los Angeles in the late 80’s and early 90’s — the sound of
Rapper 50 Cent, whose legal name is Curtis Jackson, is about to dole out a lot more than 50 cents after a court found him guilty of releasing video of a sexual encounter featuring a woman without her consent.