Yes Magazine - Though rap music is
the most listened to genre in the United States, it is still the only
creative medium consistently being used to prosecute and incarcerate
people. The ongoing criminal trial of Grammy-winning artist Young Thug
exposed this prosecutorial tactic to many people for the first time, but
it’s in no way a new practice, with nearly 700 documented cases of
lyrics being used to criminalize artists, predominantly young Black and
Latino men.As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial, a documentary by J.M. Harper, Emmy-nominated director of jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy,
intricately examines the evolution of racist attitudes and actions
toward Black music genres that spans centuries, connecting the current
legal weaponization of rap music to a long-standing history of
Black musical genres being deemed immoral and illegal. More
Online report of the Progressive Review. Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it.
May 24, 2024
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