(CN) — This may have been the last music that Texas Trooper Bill Davidson heard before he was shot alongside a highway in 1992: “I got a nine-millimeter Glock pistol/I'm ready to get with you at the ...
Hip-hop, like any art form, is a means of creative expression. And while rap music is often semi-autobiographical, when Kanye West recorded in 2018, “I thought about killing you / Premeditated murder, ...
Lindsay Ell and her "Criminal" co-writers wrote the singer's first Top 20 hit backwards. It started with a guitar lick. Then came a verse, then fragments of a chorus ... eventually, they got to the ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Johnny Cash never shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but those lyrics could have come back to haunt him had he spoken from experience. In an effort to protect such creative ...
On May 17, New York State Senate approved a bill that would limit prosecutors’ use of song lyrics or other forms of “creative expression” as evidence in criminal cases. If passed, prosecutors would ...
In the history of hip-hop, some rappers have set out to murder the competition with lyrics that have ranged from vicious to downright violent. But a group of music stars — led by Brooklyn’s own Rock & ...
A criminal case involving handwritten lyrics to the classic rock megahit “Hotel California” and other Eagles favorites went to trial Wednesday in New York, with three men accused of scheming to thwart ...