Jun
12
2017
Student studies the danger of using rap music in criminal trials
Negative perceptions of rap music and rappers threaten to sway juries in criminal trials.
In cases across the U.S., criminal investigators have been treating rap lyrics as confession evidence rather than as art or entertainment. The aspiring rappers’ lyrics – found on scraps of paper, in online rap videos, on Facebook posts and in other places – become courtroom evidence.