Adrian Valdez has been making music since he was a teenager, sharing his experience with addiction, trauma, heartbreak and loss. The 32-year-old Lodi resident has been able to turn his past pains into ...

The Supreme Court is currently deliberating on free speech, and rap lyrics are at the center of the conversation. Elonis v. United States is a case about a Pennsylvania man, Anthony Elonis ...

Elonis had been found guilty of posting on Facebook rap lyrics containing violent language and imagery concerning his ex-wife, coworkers and law enforcement. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed Elonis ...

A U.S. appeals court affirmed his conviction after the U.S. Supreme Court said the jury should have weighed his intent and not just the rap lyrics he posted. Elonis also was arrested by ...

the United States ruling. Anthony Elonis posted threats on social media, in a skit and in rap lyrics targeting former co-workers, his estranged wife and elementary schools. When FBI agents visited ...

Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis is unabashed in using rap lyrics to help prosecute her cases, repeatedly defending the practice in recent months. It’s a tactic hip-hop artists have ...

Elonis’ lawyer, Assistant Federal Defender ... He argued the posts were rap lyrics and protected by free speech. The conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 2015 ruling that ...

Elonis, too, employed a sobriquet – Tone Dougie – and social media in posting an array of threats in a skit and in rap lyrics he posted online. Among his purported targets were employees of an ...