Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Hip-hop is bigger than ever, as it’s the most-consumed genre of ...

Exclusive: I spoke to Marco Paglia, Chief Product Officer at Musixmatch, about how lyrics are changing the game for musicians ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the high-profile criminal trial of rapper Young Thug began this week, Black rappers who have had their lyrics used against them ...

Hip-hop, a genre born from the struggles and realities of inner-city communities, has long been a powerful platform for social commentary. Its raw lyricism, often depicting violence, drug dealing, and ...

No one believes that country music legend Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. When Cash in 1968 released “Folsom Prison Blues,” a ballad about shooting and killing a man for no ...

A federal judge has rejected music publishers' request to prohibit artificial intelligence company Anthropic from using copyrighted lyrics to train its large language models. In a ruling issued ...

Using rap lyrics as evidence is controversial, but an Atlanta judge says it's fair game in a looming criminal trial against one of hip hop's biggest stars. By Bill Donahue An Atlanta judge ruled ...

READ ALOUD in court, the words sounded like a confession: “Fuck the judge…this that mob life…cookin’ white brick.” Not long ago the defendant, Jeffery Williams, was rapping these lines on stage. Now ...