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Sweden’s new Minister of Culture Jeanette Gustafsdotter says she wants to investigate the links between gangster rap music and gang crime to see if the music leads to gang activity.

British-born Grime Rapper Ceon Broughton had his manslaughter conviction overturned by the High Court on Tuesday, as the court found his providing a lethal dose of a hallucinogenic drug to his former girlfriend and his failure to seek medical attention

LONDON (AP) – London’s police are investigating after a stream of anti-Semitic comments were posted on British grime artist Wiley’s social media accounts. Twitter banned the rapper for seven days after rants on Friday and Saturday. He was also dropped

A British rapper threw objects from the stage at the audience and harassed the female host of the NME music awards show.

Hong Kong’s wealthiest man, Li Ka-shing, bought multiple front-page newspaper ads Friday encouraging protesters to “love China” and “love [the] rule of law.”

Thirteen people were arrested at Paris’s Orly airport following a mass brawl between rival French rappers which forced the authorities to shut down an entire terminal.

Advancing his efforts to build bonds between community and law enforcement, California rapper The Game convened a secret meeting this week attended by more than 100 black celebrities, activists and the mayor of Compton, Aja Brown.

“Remember the debate they had before Florida, where four of them were up there calling each other liar over everybody’s voice?” former president Bill Clinton said about the GOP candidates. “They sounded like a rap tune on MTV.”

TEL AVIV – A twice-converted black rapper and YouTube sensation from Seattle is heading to Israel to make a new life for himself as an Orthodox Jew, the Times of Israel reported. Nissim Baruch Black of Seattle, Washington, features on

A 22-year-old Yemeni rapper, who has become the first high-profile female artist of her kind in the troubled Arab nation, is receiving threats. Amani Yahya fled to Saudi Arabia due to the civil war engulfing Yemen and has dedicated her artistic career to shining a light on the suffering of Yemeni women and defying cultural norms for women in the devout Muslim nation.

Protests continued throughout the day in Los Angeles Saturday featuring DJ Mustard, rappers TYGA and The Game, and some rather antagonistic activists well into the night.