/New York Times Hip-Hop artists give the Supreme Court a primer on rap music

New York Times Hip-Hop artists give the Supreme Court a primer on rap music

In 2015, The Clarion Ledger reported that they are standing up for Taylor Bell who was four years ago a high school student from Mississippi in the Itawamba Schools District. For posting a song that contained explicit lyrics about coaches who were alleged to have been inappropriately towards female students, he was disqualified. The rappers urged the justices to consider a Bell appeal in their brief. The case was not heard by the high court. Four years later, the same artists are back before the Supreme Court to present another case. This is in the hope that the justices will again provide clarity in the online debate about student speech. According to The New York Times, a group from hip-hop will be providing expert assistance to the justices this week in a case involving a Pittsburgh rapper who threatened the police with a song. They urged the Supreme Court Wednesday to hear their fellow rapper’s First Amendment challenge of his conviction. They filed a brief Wednesday asking the Supreme Court to hear their fellow rapper’s First Amendment challenge to his conviction.