UPDATE (11/9): Young Stoner Life's X account posted a link to a petition to push for legislation at the federal and state level to prohibit prosecutors from using rap lyrics in criminal trials. "The ...

After months of jury selection, the Fulton County case against the influential rapper known as Young Thug has begun in Atlanta. Prosecutors are using his lyrics as evidence in the racketeering case.

In a long-awaited decision sure to draw scrutiny, a Georgia judge ruled Nov. 9 that prosecutors will be allowed to admit rap lyrics as evidence at Grammy-winning artist Young Thug’s racketeering and ...