Hip-Hop Icons Tell Justices That Texas Turned Rap Lyrics Into a Death Warrant

Killer Mike, Travis Scott, T.I. and other artists said James Broadnax was sent to death row in Texas based partly on his artistic expression.
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Texas Attorney and Hip-Hop Artists Challenge Use of Rap Lyrics in Dallas Death Penalty Sentencing

A coalition of artists, entertainers, music industry leaders and professors, including Grammy Award-winning rapper Killer Mike, Young Thug, T.I., Blackish ...

Travis Scott Tells Supreme Court Use of Rap Lyrics in Death Sentence Was Unconstitutional

Travis Scott, Killer Mike, and others have filed briefs with the Supreme Court in support of a Texas man whose rap lyrics were used in his sentencing.
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Travis Scott & more defend man after rap lyrics were used in death sentence

Travis Scott, T.I. and several other artists and scholars appealed the man's "unconstitutional" death sentence to the Supreme Court ...
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Travis Scott tells Supreme Court that rap lyrics were used unconstitutionally in death penalty case

Young Thug, Killer Mike, and more have also expressed support for similar arguments in response to the Texas sentencing.