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Rapper was arrested on drug trafficking charges.

Expect it to be memoryholed quickly.

“This that Malcolm X s***, revolutionary."

Black rapper wouldn't let lifeless bodies stop his show.

He defrauded a COVID relief program to pay child support and buy jewelry.

The black nationalist started a group called Zulu Nation.

He could have shown Lincoln and Douglas how it's done.

Black writer demands more from Congress than a Hip Hop History Month.

The rapper's mother blames "racist" police.

The suspects are members of rapper DaBaby's entourage.

The shooting happened outside a rap concert.

"[I]f you're going to kill me, at least I get to take someone with me."

At least six rappers and one music producer were shot to death in Atlanta last year.

"[A]rbiter of civility and keeper of social order" she is not.

Black privilege.

Black killer posted the bodies of his white victims on Instagram.

Trump ends his presidency on a low note.

Police say it was a gang-related feud.

Headline says it all.

“You gotta sell cocaine, I can just file a claim."

"White men like Trump need to be banished."

“These crimes shock the conscience."

Poison distilled into sound.

Betrayed by those who ought to be our friends.

Even in non-English-speaking countries

Arbery claimed he was doing nothing wrong.

It may have started as a social media feud between rappers.

Qaw'mane Wilson at sentencing: "Nobody loved my mother more than me."

An account of black-on-black brutality.

The South is now turning non-white more quickly than other parts of the country.

“Like these whites took us as slaves we should take them as slaves and treat them even worse.”

Why does he care about A$AP Rocky?

He still faces charges for a 2017 murder in San Antonio.

His grandfather: “'All he did was go to work and come home.”

Saying that rap lyrics are lewd is racist.

It’s not incitement to violence; it’s “art.”

A 33-year-old rapper’s bold proposal.

He embodied the "crisscrossing and crosscutting ways of global blackness."

Funeral featured bandana salesmen, ATVs doing wheelies, and a drive-by shooting.

Things like this didn’t happen at Perry Como’s funeral.

She felt like she had to do it "to make a living."

Some blacks consider it a "Cosby-esque jab."

Jussie Smollett spread hatred for white America.

He and an acomplice staged the murder to look like a drive-by shooting.

Perp was an adopted Haitian orphan.

He’s defended by a white lawyer.

He promised aspiring models work and attacked them when they were alone.

Some want him charged with hate speech.

The video shows a white man being tortured, shot, and hanged.

Blacks made up 58 percent of gun homicide victims in 2016.

Dr. Windell Boutte is facing seven malpractice lawsuits.

He points out the degeneracy of Nigeria.

“Don’t stop, man. Don’t stop. Whoever stopping get it too, man.”

Trump’s popularity among black males jumped from 11 percent to 22 percent after Kanye West’s tweet.

Black police commissioner thinks white cops are to blame.

Apologizes “for all the things that the police have done dating back 200 years.”

The first Pulitzer ever awarded to a pop musician is just not enough.

#MeToo doesn’t care.

Ukraine may be poor, but it is white.

The Chinese government has limited air time for "artists with tattoos, hip hop music."

Blacture is to be the “go-to” destination for seeing the “state of black America today.”

It was my introduction to sanity.

Why we must unite across class lines.

But Latin music has the highest growth rate.

It’s not clear who said it, but someone’s got to be fired.

Obama praises rappers despite their vulgar, misogynistic lyrics.

Album is titled "Make America Crip Again."

And it will crush Eminem and his corporate "homies."

Rapper tells fans to side with him or Trump.

Hip-hop in university is important for educating blacks.

Surprisingly good sense from Piers Morgan.

"I'm the s**t I'm fartin', I don't know how to potty."

DACAmnesty would mean betrayal.

The strange fruit of hip hop.

The rapper was worried his fans would think less of him.