While at home after school in January 2011, Taylor Bell, then a senior at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi, posted a rap song on Facebook (and later YouTube) to protest two gym coaches’ perverted behavior. The song was entitled “PS Koaches” or “PSK The Truth Needs To Be Told” (likely a nod to […]
Karlanna Lewis
Karlanna Lewis , originally from Tallahassee, Florida, is a recent graduate of Yale Law School where she led a course on criminal law through the lens of hip hop. She is also an aspiring MC and plans to release her first mixtape soon. Follow her on twitter at @klannathebird.
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Hip Hop Is Down by Law (Just Don’t Take it to the Court)
In 1992, a California jury convicted Offord Rollins, IV, of murdering his former girlfriend. Rollins was a nationally ranked high school triple jumper and an aspirant for Olympic gold. But he was also an amateur rapper, the author of lyrics such as: Let me go, Let me go Bitch let me go She wouldn’t let […]
