The legislation, titled the Restoring Artistic Protection Act (RAP Act), intends to address the persecution of rappers’ by way of their lyrics. According to a press release about the act, over the last two years, prosecutors have cited an artist’s lyrics as evidence against them in over 500 criminal cases.

The press release also mentions that the act “adds a presumption to the Federal Rules of Evidence that would limit the admissibility of evidence of an artist’s creative or artistic expression against that artist in court.”

RAP Act

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