"Let It Be" may not have been the only Beatles song about Paul McCartney's late mom, who died from an embolism due to complications from breast cancer surgery when he was 14 years old. "Yesterday," ...

Songs have gotten more repetitive and angrier since the 1980s, according to a new study, furthering research that suggested songs have gotten shorter, simpler and more negative over the years due to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the business and law of music. Two men were convicted in federal court on Tuesday in Brooklyn of murdering Jason ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In his viral video “Who I Smoke,” Jacksonville rapper Spinabenz claims credit for no fewer than six murders. The crimes are real. But are his lyrics just violent fiction -- or an ...

A judge in Georgia says lyrics may be used as evidence in the YSL RICO case involving Young Thug. Per WSB-TV, the lyrics will be allowed to be admitted in an upcoming trial. First, as Fulton County ...

No one believes that country music legend Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. When Cash in 1968 released “Folsom Prison Blues,” a ballad about shooting and killing a man for no ...