When rapper Young Thug goes to trial later this month on gang and racketeering charges ... But, Weinstein asserted, because of the nature of rap music, with its violence and extreme language ...

ATLANTA — Day after day, the young men came before a judge, handcuffed, clad in county jumpsuits and answering to their government names rather than their rap ... street gang and a music label ...

On Thursday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, 20-year-old J'oni Travis, whose rap name ... a "diss song" that disrespected the West End and infuriated members of the rival gang.