This chapter explores court cases using hip-hop lyrics to prosecute Africana people and the development of police task forces to police the ontological bounds of hip-hop artists to suggest that, given hip-hop is an Africana cultural tradition, it has been rhetorically paired with criminality. The criminalization of hip-hop is situated within a broader historic pattern of rhetorically and ideologically linking working-class Black people with criminality. The remainder of this chapter builds on the scholars by exploring how a hip-hop justice epistemic is both a theoretical framework and a form of praxis. On November 6, 2017, the hip-hop community was left feeling hurt, angry, and hopeless as Meek Mill was sentenced to two to four years in state prison for parole violation. The Philadelphia star had been on parole for over a decade on drug and gun charges that he was arrested for at the age of 19 and convicted for two years later.