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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007“The turning point is hard to pinpoint. But after 30 years of growing popularity, rap music is now struggling with an alarming sales decline and growing criticism from within about the culture’s negative effect on society.” Article. See how lyrical content has evolved in rap (Explicit Lyrics): Old School P.E. — ‘Fight the Power’ New [...]
The Spirit of Hip Hop
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007What do CNN and MTV have in common (other than revolutionary cable pedigrees)? Both have reported on the “Spirit of Hip Hop,” a syndicated Gospel Hip Hop radio show based in Atlanta. + Finding My Religion: Hip Hop Gets the Spirit (MTV) “It’s a good thing that we’re trying to find morals and boundaries,” veteran [...]
Messengers of the Undeniable God
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006… a/k/a Motug or “Monsters of the Unda-Ground,” is a collective of 10 legendary graffiti artists and designers spearheaded by an original hipster, NYC LASE. I met LASE two weeks ago during Jesus Loves You New York. He’s an all-around urban renaissance man (musical composer & DJ, interior decorator, collectible toys & fashion designer, muralist [...]
Peep my homie’s book
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005My friend Phil Jackson of Tha House in Chicago co-wrote The Hip-hop Church: Connecting With the Movement Shaping Our Culture (InterVarsity Press) with Efrem Smith. I haven’t read it yet, but it’s on my list for 2006. Check it out. posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 12/28/2005 09:20:00 PM
The Meeting, Day 2
Saturday, November 12th, 2005Youth Explosion’s gazillion-voice choir rocked once again, especially a dance-infused rendition of “Holy.” The Man was even better the second time around! Live music — horns, percussion, tympani, acoustic, bass, and electric guitars, drums, middle eastern melodies, even classic hymns — takes hip hop to another dimension, and it’s amazing what three Alvin Ailey dancers [...]
Last night at The Meeting
Saturday, November 12th, 2005Tony Evans preached Acts 13:36: “For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his fathers and his body decayed.” He emphasized three aspects: 1. “David served God’s purpose” — His was not a plotless life. (Why was Seinfeld so successful? People with plotless lives like [...]
Phil, get the word out
Sunday, August 21st, 2005My friend Phil Jackson was featured on PBS on Religion & Ethics Weekly last February, but were it not for Rudy’s belated discovery this weekend, I would not have known. His ministry The House is a church within a church, an outreach of Lawndale Community Church in Chicago, that utilizes hip hop to reach unchurched [...]
Another reason why too many refuse to take hip hop seriously
Monday, July 25th, 2005Two hip-hop magazine executives were charged with attempted murder yesterday after a booze-fueled argument over rap music erupted in gunfire that left three men wounded at a Manhattan bar, cops said. … “It was over whether they were going to play a rap CD or not,” an investigator said.Come on, guys. Gunplay, generally, is stupid. [...]
If there’s room at Hip-Hop’s table …
Thursday, May 12th, 2005for violinists and reggae can embrace a Hasidic Jew, why do some evangelicals still resent Gospel Hip-Hop?
Hip Hop prophets
Thursday, May 12th, 2005From Jesus and the Hip Hop Prophets, by John Teter and Alex Gee (IVP, 2003): “The biographies of Jesus … include a story about three astrologers…. They were the first ones to figure out what God was up to, beacuse God wanted them on the inside. God could have communicated with them any way…. But [...]
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