Thanks for stopping by.

Thanks for stopping by.

With that being said I would suggest people check out artists such as Trip Lee, The Ambassidor, and Braille.

Appreciate your comment.

I'd beg for deeper searching and analysis into such a subject (as well as an honest heart-searching concerning the possibility of prejudice agaisnt such a group of people who look, dress, talk, and move different), because the same weak arguments could be pushed to denounce any form of artistic expression, as far as the 'roots, origins' are concerned such conclusions are the cause to overreactions to any instruments, or to 'pagan' holidays not to mention recreation (like cards) and sports.

The scope of Christian rap (due to the genre) covers more than any other style because it's so varied (though that's completely ignored-some strictly band instruments, some jazzy, some more digitalized, etc..). One album entirely centered on the atonement, another by various artists each song summarizing the pauline letters, another defending against the da vinci code, another on OWen's killing sin, another on deliverance from masturbation, another from defending sola scriptura, another covering exegesis vs Eisegesis and the fruitful list goes on.
Yes there is much filth in secular Hip-Hop, as anything of man is tainted, twisted and abused: yet this is precisely why these artists (CHRISTIAN/REFORMED) are attacking these errors, the materialism, the sexuality, the immodesty, the violence, the pride, the rebellion, not to mention pointing out the errors of American christianity. In short Doctrine? CHECK, Life? CHECK, Fruit? CHECK. Give me any subject, even that which i love and I could critiqueit , give me homeschooling and I can point out the hypocrisy, the pride, the legalism, the elitism and yet I would denounce such as extremes while maintining that such a stigma against homeschoolers in general is unwarranted.

I maintain that this is cultural, that this is a matter of style and taste, no different then the other silly battles over style of music. Not comparable to 'opinions' over matters of biblical doctrine. Like all music and art these are a people who are expressing their beliefs and lifestyles through such and because of that, because of the environments surrounding such artists given their depraved minds they expressed wickedness (like all artists) and sure it can be LOT more aggressive because the volume of the wickedness in such places is louder (more easily seen) but for those that have been redeemed by the grace of God they also have expressed themselves (beliefs and lifestyles) through the same tools and so we have Christian rap, praise God for these living epistles!!!
grace and peace

john 3:8 “The wind blows where it wills; and though you hear its sound, yet you neither know where it come from nor where its going: so is everyone that is born of the Spirit”.

The music we sing is based on a totally different tonality from that of the ancient Mediterranean world, and it uses very different instruments. (The piano was not invented until the modern era, and the organ was originally a Roman circus instrument, considered unfit for Christian worship.) Our music would have sounded strange and unpleasant to them, and vice versa. (It should be noted that all Christian music, at some point, has been “contemporary Christian music,” and that even the most traditional songs today were probably regarded as risqué by somebody when they first came out!)[emphasis mine]

Source: Putting Contextualization in its Place

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Someone on the internet is wrong.

http://centuri0n.blogspot.com/2009/10/rap-and-b…

Another interesting post is James White's from when he met up with “LeCrae, Tedashi and the rest of the guys.” Dr. White met up with them when they were, as he said, “ministering” in Phoenix.

Interesting discussion.

Why is hip hop always singled out?

Interesting question. There are times when it really does seem this way. I wonder if hip-hop is singled out more than other mediums whether they be musical or otherwise.

Thanks, Tyler.

William “The Ambassador” Branch wrote his master's thesis on the subject. In turn, that was the theme of his album “The Thesis”.

I have not had a chance to read through them all the way yet, but it is worth thinking through and considering what is said.

I have not had a chance to read through them all the way yet, but it is worth thinking through and considering what is said.