I believe music is the soundtrack of our lives and the rhythm of our soul, so what you listen to is the peep hole into whats in your heart. When Hip Hop was created it was used as a form of self expression and I have a theory behind the history. African American back in the 70's did not have a lot but we knew how to take what we had and create opportunity. So without instruments we configured a sound with just our voices called beatboxing, and put a rhythm to our words which complimented the beat. Through rhythmic story telling, rappers encouraged and educated their audience which was the beginning of Hip Hop.
Over time those encouraging messages became self righteous, shallow, insecure lyrics of false hope. The reason I use the phrase 'false hope' is because the general messages which are transferred through hip hop glorify materialism, immorality, disrespect, and inhumanity. Now don't get me wrong every rap song out does not fall under that umbrella however majority of mainstream hip hop music does.
As time progresses the quality of the message is rapidly declining and unfortunately increasingly capturing the attention of the younger generation. However now a younger generation of followers of Christ are attempting to take the hip hop sound and deliver messages of our Savior JESUS CHRIST saving grace, labeling it Holy Hip Hop.
Many mature believers in Christ do not agree with using hip hop as a vehicle to declare the word of God because hip hop is claimed to be 'worldly' and 'the devil's music.' They believe its sacreligous to mix things of this world with Jesus Christ because it can be viewed as we are conforming to the things of this world and compromising the Gospel.
My question tonight is, is it the label Holy Hip Hop which is conflicting, or is it the message over a hip hop beat which stirs confusion?
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