Settling The Score Between The Sacred and Profane

My reconciling of the sacred and profane does not however limit religion in hip hop’s ability to matter in peoples’ everyday lives. Rappers have long gestured that hip hop culture is their religion – and that hip hop has, above all, saved their lives. While churches struggle to keep young people in the pews, this demographic too, overwhelmingly clings to hip hop, unapologetically.

MUSIC

hip hop, spotlight

September 19, 2012

Watoto From The Nile – Letter to Nicki Minaj (Official Music Video)

Watoto From The Nile is a group of young princesses from their hometown of Harriet Tubman City (Baltimore, Maryland). They have come to breath life back into a destructive music culture that's on life support. Through their musical talents, they silence the notion of our youth being lost and uncontrollable. Ranging from elementary to middle school, Mary Angel, Nia, Nya, and Kamaria are a young thought provoking, inspirational, socially and culturally conscious music group.

MUSIC

spotlight

September 12, 2012

Resurrection Power: Remembering Tupac Shakur

Tupac's appropriation of Jesus reminds us that our deaths—no matter what the cause—do not have to be in vain. As long as we find a way to impact the world before leaving it, our memories will keep coming back in forms we may least expect.

CULTURE, MUSIC

Ebony Utley, hip hop, Jesus, Rap and Religion, Resurrection power, spotlight

September 11, 2012

Social Movement Strategies and the Hip Hop Generation

Dr. Utley identifies the similarities between the civil rights generation and the hip hop generation.

CULTURE, MUSIC

Ebony Utley, hip hop, spotlight

August 15, 2012

‘No Church in the Wild’: The Youth’s Unrecognized Spirituality Between Beats and Rhymes

There may be "No Church in the Wild" for the younger demographic of the growing "Nones," but there is a new life philosophy emerging between the beats and rhymes of hip hop music that greatly influences their cultural reality, social understanding, political participation and unrecognized spirituality.

CULTURE, MUSIC

Jay-Z, kanye, spotlight

June 15, 2012

Verbal Kwest – Crazy Streets

First video from Verbal Kwest's album, Batman & Batman - available now on itunes! http://www.verbalkwest.com/ http://www.facebook.com/verbalkwest

MUSIC

music, spotlight

June 12, 2012

Cole Brown – Only God Can Judge Me

Cole Brown is the founding pastor of Emmaus Church, a growing multi-ethnic and multi-cultural church in Portland, OR where he lives with his wife and two children. He has worked in the Hip Hop industry and continues to write songs for congregational use.

MUSIC

breaking, Cole Brown

June 5, 2012

Dr. James Abbington speaks with Empowering Voices

Empowering Voices talks with Dr. James Abbington, Associate Professor of Church Music and Worship at the Emory University Candler School of Theology about African American sacred music in the 21st century Church and Public Square.

MUSIC

breaking, Empowering Voices, James Abbington, Joan Harrell

March 24, 2012

Trayvon – Jasiri X

Jasiri X tells the heartbreaking story of Trayvon Martin, a unarmed 17 yr old boy, who was shot and killed by Neighborhood Block Captain George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012. George Zimmerman has to this date never been arrested or charged for the Murder of Trayvon.

MUSIC

jasari x, spotlight, zimmerman

Settling The Score Between The Sacred and Profane

Watoto From The Nile – Letter to Nicki Minaj (Official Music Video)

KineticsLive.com Presents…Religion and Hip Hop: The New Terrain

Resurrection Power: Remembering Tupac Shakur

Social Movement Strategies and the Hip Hop Generation

‘No Church in the Wild’: The Youth’s Unrecognized Spirituality Between Beats and Rhymes

Verbal Kwest – Crazy Streets

Cole Brown – Only God Can Judge Me

Dr. James Abbington speaks with Empowering Voices

Trayvon – Jasiri X

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