Tag: holy hip-hop

I’m no hip-hop expert. I’m just a white boy who grew up in small town Oklahoma. But I’d like to think I know good music when I hear it. I grew up on a steady diet of rock and roll, and got into metal and punk in my teenage years. It would be a little while longer before I began to dabble in rap music. While Christian rap did exist in the 1980s, most of it was pretty cheesy, and relatively sub-par to what was going on in the secular world.*… Continued →

The most legendary holy hip-hop cipher of them all? Perhaps. Tunnel Rats’ debut Experience (1996) was truly mind-blowing. It’s one of those rare albums where the line between art and artist was completely blurred, if it even existed in the first place. The lyrics (as well as the passion behind them) reflected absolute love of hip-hop music and culture, and absolute love of God and his Gospel. Very few artists, very few albums or artistic endeavors reach that climax of full integration where neither the message nor the artistic medium was compromised in any way whatsoever.… Continued →

There is simply not enough hip-hop on this site. Let’s fix that! I grew up in a small, very monochromatic town in Oklahoma, where most of the people had my skin color. In that part of the world, there were two kinds of music–country and heavy metal. In the 80s, a few of my friends who were more hip had started getting into this new “rap music” that I knew very little about. But growing up in a country-western family and then discovering rock on my own, I wasn’t really predisposed to listen to rap.… Continued →