Summary
In an article on msnbc.com , it talks about a young entrepuneur who believes in gospel hip hop so much, that he sold his house to start his own gospel hip hop record label. In addition to the record label, he is also making a movie, and a tv show dedicated to promoting gospel hip hop. Gos pel hip hop has not got it's fair share of air time, because secular and christian radio stations alike, are afraid of offending people. The young entrepuneur Tervarius Black, age thirty four, believes that gospel hip hop's positive lyrics would really appeal to listeners of secular hip hop. The name of the record label is Xist. He has also started a gospel cruise which would allow for fans to mingle with gospel hip hop artists. Tervarius said 'We christians, but we like to party'.
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I love gospel hip hop! Gospel gangstas, Toby Mack, T Bone, KJ-52 are just a few of the many great gospel hip hop artists. I am glad to see that someone is taking the initiative to try and promote holy hip hop. Most gospel hip hop songs don't get played on the radio. Aside from purchasing the cd's or listening online, gospel hip hop is almost non-exsistent over radio air waves. My son likes rap, and I have given him several christian rap cd's and he loves them. Secular hip hop tends to have very negative lyrics. They try to glamorize robbing, stealing, and killing. Gospel hip hop maintains the hip hop beat but delivers more positive lyrics. I really like that this article states that Xist puts being true to the gospel message first in their hip hop.
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This is a great story. It's great that holy hip hop is setting possitive lyrics. I think this kind of music would be good for our kids because they can listen to their fast paced music, but not be singing about what you said, robbing, stealing and killing.
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