hip-hop
Chelsea Wolfe says witchcraft and sobriety informed her latest album
By Krysta Fauria — February 7, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Witchcraft’s influence has meant an increased attentiveness to letting each record “be what it wants to be,” the singer, songwriter and musician says.
How some Muslim and non-Muslim rappers alike embrace Islam’s greeting of peace
By Jeta Luboteni and Margarita Guillory — August 25, 2023
(The Conversation) — In many parts of the world, hip-hop has become a way for Muslim artists to assert their belonging and identity.
In Kashmir, ‘conscious music’ tests India’s limits on speech
By Sheikh Saaliq and Aijaz Hussain — July 5, 2022
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A new musical tradition blends progressive Sufi rock with hip-hop in an assertive expression of political aspirations.
Thanksgiving turkey giveaway honors slain rapper Young Dolph
By Adrian Sainz — November 21, 2021
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Friends and associates of slain rapper Young Dolph handed out Thanksgiving turkeys at a neighborhood church Friday in Memphis, Tennessee, two days after he was gunned down in broad daylight inside his favorite bakery. Known for acts of charity in his hometown, the hip-hop artist and label owner had helped organize […]
DMX was my John the Forerunner
By T.C. Moore — April 14, 2021
(RNS) — DMX pointed me to Jesus not through a sermon or a Bible study, but through his bold faith that didn’t paper over his flaws.
Lecrae on growing uncomfortable with white evangelicalism and finding ‘Restoration’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 14, 2020
(RNS) — The Christian hip-hop artist’s new book examines the spiritual, personal and artistic dimensions of redemption.
Kanye, Flame and Augustine: Hip-hop and the conversion narrative
By A. Trevor Sutton — February 4, 2020
(RNS) — Hip-hop conversion stories such as Kanye's and Flame's have as much a place in the discourse about religious conversion narratives as does Augustine's 'Confessions.'
Hip-hop’s mourning for Nipsey Hussle shows beauty can be found in brokenness
By Chris Karnadi — May 20, 2019
(RNS) — Whenever the hip-hop community loses an artist, it loses a member of the family. The mourning binds people together as they reflect on the life and legacy of an artist taken too soon and reveals the foundation of hip-hop culture: beauty from brokenness.
‘Hip-Hop Haggadah’ celebrates Jewish roots with a beat
By Yonat Shimron — April 17, 2019
(RNS) — For Jewish educator Matt Bar, there’s no better way to involve kids in the Passover seder than through the rhythmic, rhyming recitation of rap.
Mainstream rap has grown more Christian. So why is Christian rap going mainstream?
By Jonathan Merritt — May 25, 2017
Christian rapper Propaganda's new album only mentions "God" in one song. He focuses on racism and injustice instead.
Jamila Woods’ new video is hair-raisingly ‘Holy’
By Kimberly Winston — May 3, 2017
(RNS) The Chicago-born singer, songwriter and poet turns some Bible verses into an affirmation for single women.
How Lecrae mixed rap and theology to find huge, mainstream success
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — September 26, 2014
(RNS) Rapper Lecrae’s popularity has been brewing for a few years now, but the churchgoing artist became the hottest Christian in the mainstream this month.
Can hip-hop help Humanism? Monica Miller on African American atheism and white privilege
By Chris Stedman — September 17, 2014
Dr. Monica Miller, Professor of Religion and Africana Studies and author of 'Religion and Hip Hop', tells RNS how looking to hip-hop and African American Humanism can improve discussions about race among atheists.
Why did Snoop Dogg change his name when he became a Rasta?
By Daniel Burke — August 2, 2012
(RNS) The hip-hop artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg has taken a new name that reflects his religious conversion. So, did Snoop have to change his name when he became a Rasta? By Daniel Burke.
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