Music Popularity Charts
What is the Christian response to the evils of Hip Hop/Gangsta Rap?
Something historic happened in October 2003. As Joan Anderman reported in the Rochester Post-Bulletin, “For the first time in the 50-year history of the Billboard charts, all Top 10 songs in the country last week were by black artists—signaling the culmination of hip-hop’s ascent as the dominant force in popular music and culture.”
Rap music is everywhere and the postmodern generation that has been weaned on hip-hop will not let us ignore it. Young people of all races, ethnicities and social-economic levels listen to hip-hop, whether they are urban, rural or living in the suburbs. Private school students, public school students and home schoolers listen to it. God’s people—those who confess with confidence that God is sovereign—have at least two responses. Either we can condemn this hip-hop culture and in effect “throw the baby out with the bath water,” or we can creatively seek ways to use rap music’s popularity to advance the kingdom.
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