Two-time Grammy Award-winning artist Lecrae’s first book, Unashamed, will be published on May 3, and the memoir’s conclusion could challenge the worldview of readers.
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Over the past year, 25-year-old recording artist NF has drawn a fanatical following with emotional music — none more vulnerable than a new song written to his mother, who died from a drug overdose in 2009.
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Reach Records emcee Lecrae is slowly unveiling his upcoming book “Unashamed,” by releasing chapter excerpts on Medium. His latest post, “Red Carpet Treatment,” chronicles his experience as a “known,” or in some sense, unknown, artist infiltrating the elite members of mainstream music at the Grammy Awards. However, the biggest takeaway from this passage is despite his star status and large stature, he felt small and “different” among his peers.
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Back in November Reach Records came under fire for removing the original “116” statement from their website’s bio and replacing it with one that was deemed “more safe.” However, in a recent interview with HHDX, the label’s co-founder Lecrae, addressed the mission statement for the first time.
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In early March, there was a “Christians in the Arts” event at Columbia University where a handful of artists gathered on a panel to answer some tough topics about Christianity. Among the panelists was rapper Andy Mineo. He spoke about the trouble finding a balance between making art for Christians and non-Christians, which led to some thoughts about Kendrick Lamar’s faith.
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Just one female rapper is signed to a notable Christian hip-hop record label — Jackie Hill Perry of Humble Beast. This deficiency of female prominence sparked the final question from the crowd at SXSW 2016’s “Understanding the Business of Christian Hip-Hop” panel this March.
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Earlier this month there was a “Christians in the Arts” event at Columbia University, and emcee Andy Mineo was part of the panel that addressed the students. It was here that Mineo offered some more insight to his “Christian rap is corny” quote that stirred up controversy last year.
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The hottest topic in the news is, "Who will be the next President of the United States?" It seems everyday the latest headline about Donald Trump, Hilary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders takes the media precedent above everything else. The battle of Republican candidate versus Democrat candidate has reared its ugly head again after four years, and social media has become the biggest casualty.
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Willie Will, a pastor fired for infidelity in 2013 by Mark Driscoll’s former multi-site megachurch Mars Hill, released a 50-track Christian rap album today titled The GIFT.
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Yesterday multiple news outlets reported on Stephen Curry’s signing to Under Armour breaking the paradigm of the sneaker business model. While this is inherently true, it has also afforded Curry the unique ability to be a Godly witness to a huge audience.
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The legendary hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest lost one of their own today, with the passing of Phife Dawg at just 45-years-old. With the hip-hop world grieving the loss of an influential emcee, even the Christian Hip-Hop spoke up about the impact of Phife and paid their respects.
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Almost every day, Ki’Shon Furlow thinks about moving back to his hometown, where just last month thieves broke into his family's house and gang members shot someone down the street.
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Alright, it’s truth time! There is a Facebook trend going around asking people to share their top 10 impactful on your life records of all-time. Well, we are flipping the script and asking you, readers, to think about the Christian Hip-Hop records that touched you in some way.
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Cincinnati Red’s pitcher Michael Lorenzen shared his powerful testimony on the Renewed Strength Fitness channel. Lorenzen is a devout Christian, and a big time lover of Christian hip-hop. He even proudly reps a 116 tattoo on his non-pitching arm.
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Rock and hip-hop have been collaborating for years, and that is no different with Christian music. The late 90s and early 2000s was dominated by bands in the genre of Nu-Metal/Rap-Rock/Metalcore. Christian music fans proved that they wanted some of that action as well.
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Today is the long-awaited release date of Kanye West’s new album The Life of Pablo. Mr. West has been touting the record as being a gospel album with “a lot of cursing.” The name of the album has gone from So Help Me God, to Swish to Waves and finally to The Life of Pablo.
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Swoope and Collision Records told Rapzilla on Friday that they had agreed to separate (on very good terms). The departure has made him one of the most valuable, unsigned artists in Christian hip hop.
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Christian Hip Hop's Best of awards are back again! If we would’ve told you that Reach, Humble Beast and Lamp Mode would only release a combined six albums in 2015, you probably would’ve thought it’d be a slow year for Christian hip hop.
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The vast majority of the responses to “Off the Leash,” the lead single of Datin’s upcoming album, The Roar, were positive. But a few of negative responses took aim not at his delivery, but instead the heart behind the delivery.
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Rapper Corey Paul hasn’t gone out of his way to tell listeners about his day job, but when fellow Collision Records artist Alex Faith learned that Paul was a firefighter, Faith wasn’t surprised. Neither was Houston juvenile probation supervisor Dan Hicks, who runs a Christian-based mentorship program where Paul regularly volunteers.
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In the early days of Christian hip hop, it was hard for any church to fully accept the biblical validity of such new and “pagan” sounding music. In many cases, it was just too much for traditionalists to swallow.
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Many of the Rapzilla readers enjoyed our previous article titled “5 Moments Christian Hip-Hop Would Like to Pretend Never Happened” and after receiving an overwhelming amount of submissions for choices that were worse, we decided to give you all five more.
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Jailed in December for allegedly assaulting a SeaWorld haunted house employee, PyRexx is back. The Houston-based Christian rapper's case has been dismissed after he spent 30 days behind bars.
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Somewhere in the small town of Brandon, Mississippi, an 18-year-old freshman at a local community college is making beats with the aid of cheap desktop speakers, Beats headphones and a basic keyboard.
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Andy Mineo, KB, Bizzle, Swoope, Canon, Eshon Burgundy and S.O. are some of the most important artists in Christian hip hop, and they all were members of Rapzilla’s inaugural Freshman class in 2011.
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