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Monday, March 28th, 2005From the annals of “There goes the neighborhood” — Big, bad Fitty (a/k/a 50 Cent) moved into a luxe suburban town and what did he do to endear himself to the neighbors? He threw an all-access, no holds barred party (“like it’s your birthday”) and invited just enough locals to generate some goodwill. Although the [...]
Something’s Happenin’ Here
Wednesday, March 16th, 2005Vibe Magazine on our friends at Youth Explosion: “Rap meets religion at the Christ Tabernacle in Queens, where they bring the ruckus as much as they repent.” Check out the six page photo spread here. What was that I heard about every knee bowing, and every tongue confessing?
Akon’s achin’ ghetto
Monday, March 7th, 2005If you ever wondered why God loves inner city kids, check out the (cheesey pun alert!) aching song Ghetto by hip hop/R&B singer Akon. An immigrant to NJ from Senegal, he was ensnared by the streets until a jail stint forced him to concentrate on his music. A lyrical sample follows: These streets remind me [...]
2 Cents for 50
Tuesday, March 1st, 2005Trouble seems to follow hip hop bad boy flava of the month 50 Cents wherever he goes. The latest: someone got shot last night during a melee between 50′s entourage and Game loyalists in the lobby of Hot 97 while “Fitty” was on air in the studio. My 2 cents for 50: Get some new [...]
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
What do The Game, hip hop’s latest sensation, and Martha Stewart, America’s incarcerated domestic diva, have in common? Bankability. Based on a comeback. The Game’s debut album, the “most anticipated album of the year,” hit stores at number one on the charts. MTV attributes his success to “the unconditional street love he’s been given by [...]
Will the Real Men Please Stand Up?
Monday, January 17th, 2005My last shout-out of the evening in honor of MLK comes from the son of a civil rights radical, who ironically suffered a similar fate as Dr. King (although for apparently different reasons). The late Tupac Shakur, son of Afeni Shakur of the Black Panther Party, grew up never knowing his father. According to his [...]
The Boden Center
Monday, January 10th, 2005The Bronx got a little touch of heaven his weekend. The Boden Center for Performing Arts officially launched in Castle Hill with a concert Friday evening (1/7) featuring jazzy reinterpretations of age-old standards, musical theater by a youth drama troupe called BAMSS (By Any Means Save Some), and modern dance performed by members of the [...]
Even the NY Times Gets It
Monday, January 3rd, 2005Some of evangelical Christianity’s most respected leaders still don’t believe Hip Hop can be a viable expression of worship or a legitimate means of outreach. They are not paying attention. The effectiveness of anointed Hip Hop to change lives has been duly noted by, among others, the New York Times (yes, that Times), which visited [...]
Jesus Walks with Me
Friday, December 31st, 2004I’ve been wrestling with the unexplainable lately. Throughout this week, the tsunami. Yesterday, Adam Jeremiah. For nearly two years, ministry difficulties, personal struggles, even health challenges. In countless bizarre, almost surreal ways, it feels (deep down, where life hurts) like a flame upon my flesh has been turned seven time hotter. Against that backdrop, I [...]
Evangelism 101, Hip Hop Style
Friday, December 31st, 2004I helped a friend move yesterday, along with a crew of seven teenage boys. They’re all great kids from God-fearing, evangelical families. They’re all actively involved in a local church youth group, and most, if not all, attended Christian elementary and middle schools. One of the boys’ parents are pastors of a leading church in [...]
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