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Monday, February 12th, 2007Watching Ludacris perform on last night’s Grammy’s, I couldn’t help but feel for him and his millions of fans. He’s a wonderful talent, and the lyrics to Runaway Love, which he performed on the broadcast, are powerful, tragic, and could move all but the hardest of hearts to compassion. See for example, verse 1: Now [...]
Germanic Mullet Boy – Hip Hop Superstar
Friday, February 9th, 2007Leave it to the Christian music industry to rely on a blond hair, blue eyed white boy from Hudson, Ohio to make hip hop palatable. But so it was, back in the early 1990s, when my partner Matt Stevens was a signature member of Gospel hip hop pioneer DOC (Disciples of Christ). Throw a brother [...]
The Spirit of Hip Hop
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007What do CNN and MTV have in common (other than revolutionary cable pedigrees)? Both have reported on the “Spirit of Hip Hop,” a syndicated Gospel Hip Hop radio show based in Atlanta. + Finding My Religion: Hip Hop Gets the Spirit (MTV) “It’s a good thing that we’re trying to find morals and boundaries,” veteran [...]
72 hours a week
Sunday, December 10th, 2006A grueling, if lucrative, work week? Or the amount of time average Americans ages 13-18 spend consuming electronic media? “Teen life has become a theatrical, self-directed media production.” Additional findings: + 1/3 of teens own iPods, up from 1 percent in 2003 + More than half own Sony’s PlayStation 2 + 1/3 own an original [...]
DJ Kenny Mitchell introduces the Kargo EP
Thursday, October 12th, 2006“Spirit and Sound: the connection of the vertical and horizontal, where our world and God’s world become intertwined. Sonic vibrations translated into Spiritual Power. The ancient people of God knew of this connection. The horns were played before the battle, musicians were used to calm and bring healing, to fight evil spirits, to assist the [...]
Rock of Faith: Christian Bands Now a Crossover Miracle
Monday, September 18th, 2006Interesting article in Sunday’s NY Post: “Not long ago, a rock star acknowledging his Christianity was akin to a saint bathing in meat tenderizer before being tossed to the lions. … “Or, as pop-culture blog The Talent Show puts it: ‘Christian rock is stereotypically the kind of crap that offends music fans as well as [...]
Study: Raunchy Lyrics Prompt Teens To Have Sex
Monday, August 7th, 2006No surprises here: Teens who said they listened to lots of music with degrading sexual messages were almost twice as likely to start having intercourse or other sexual activities within the following two years as were teens who listened to little or no sexually degrading music. Among heavy listeners, 51 percent started having sex within [...]
My favorite things from 2005
Monday, December 26th, 2005This is just a sampling… TV Shows Law and Order Law and Order: SVU Law and Order: Criminal Intent VH1: Driven American Chopper Iron Chef America Almost anything else on Food Network Sports Center Yankee Games on YES MSNBC or Fox News or MTV/VH1 or History Channel or PBS Emerican Experience to kill time Books [...]
Bono’s Pentecostal roots
Friday, October 28th, 2005On the impact Pentecostalism had on him: There was also my friend Guggi. His parents were not just Protestant, they were some obscure cult of Protestant. In America, it would be Pentecostal. His father was like a creature from the Old Testament. He spoke constantly of the Scriptures and had the sense that the end [...]
Recently read
Monday, September 12th, 2005“The Revolution will not be Televised,” by Joe Trippi, campaign manager for the Dean for America campaign. While its politics are suspect, the book delivers on its promise to “show how power, in the hands of all of us, changes everything.” “This is the story of how Trippi’s revolutionary use of the Internet and an [...]
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