> This is about Iss' post right below mine.
> Most of you guys know that I favor rap over all of
> those other genres, but that doesn't mean that I
> don't think there are better ones out there.
>
> .....there is a lot of rap worth
> listening to, like those old school artists, my
> favorite being MC Hammer, Mixalot, and Run DMC.
> These artists actually make good music, like great
> freestyling and lyrics set to good beats. I like
> the modern ones, like Snoop, especially his first
> album (He's gone down the toilet ever since) and
> most west coast, and I also really like Notorious
> B.I.G. because his rhyming is so unpredictable,
> and it's amazing to think how he thought it up.
> And for plain flows I put in a little Redman
> and Method Man, AKA Johnny Blaze, AKA the
> Ticallion Stallion AKA the Iron Lung...
>
> Finchplucker
>

I was happy when Christian hip-hop finally started to come of age, and we started to see serious lyrical talent from groups like Future Shock, LPG, SoulJourn, Peace 586, Grits, and others.
Consider strikingly literate flows like:

The Sun laughed at ridiculous Icarus and his
Meticulous plans to land his
Manmade plane in the heavenly planes
This poor fella lacks more than just propellers
Feathers and sticks mixed with wax
Would begin his gravitational fall
This sums up all
Manmade attempts to reach the
Son-up to sundown
Don't let ill philosophies be your meltdown.

Or plain old complex flows like:

Polysyllabic linguistics
Playing havoc with the twisted logistics
Of false doctrine, listen what the D be droppin'
Poppin' another Christomatic lyrical cap
Piercing through tha pseudo-spiritual crap
Infecting rap, til it's about knowledge of self
Collecting wealth and emcee powerplays
Nowadays they dissin' Christians like we used to do commies
Hostile to the Gospel like gays in the Army
Consult your swami, your astrological calendar
But never listen to that Word that'll challenge ya
Like a scavenger, you gather and consume
Dead matter from the tomb
But I'd rather bloom with the Boom-bap
Skillz are the fulcrum in rap
To turn it back on its axis, the facts is ......

No one in Christian rap, of course, is up to the stature of lyrical greats like Rakim, but at least there's plenty of material now that really impresses me.

Iss "Place this in your rememberance / Ponder upon the yonder tense and its developments" achar