> > 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

hum. d'you know of anywhere online where i could hear clips of any of those groups, Iss? I must say that Christian hip-hop isn't a style i've gotten into much, but it sounds good...

uni"more of a Smalltown Poets/Jars of Clay girl, m'self"peg