There are more reasons than not to call Jesus a rapper. By the definitions of his day: a gangster rapper. Check the Bible, it’s all in there—a young ruffian delivering verses on street corners amongst ...

As the Christian music industry has grown -- the sector sold some 44 million copies last year -- the vehicles that contemporary Christian and gospel artists use to convey their message have evolved ...

With cheap recording technology and social media often replacing traditional record labels, it's actually harder than ever to get shine as a rapper these days. One Florida MC named Mikhaul Rhodd ...

As Christian artists embrace a wider variety of sounds and market songs savvily on social media, they are rapidly widening ...

A new contemporary hip-hop radio station launches in the Twin Cities today. At 3 p.m., the 95.3 FM frequency (KNOF) switches from a Christian format under the name PraiseFM to Go 95.3 and follow the ...

Radio host and Christian hip-hop recording artist Big Redd has launched the syndicated radio program The Big Redd Radio Show. The weekly one-hour show includes Christian hip-hop, Christian pop, and ...

In 2013, an absurd video of a white man, purportedly an Iowa pastor, performing something he called “Rappin’ for Jesus” went viral on YouTube. “My crew is big and it keeps getting bigger, that’s cause ...

The Twin Cities' most prominent hip-hop radio station and its sister pop-rock outlet will soon go off the air — casualties of a decision by the Pohlad family to abandon the radio business. Go 95.3 and ...

While the music & programming are clearly faith-based, BOOST welcomes listeners from all walks of life. You don’t have to be a Christian to appreciate Hip Hop that builds up the community and culture.

Sterling Bland ’23, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a joint concentrator in Sociology and African and African American Studies in Quincy House. When I was fourteen years old, I found an older cousin’s ...

The Son of Man will send his angels ... with a breakbeat. (Photo by KMazur/WireImage for The Recording Academy via Getty Images If Christ then was Biggie (apologies to 2Pac), the twelve apostles — ...