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Joseph Scibbe

Joseph Scibbe

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I have recently become a big fan of Christian Rap music from artists like LeCrae, Flame, and Trip Lee. They have the ability to "rap" some very good doctrine and I really enjoy listening to them. I live in southern Alabama and was wondering just how widespread this music is and if you have heard it what you think about it. Has anyone here heard of these guys.
 
I've never heard of those artists, but like I said in another thread, I'm not "up" on the Christian music scene. While there are some exceptions, I'm not a huge fan of rap. Rap and Country are towards the bottom of my genre faves. Every now and then I'll come across some rap that I enjoy, but if I were to hear a rap song on the radio that started going on and on about Jesus, I'd probably turn the station. Not sure what that says about me.
 
There are a few of us who like the Christian rappers. I especially like Lecrae. I'll try to find some of the other threads.
 
I like some of the more laid back rap. I like Toby Mac b/c my family knows him, and I like Shai Linne. His Greatest Story Ever Told is a great 5 minute biblical theology.
 
I used to be heavily into secular rap, and shai linne is by far the most talented rapper I have ever heard - secular or Christian.

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I have actually met Cam (on Lecrae and Sho Baraka's albums), and he is a wonderful person to spend time around, and truly loves the Lord. In every break we had from what we were doing, he asked me "So, you wanna go have some Bible study."
 
I appreciate what some of the Christians who rap are doing, but I just can't stand the genre. It irritates the stew right out of me if I hear it for more than a few minutes.
 
LawrenceU said:
I appreciate what some of the Christians who rap are doing, but I just can't stand the genre. It irritates the stew right out of me if I hear it for more than a few minutes.
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Thank you for your post, Lawrence U. For me it's seconds! :rant:
 
Knoxienne said:
LawrenceU said:
I appreciate what some of the Christians who rap are doing, but I just can't stand the genre. It irritates the stew right out of me if I hear it for more than a few minutes.
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Thank you for your post, Lawrence U. For me it's seconds! :rant:
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That's what I always said . . . until I heard Shai Linne's song on the Gospel of Romans. I've thought about buying this song and putting it on a CD by itself so I could memorize a succinct form of the gospel.

[video=youtube;K2r4ujFeuqk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2r4ujFeuqk[/video]
 
The things about shai linne that impresses me are his rhyme schemes - he does creative things that most rappers never even think of or try.

For instance:

"It puts me in a true rage (A), how she pumps the new age (A), on Television (B), like five days a week (C) / Yet, only a few gage (A), that that won't get you saved (A), from hell so listen (B), 'cause my God came to speak (C)"

When it flies by in the song, sometimes it's hard to pick up on that stuff.

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"Back in the days, trapped in my ways, saturated with dark, till Christ activated his spark and captivated my heart!"

[video=youtube;QFngtmn3TYA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFngtmn3TYA[/video]

"Most preachin' today producing stony ground hearers / that's why the world looks at the church and only found mirrors..."
 
TaylorOtwell said:
The things about shai linne that impresses me are his rhyme schemes - he does creative things that most rappers never even think of or try.
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Have you listened to Eminem??? I'm not condoning all of his music, but his rhyming schemes are unreal. I don't know who this Shai Linne person is, but I'm inclined to think that his style is nothing new.
 
Tripel said:
TaylorOtwell said:
The things about shai linne that impresses me are his rhyme schemes - he does creative things that most rappers never even think of or try.
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Have you listened to Eminem??? I'm not condoning all of his music, but his rhyming schemes are unreal. I don't know who this Shai Linne person is, but I'm inclined to think that his style is nothing new.
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Yes, I have heard Eminem extensively, and I think shai linne could achieve, if not excel, the same level of complexity.
 
I don't really like rap music, but I think Christian rap, especially when it's catchy and good, is just so funny. I like it, I guess.

I listen mostly to metal, though. Underoath (older stuff, pre-Spencer Chamberlain) is my favorite.
 
Yes, this 38-year-old, head-covering, white, housewife from Connecticut LOVES reformed rap! I have a great sound system in my station wagon, and love to open the sun roof while noddin to Lecrae, Flame, Shai Linne and 116 Clique. I need to get some Tripp Lee and Cross Movement..oh, and Steven the Levite. Until I hear these guys rap, I never liked the genre.
 
steven-nemes said:
I don't really like rap music, but I think Christian rap, especially when it's catchy and good, is just so funny. I like it, I guess.

I listen mostly to metal, though. Underoath (older stuff, pre-Spencer Chamberlain) is my favorite.
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"Funny"?

And yes, Dallas-era Underoath is pretty good. But this thread isn't about metal.
 
steven-nemes said:
I don't really like rap music, but I think Christian rap, especially when it's catchy and good, is just so funny. I like it, I guess.

I listen mostly to metal, though. Underoath (older stuff, pre-Spencer Chamberlain) is my favorite.
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This is the main thing that scares me about Christian rap. Back when I was going through the whole youth group culture, the motto was "the way it's presented doesn't matter, as long as the message is right!"... I think I'm starting to see more and more how completely ridiculous of a statement that is. In the past, I loved rap, however, I sometimes (often) wonder if the medium fits the message.
 
TaylorOtwell said:
This is the main thing that scares me about Christian rap. Back when I was going through the whole youth group culture, the motto was "the way it's presented doesn't matter, as long as the message is right!"... I think I'm starting to see more and more how completely ridiculous of a statement that is. In the past, I loved rap, however, I sometimes (often) wonder if the medium fits the message.
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I have had the opposite experience. I grew up with "the only thing that matters is how it is presented." No drums, no up-to-date tunes or lyrics, nothing that "smacks of the world."

As I've grown, I've learned that it is no more fair for me to insist that classical music (or light pop) is the only medium that Christians can use than it would be for rappers to say that rap is the only medium a Christian can use. Both are musical styles from different subcultures, but that doesn't make one good and one bad.
 
I've been a fan of Christian rap for a couple of years now. The thing I most appreciate about it is it's similarity, (no joke) to hymondy and psalmody. Both of which are very content-rich, just like rap.
 
I love Shai Linne, Lecrae, Trip Lee, etc. Hip-hop is a culture, and these guys are doing missions work and ministry in this culture that very few others have done. Praise God, and may the Lord bless these men.
 
I'm not big into Rap. What little of it I actually have some interest in is all old school stuff like Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five.

Hey, Roldan, you need to chime in here. ;)
 
Hey, any of you guys listen to Timothy Brindle? I just found out about him because he is a guest on (at least) one of Shai Linne's CDs. Listening to more of his stuff, it sounds great...

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Dude and he's gringo!
 
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