{"id":2011,"date":"2011-05-02T12:14:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T12:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2011-05-02T12:14:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T12:14:02","slug":"reformed-rap-and-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2011","title":{"rendered":"Reformed Rap and Hip-Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nInteresting musical turn from the modern: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2011\/may\/spot-reformedrap.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Reformed Rap<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat drew my interest was this quote by Anthony Bradley:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Reformed hip-hop is a theologically driven masculinity movement. It says <strong>no<\/strong> to <strong>the prom songs<\/strong> to Jesus in CCM, no to <strong>whiny emo<\/strong> Christian music for hipsters, and no to <strong>empty, shallow, individualistic<\/strong> Christian music lacking theological content produced out of Nashville. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd then I thought of those orthodox churches (not the Eastern Orthodox), which gradually&nbsp; surrender their music to the very songs they've once called shallow...they would be no better than shallow, beginning it emotionally until it spread through the whole essence of a man.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThough hip-hop rap is very wordy than others, providing the advantage of content building, I am not too impressed when I browsed through an example of Curtis Allen's Heidelberg Catechism song, which is more repetition of the title than anything theological. How would one over come the aggressive masculinity obsession in a style whose essence comes from it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI would put it in the Entertainment-Education category, still, it is very distracting, especially when I try to be serious in focusing on the meaning of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r5vNtD6tdxA\" target=\"_blank\">Westminster's Catechism when it's sung by Curtis<\/a>. And the speed of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMNYOQ5Dwdo\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Gray's Who Can Pluck Us<\/a>, while I may try to keep up, is tempting me for unecessary aggression, I doubt it is possible to have a pious &quot;music&quot; in this way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, I'll give them credit for being calvinist...perhaps a tool I'll throw into the modern Christians who's so crazy about pop Christian songs to sink them to a point of turning around, though not for myself.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProm songs to Jesus...ha...that is certainly a fresh term for the CCM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting musical turn from the modern: The Reformed Rap. What drew my interest was this quote by Anthony Bradley: Reformed hip-hop is a theologically driven masculinity movement. It says no to the prom songs to Jesus in CCM, no to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2011\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}