Gospel meets hip-hop

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Some of the biggest rappers in the world like Kanye West, Chance the Rapper and Stormzy are combining gospel and hip-hop in their music. It is bringing attention to ‘gospel hip-hop’. Gospel and hip-hop are closely related, but the relationship hasn’t always been an easy one. UK rapper Guvna B has been making faith-based hip-hop for the past 10 years and wants to find out what’s behind this shift. He travels to the USA to meet gospel legends Donald Lawrence and Kierra Sheard, Lecrae and Andy Mineo, Muyiwa Olarewuju and soul singer Samm Henshaw, whose single Church topped the UK charts.

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0:00.0	What can wash away my skin?
0:03.0	Nothing but the blood of Jesus?
0:06.0	One can make me hold again.
0:09.0	I'm a rap and gram artist based in the UK
0:11.0	and they've been making faith-based music or positive hip-up for the past 10 years.
0:15.6	In this documentary I want to explore how Gospel hip-up has developed both in the US and the UK.
0:22.1	I want to find out whether the trend of mainstream artists using
0:25.1	gospel is influencing or even changing the direction of the genre. Will it become
0:30.1	more accepted by the mainstream and what about the church? Will it fully embrace
0:34.4	Gospel hip-hop? One of the biggest Christian hip-hop artists in the world
0:41.8	is Lacreae. He's had success both in the church and the mainstream.
0:46.0	His first album Real Talk was actually the first album I ever owned and it had a massive impact on inspiring me to make music.
0:53.4	He created the label Reach Records and their mantras from the Bible.
0:57.6	Romans chapter 1 verse 16 to not be ashamed of sharing the Gospel message of Jesus.
1:04.0	Man, I consider my life nothing.
1:06.0	If I could just finish the race and complete the job the Lord Jesus gave me.
1:11.0	I live to tell the world his message. Romans 116 I'm not a shame. I ain't a
1:16.2	shame.
1:17.2	We sold out. Sick in God's face till we fold out. We want it. We got it. We ain't trying to
1:22.0	hold down
1:23.0	break me shake me mow me I rather die like Christ
1:27.0	to live unholy.
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