You need to pay attention to hip-hop if you’re religious. Here’s why. Ep. 29

Jesuitical

America Media

News, News Commentary, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Rap got religious last year. At least that’s what Zac wrote earlier this year for America. The truth is, while it may have gotten more explicit about religion in 2016, hip-hop has always had a deep religious undercurrent to its bars and beats. This week we’re chatting with Alex Nava, the author of In Search of Soul: Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion. We talk to Alex about religion’s influence on hip-hop and why people are surprised to find out about it. If you need any convincing before or after listening to us—go listen to Kendrick Lamar’s “How Much a Dollar Cost.” In Signs of the Times, we talk Pope Francis in Colombia, rapping nuns, beer-brewing monks and proposing in front of Pope Francis. Links from the show: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is what's commonly known as a big inside voice.
0:02.0	Just introduce us again.
0:05.0	It just felt like we were like, yeah.
0:07.0	Yeah.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to Judge Whiticle,
0:10.0	a new podcast from the cheerfully young wildly hip and gracefully lay editors of America
0:15.5	media.
0:16.5	That lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with them.
0:19.8	Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith, culture, and the news often over drinks.
0:25.4	I'm Ashley McKinless joined by Zach Davis.
0:30.4	Hello everyone.
0:31.6	And Olga Segura.
0:32.4	So subdued, Zach.
0:33.7	I know.
0:34.3	It's really unlike you.
0:35.1	Did you just get in trouble for screaming into the microphone?
0:37.8	Yes.
0:38.3	How you guys doing?
0:39.4	Pretty good.
0:40.5	It's a short work week.
0:41.9	I didn't get you guys sick or anything. You got me sick.
0:43.0	Yes, Ashley, I've been coughing all day today.
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