Liberty Counsel Does Rap Videos

Aren’t they a few years late in jumping on the hip hop/rap bandwagon? If they really want to appear “with it”, they need to be doing acid jazz and dubstep.

A guy named Stephen Wiley supposedly released the first Christian rap album in 1986, Bible Break.

@Akira MacKenzie

Agreed. It’s the same with their attempts to co-opt science for whatever end they want to claim as true, until science indisputably disagrees with them, then it’s “well, science can’t answer everything” or “it’s in the Bible, I believe it, that settles it.” Science is good until it’s not good.

Janet Parshall on Moody Bible Radio has a program called In The Market, in which she claims to have “robust conversations” in the “marketplace of ideas”, but it’s really just mimicry of something you’d hear on NPR. Her topics are presented with a narrow “biblical perspective” (now that’s robust), which is kind of funny because they really have to do some mental juggling to, for example, show how the Bible has an economic theory that the government shouldn’t help poor people.

@Brett McCoy

If they really wanted to be with it, they’d be ripping off complextro.

@Akira MacKenzie

Yup. That is a standard MO for those who stand on grounds made of mists and longings.

In a way, a perfectly human way, I pity them.

At the same time, I don’t like them very much at all. That is, I really, really don’t like them. In the same way that I don’t like bee stings. They don’t hurt me but, damn, they are an unwelcome interruption.

And besides, “rap” is not music. It is noise.

And besides, “rap” is not music. It is noise.

Let’s just ignore the thirty years of history in the genre, and its influences ranging from funk to jazz to heavy metal. Yep, that’ll show our musical knowledge. If you’re arguing that the sort of hip-pop that’s distributed on Top 40 radio stations is noise, sure, fine. But don’t dismiss the fun genres like g-funk (which takes all of the music – the beats, the melodies, the song structure – straight from 70s funk, especially George Clinton, meaning the only real difference is the vocal delivery) or intelligent progressive rap (which definitely exists – refer to any less-popular Lupe Fiasco song or album – he wrote a goddamn feminist rap song).

Crudely Wrott “But it would be better if they hired real drummers.”

You know that ex-Public Enemy goof with the multiple, crappy, reality shows? Here he is on drums. And that’s not all. He’s a virtuoso.

So get off our step, pops!

Humble Tip? Just the tip?

RIp – Digable Planets had at least one feminist song on their first release in 1993.

Crudely Wrot, try some of the internet African stations – much contemporary music from across the pond and turn right incorporates American rap and hip-hop, but it sounds to me like they make their own music all the way. I can’t imagine any pan-African music group not doing their own rhythms.

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Jamaican dance hall has some pretty good stuff, too

Oh – and Brazilian! Check out “Paul in Rio”, a fine internet station, for a wide variety of pop music which puts Yankee pop to shame. Ranges from swing to rain forest to hip-hop to ecstasy jazz.

And to get back on track, Fundamentalists do music, humor, and science, like kindergartners playing house. They not only have no real understanding of it, and unwittingly do an hilariously poor and simplified send up of it, but they are utterly clueless as to how obvious it it that they don’t know what the difference is.