A rapper by the name of Marshall “Gripp” Gillson (also a 2009 graduate of Morehouse College) is independently releasing (PDF) an album today called Head in the Cloud.

Several of the singles from it have atheistic themes, including the song “The Future Goes“:

An excerpt from the lyrics (at the 1:14 mark):

So when we say that we’re better than you/ essentially that//
is to say that we pay attention to facts//
So come with us. We can teach you every attack//
the pseudoscientific mindset sets in a trap//
You will never go back/ Once you’re given the awe//
it’s grander than any caricature religion could draw//
I had a vision of all/ of us in a prison of straw men//
My mission is to make sure they ain’t winning this war//
So the battle lines are drawn in the sand/ ‘cos all that I am//
is a man/ shaping his logical thoughts to a plan/ Damn//
We need clear heads to get out of this mess//
So tell religious leaders step aside; it’s probably best/ Yes//

Who needs Gospel music when there’s Godless rapping to be spread?

Buy the album and keep this sort of thing going!

Hip-hop singer Toby Ganger just released an EP called “Evolutionary” and the title track sounds pretty awesome:

An excerpt from the lyrics:

…the other side interested in scaring
the rest of us here with a message of fear
so todays questions appear
through the lens of yesterday’s perception of fair
and the prejudice clear
whenever they’re debating on who gets to be married
always saying to protect the kids
really they’re afraid we’ll reject their myths

The entire album or just the single can be found on his site.

Canadian rapper Mischif wrote the following song. The lyrics are below so you can sing along. (Hey, I’m a poet and I don’t even know it!)

Chorus 2X:
Living a lie.
Never given the time to even think but you were given a mind.
Start to think and you’ll find the very truth that is hidden inside
and stop believing in the lie the sky. (The lie in the sky.)

Verse 1:
Brainwashed since birth to believe so they’ll live in fear.
Get them scared at a young age of a god that isn’t there.
Train the youth to hate ya, for obeyin’ human nature.
Major religions taking young children to mutilate them.
I wish there was a hell so the Pope could see the beast
for covering up crimes of the pedophile priests.
We don’t need religion to teach morals… ridiculous.
Your backwards way of thinkin’ is looking so hideous.
Mother Teresa wasn’t special; it was a cover up.
Witnesses of her so called miracles, they would shut them up.
Magazines printing full stories that reeked of fabrication,
while the sheep followed so blindly and gave her adulation.
If we all come from a white Adam and Eve, some one
tell me where all of the different colors of the world come from.
There’s no evidence for a god, but there is for evolution.
Let’s rebuild the mind that religion’s been polluting

Chorus 2X:
Living a lie.
Never given the time to even think but you were given a mind.
Start to think and you’ll find the very truth that is hidden inside
and stop believing in the lie the sky. (The lie in the sky.)

Verse 2:
The church imprisoned Galileo for the birth of modern science
’cause they don’t want us to learn. They want mankind’s compliance.
Giving us facts, but religion had to take him out
for teaching we went around the sun and not the other way around.
Religion gave us the dark ages, the heartless
thousand-year period of intellectual darkness.
How can you believe that creation was instantaneous?
Yet all the worlds genocides, god also gave to yas?
Modern organisms from simple to complex
only reflect an evolutionary process.
When someone young dies, “god’s work’s a mystery.”
Forget the millions killed in his name throughout history.
Coincidences happen and some become spiritual
and suddenly wanna label the incident a miracle.
Mind control is just religions main obsession.
Born with curiosity but you better suppress it.

(Thanks to Mark for the link and lyrics!)