Gospel Hip-Hop In The Church
Written By Oudin on February 17th, 2010Gospel hip-hop, soca gospel, reggae gospel, etc in the Church? Discuss.
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well…as far as I learnt….where the music goes…the culture follows….do we really want the culture of angry hip hop music following our youth??….”LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION”!!!they are already bombarded by it in their environment….why bring in church as well?same goes for the all the other genres of music….God’s music should be set apart, and different from ALL others!!!God’s music should be HOLY!!!a language that the heavens can understand….btw…I am a young person….and I know what music can do to young people….
Changing the lyrics and calling it gospel is a neat trick of the devil. The fact remains that most times it’s the music and not the lyrics thats focused on. There has to be some distinction between gospel music and the other genres.
Just as you could hear a calypso and identify it to be so by its musical content, gospel music should have its own identity. The lyrics and the music should be so structured that it leaves no doubt in ones musical mind that we are hearing something that pertains to heavenly things. Also I think gospel music should be a vehicle to direct ones attention to the heavenly father. To him all the praise should go and thats in direct contrast to what the “wordly’ music seems to subscribe to.
we focus so much on genre of music not realising that the point is not just genre but the vehicle must be appropriate to take the message. some genres are definitely not appropriate to take the message because of high tempo which might encourage the listener to dance more than listen. e.g. soca, dance-hall were designed for reviling and partying, however, in church sometimes we use high tempo gospel music for “praise and worship” some of us who are not educated about music doesn’t even realise gospel does not have a genre. it means that we must be guided by the bible and the spirit of prophecy.whether the genre is popular or not that is not the important thing. what is important is if it will encourage the listener to meditate on the word “were the power lies” or will cause distraction from the message. remember a whole religion was formed across the Caribbean by putting there message in music….Rastafarian
With thinking young people like those who shared their comments above, our
furture will be hopeful with respect to our musical taste. Just over the weekend I was listening to some young people singing some songs and I could not help but wonder why we feel the need to imitate some of the popular Jamacian artistes and singers of what is now known as “conscious” music? I felt as if I was listening to a concert put on by one of our local music promoters. Given the richness of our talents, our young people need to be more conscious of the vehicles by which they attempt to transport such sacred treasures of truth and testimonies of faith in our loving lovable Father (God). To all our young artistes I solute you and encourage you to prayerfully consider all aspects of your musical ministry as your investment for God,
i think people should not imitate any one when ministering, however all of us are guilty of that in some form.either we have done it purposely or we were influenced by our environment,even pastors and evangelist do the same……even the music that most folks consider ‘ real gospel music’ came with a strong American influence and if you grew up on that it just might influence the way you make songs and sing them……after researching i realize that television evangelism was not appreciated by certain leaders in our church based on their cultural beliefs, but now we see how effective that vehicle is to spread the three angels message…let’s be guided by the holy spirit…..let us learn to love and reach people and use the effective tools available…..some off us will be shock to know how the Hebrew songs (psalms) were done……read chp.15 evangelism EG white.(powerful stuff).
Hip Hop isstreet music ,it is music that glorifies other gods ,it is a known religeon .The music is used to pull down our LORD AND saviour jesus christ.it is used to promotes other gods above the GOD OF THE BI.BLE
Are you serious..hip hop is a religion..come on now. the same music that you sing in the church we of african decent never even heard of before the slave movement. We had no idea what christanity was. If hip hop is a religion then “gospel” music is an occult. The words are what dictate ones way of life. What you people are speaking of is hip hop as a whole and you can not catagorize it like that. there are many branches of hip hop some good and some that just need to quit what they are doing. I love concious hip hop and anything that makes people aware of wrong doing by the so called government and those artist are very spiritual. I do not down any one’s faith to each his own. Preachers need to focus on saving lives rather than judging and sucking money from the very people who look to them for guidance.. minister’s are not to be paid for spreading the word. For this reason i do not attend a building that man made the bible say’s church is in your heart.
In the beginning was the word .. also GOD is love .. the first love is the love for GOD then each other … Kids say the words .. Praise the LORD my kids love the beat and they are saying praise the lord all day .. it’s better than .. i got 50 ways to kill .. on the same beat ..
i notice that some people don’t have a clue about what we are discusing…are we talking about the cords and precusion that hip hop and regae producers use in their song making or are we talking about their lyrical content?…of course the secular artiste does not glorify god in their life or their message…but someone will have no biblical support if they were to say that gospel music cannot be proclaimed on popular styles of music….i believe that some can be used appropiately..
(by the way the secular musicians use the same instruments that we use in church)
I have ever since joining the church discuss this same topic. Now I do agree that alot of this music should not make it’s way into church because of the influences behind the music. But i often wonder about the songs we deem acceptable for church and tend to adopt, they always tend to be more on the slower softer side which I am all for, but at the same time we are a people drive by a certain rhythm and beat and that’s why we like our music to have a lil spunk and honestly I don’t see anything wrong with it. But there is such a thing as time and place and I don’t see Hip/hop, reggae, soca etc as church music but are better suited for functions such as family days etc….and still with a degree of discretion.