The Soul of Hip Hop

The Soul of Hip Hop: Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology
TitleThe Soul of Hip Hop: Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2010
AuthorHodge, Daniel White
Number of Pages250
PublisherIVP Books
CityDowners Grove, IL
Publication Languageeng
ISBN or ASIN Number830837329
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What is Hip Hop? Hip hop speaks in a voice that is sometimes gruff, sometimes enraged, sometimes despairing, sometimes hopeful. Hip hop is the voice of forgotten streets laying claim to the high life of rims and timbs and threads and bling. Hip hop speaks in the muddled language of would-be prophets--mocking the architects of the status quo and stumbling in the dark toward a blurred vision of a world made right. What is hip hop? It's a cultural movement with a traceable theological center. Daniel White Hodge follows the tracks of hip-hop theology and offers a path from its center to the cross, where Jesus speaks truth.