TOP 250 HOLY HIP HOP SONGS

Los Angeles/Atlanta/New York (April 26, 2018) –ChristianHipHop.com announced its Official List of Top 250 Holy Hip Hop Songs, From Ministers of the Gospel over the past 20+ years (1996-2018), that are enlightening the community, changing the paradigm and steadily elevating the Holy Hip Hop Genre of music ministry (a/k/a - christian hip hop, hip hop gospel, gospel hip hop, gospel rap, christian rap, hip hop ministry) to higher ground worldwide in furtherance of the global movement/mission to Take The Gospel To The Streets, as follows:

1. I Am That I Am - Cross Movement

2. It Don't Stop - Mr. Del

3. Hallelujah All Day - Datin

4. Preacher Man - Canton Jones

5. Resistance Iz Futile - Corey Red & Precise

6. Cost of Blood – Sincere Israel

7. Favor – Ambassador

8. OhKay - K-Drama

9. Few Are Chosen - Lil Raskull

10. Not Soft - Cash Hollistah

11. Call Em Out - Dre Marshall

12. Passion - R. Swift

13. King - Bravo

14. Motivation - This'l

15. Give Yo Life – Pettidee

16. FireProof - F.T.F.

17. Solar-Powered - Brinson

18. P31 – Murk

19. Changed - Hansoul

20. In The Air - 2Edge

21. Hip-Hop Music - Phanatik

22. Fall - Sevin

23. Righteous - Fro

24. Die Daily - Sean Slaughter

25. Tell The World - Lecrae

26. I'm A Christian - Bizzle

27. Head Up High - Rawsrvnt

28. I'll Be Good - Gospel Gangstaz

29. Fired Up - Infamous

30. Reach - WayneJTM

31. My Lane - Dre Murray

32. All The Way - The Watchman

33. Out of Here - Garett Lee

34. Let Me In - Zion

35. Why Can't They Hear Me - KNINE

36. 4-U - K-Love

37. Feel Good Music - Minister Blak

38. Virtuous Woman - Tragedy

39. Wait - State

40. Where My Christians At - Dice Gamble

41. Jumpin - Derek Minor

42. Dear Slim - KJ-52

43. Blowin Up - Hallel P

44. Round Em Up - Canon

45. Get Live (He Alive) - Fedel

46. Way Up - Tedashii

47. I Ain't Runnin - Desciple

48. That's What You Are - D. Reed

49. Rockstar - Cheno Lyfe

50. Worthy - Brother Dre

51. So Blessed - J. Kwest

52. Out Tha Box - Easop

53. Dont Be Mad - BB-Jay

54. Y U Runnin - XROSS

55. Until I Pass Out - Uncle Reece

56. Holy Ghost Fire - T-Haddy

57. Praise Him - Shei Atkins

58. 1234 - JD Eyebrows

59. HodgePodge - Kambino

60. Young, Fly & Saved – M3

61. In Da Streetz - 2Five

62. National Anthem - Mark J

63. Turn This Up - T-Bone

64. Work It Out - Erica Mason

65. Lets Go - D-M.A.U.B.

66. All I Have – NF

67. The Gaze - Proverb Newsome

68. Come On - Breeve Eazy

69. Let It Glow - TP9

70. Poison - Double

71. Salute - True

72. Champion - Warriors of The Cross

73. Rock – Ty Scott

74. Belongs To You - Damion Orlando

75. Grace and Mercy - Swisaboi

76. Choose This Day - Todd Tense

77. Backslider - Sandor

78. Stop Playin - Tre-9

79. Rep Christ Yal - Doulos

80. Set Us On Fire - Tawanna Ross

81. The King – Brother Mario

82. Rollin - NAK Daniels

83. Tap In – Zelus

84. Let's Get It - 1KPhew

85. Tuff - J.A.Z.

86. Party - Dfizzle Mayne

87. Repent Or Perish - Obadiah-1

88. I Believe – Holy Hot Boyz

89. The Warning – Bari Tunstill

90. Finally Here - Chozen

91. Unorthodox - Urban D

92. Sweet Victory - Trip Lee

93. Real Love - Buckbarnabas

94. Clarion Call – Army of the Lord Champions

95. Dive – Social Club Misfits

96. Church Gone Wild - Future Kid

97. Elder Road - S.O.

98. I Believe – KB

99. Get It Str8 - Lil Dre

100. Hope - Da Truth

101. Rapid Fire - Keep The Word

102. Lev. 11:45 – C.Micah

103. Do What It Do - Richie Righteous

104. Passing Blessings - Keylin Santana

105. You Can't Stop Me – Andy Mineo

106. Illusions - Choze

107. I'm In The Streets - Japhia Life

108. Snap Bounce - The Clergy

109. Big Tymin - Scooda

110. 100Ms - Chris Elijah

111. Eternity – Brandi Booth

112. Forever - Rio24K

113. Pray - LANDR

114. Ravens - Least of All (L.O.A.)

115. SWRVN - CJ King

116. So What - Suzy Rock

117. In Satan's Name - Bruthaz Grimm

118. All Inclusive 2Nite - STIKK

119. Boogie Bounce - Shonlock

120. Holy Water (H20) - M.A.J.O.R.S.

121. How U Doin - Nue Breed

122. Swerve - K-Lee

123. Going To The Top Now - HEE-Sun Lee

124. For My City - J.A.M. Team

125. Good or Great - Jai Dowdy

126. Highest Praise - RevDeep

127. Hood Like Keyshia Cole - Metroclus

128. I For Jesus - Wingy Danejah

129. The Dead Living - JohnThreeSixteen

130. Changez - Tha GIM

131. Handle It - Lil Maurice

132. On My Behalf - Mario Mitchell

133. Who U Seekn - Hevn Li Angel

134. Hey! Hey! - Martay

135. Who Is God - Mobsters of Light

136. Can I Get An Ay - Willie Will

137. Club Blazer - The Preachaholicz

138. Raw and Uncut - Ziklag

139. Ten - Zeno Suave

140. March - Jirah

141. Christ Crucified - Shai Linne

142. God's Gift - Eastwood

143. Problems - Yaves

144. Reflections - O' Dion

145. Blaow! – FireJaws

146. All The Time - Swoope

147. Divine Touch - Quinton Harris

148. HelpMate - Markilo Allen

149. Christ - Shadow

150. Sick of My Flesh - TonyWhoa!

151. Give It To You - Andre Achat

152. God Is Love - Big Prophet

153. Mobigga – Crunk In Da Church House

154. No Greater Love - The Spiritual Lyricist

155. Loose - LaToria

156. Shake N Bake - 2.0

157. Protected – Dale J. Evans

158. Wave Dem Towels – DJ Intangibles

159. Provision – Fight

160. Hello – Blessed

161. Soul At War – Fatal J/Young Lions

162. Iron Man – JustFlo

163. We Need A Savior – RiverFlow

164. Stay Focused – Dking

165. Sho Baraka - Marantha

166. Fear Not - Theory Hazit

167. I'm Alive – Authentik

168. Witness– Preacherman

169. Hold On – 7Tre

170. Still Radical – W.A.R. Klick

171. 5 O' Clock - Sean C. Johnson

172. Up Yonda - Rook

173. Shine – The Priesthood

174. This Is Me – Dynamic Twins

175. U Don't Wanna – C.O.R.P. 1

176. Temptation – Da Horsemen

177. I Will Survive – B.L.I.N.D

178. Thinkin Out Loud - Parabols

179. All 4 U – iGorilla4MyLord

180. Passing Us By – Kingsta

181. GodBlessha – Milliyon

182. Jesus On My Mind – Da Church

183. One GOD – 2103

184. Unusual - Sicily

185. Criticize Me – Big City

186. The Blood – Big Unc

187. Grind N Pray – Bishop Bee

188. A New Song – Brutha 2 Brutha

189. Waves - Pyrexx

190. Something About – GL Hodges

191. I'll Go – Blazon

192. Lift My Handz – Crystal Cameron

193. Dedicate – Chris Fields

194. Mr. 217 – Move Dat Mountain

195. Let It Go – Eckspress/Tribs

196. He Did It Again – Flame

197. Set Free – IC Jonez

198. Holy Rollers – Infinity

199. Focus – Izreal

200. Throw Em Off – JayMay

201. Get Crunk – JCS

202. 66 Guns – D.O.X.

203. Come Go With Me – Jita

204. 84 Pills – Kaleb Starr

205. Fool Wit It - Big Moose

206. I'm a Rida – Legions of Souls/TCO

207. Studda – Odessi

208. Keep Pressin On – Lil La La

209. Dat Holy Girl – Lunie 3:80

210. Preacher Man - Charmaine

211. Brand New Me – MC Jin

212. The Realness – N'aeem

213. Reign - Newt Newt

214. Sexual Immorality – Noah

215. Dead Man Walkin – Nuwine

216. Glory To God – EmceeN.I.C.E

217. Just Can't Stop – Leslie Shannelle

218. Changed – Princess

219. Life or Death – Prime Minister

220. Crazie – Rio

221. Keep Goin – Boy Wonda

222. Jesus Everyday – S.O.G.

223. Trust On Me – Tabsoul

224. Eyes of the Lord – Te Luvv

225. Kill Yourself – Antonious

226. Significance - Elle Roc

227. Worship You – True-In-Deed

228. Devil's Lies – TwinSaintz

229. Rep Yahweh – Xstatic (Kuntry Wyte & Pyro)

230. Hittin Dem Streets – Young Prayzr

231. You Are My Help – Baby J

232. I Testify – We Are The Saints

233. Sovereign King – Deborah

234. Count Your Blessings – K-Praize

235. Choose Side - FFOR

236. Cant Get Enough - Fiti Futuristic

237. Imma Still – Triumph Warlord

238. Get It Right – Eryk Anglin

239. He Is Alive - Shamel Shiloh

240. Who You Representin - IROCC

241. Lay My Voice On You – Man On Fire

242. A Call For Response – King David (Tha Vessel)

243. Brody Raw - Pressure

244. Fightin Demons – D. Hunter

245. No Games – Child of Zion

246. Faith On Swoll - Echo

247. Show Off – Jesus Or Bust

248. What It Iz – Octavia Harris

249. Make It Rain – BdKold

250. Anonymous – The Walking Dead

Holy Hip Hop Top 10 Most Requested Songs

LOS ANGELES, CA (April 10, 2018) – Holy Hip Hop Mobile announced its Top 10 requested songs from its digital subscriber base, as follows:

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TOP 200 HOLY HIP HOP ARTISTS

Los Angeles/Atlanta/New York (April 4, 2018) – ChristianHipHop.com announced its Official List of Top 200 Holy Hip Hop Pioneers and Ministers of the Gospel over the past 20+ years (1996-2018) advancing the Holy Hip Hop Genre of music worldwide, as follows:

1. Cross Movement

2. Canton Jones

3. T-Bone

4. Pettidee

5. Mr. Del

6. Ambassador

7. Bizzle

8. Corey Red & Precise

9. K-Drama

10. R. Swift

11. Lil Raskull

12. Phanatik

13. D-M.A.U.B.

14. Shai Linne

15. 2Edge

16. Sho Baraka

17. Da Truth

18. Rawsrvnt

19. Tre-9

20. Sevin

21. Sean Slaughter

22. Fro

23. Kambino

24. Sincere Israel

25. J. Kwest

26. Hansoul

27. T-Haddy

28. Datin

29. Brinson

30. Lecrae

31. Trip Lee

32. Urban D

33. Fiti Futuristic

34. Minister Blak

35. Ace Infiniti

36. XROSS

37. Dre Murray

38. Buckbarnabas

39. Dice Gamble

40. Ricardo Flo

41. IDOL KINGS

42. Japhia Life

43. Richie Righteous

44. Elle Roc

45. IROCC

46. Fedel

47. Tedashii

48. Cheno Lyfe

49. 2Five

50. Desciple

51. Tha GIM

52. A-1 SWIFT

53. Gospel Gangstaz

54. Eastwood

55. Tragedy

56. This'l

57. GodSunz

58. Mark J

59. Bobby Bishop

60. LG WISE

61. Sup The Chemist

62. Ricky B. & 4Given

63. Shei Atkins

64. Andy Mineo

65. Tunnel Rats

66. JD Eyebrows

67. Brother Dre

68. Dre Marshall

69. Fros'T

70. D. Reed

71. Zion

72. Son of Jesse

73.  The Priesthood

74. Colcutz

75. Ziklag

76. LA Symphony

77. STIKK

78. 116 Clique

79. Mars Ill

80. Flame

81. Rapid Fire

82. M.A.J.O.R.S.

83. Mobigga

84. Breeve Eazy

85. KNINE

86. Double

87. True

88. Warriors of The Cross

89. Shamel Shiloh

90. C. Micah

91. Damion Orlando

92. Todd Tense

93. LaToria

94. Infamous

95. IC Jonez

96. Doulos

97. Todd Bangz

98. Shy Da Gifted

99. Kuntrey Wyte & Pyro

100. Tawanna Ross

101. KJ-52

102. NAK Daniels

103. Brody Raw

104. Bruthaz Grimm

105. Light Da Flow Minister

106. K-Bizzy

107. K-Lee

108. Nova 4 Jehovah

109. Dynamic Twins

110. J.A.Z.

111. Dfizzle Mayne

112. Frankie Cutlass

113. Obadiah-1

114. The Clergy

115. Enock

116. Ty Scott

117. Sicily

118. Chozen

119. Blazon

120. Halo & Reign

121. Theory Hazit

122. Metroclus

123. KB

124. Milliyon

125. Cash Hollistah

126. CY

127. Swoope

128. Zeno Suave

129. Canon

130. WayneJTM

131. Rook

132. S.O.

133. Keylin Santana

134. Mr. 217

135. 1KPhew

136. Derek Minor

137. D.O.X.

138. Chris Elijah

139. Scooda

140. Lil Dre

141. Garett Lee

142. Rio24K

143. LANDR

144. Least of All (L.O.A.)

145. Brotha Mario

146. G-Child

147. MC Jin

148. Boy Wonda

149. Suzy Rock

150. Murk

151. Erica Mason

152. Bravo

153. Uncle Reece

154. Nue Breed

155. K-Love

156. HEE-Sun Lee

157. J.A.M. Team

158. Jai Dowdy

159. RevDeep

160. State

161. Shadow

162. Big Prophet

163. Hallel P

164. CJ King

165. Mario Mitchell

166. Hevn Li Angel

167. Prime Minister

168. Erica Cumbo

169. Antonious

170. Martay

171. Mobsters of Light

178. Willie Will

179. The Preachaholicz

180. The Watchman

181. Sean C. Johnson

182. Jirah

183. Carriers of the Cross

184. F.T.F.

185. BB-Jay

186. Yaves

187. Nuwine

188. O' Dion

189. S.O.G.

190. FireJaws

191. FFOR

192. Quinton Harris

193. Markilo Allen

194. Wingy Danejah

195. TonyWhoa!

196. Swisaboi

197. JohnThreeSixteen

198. Proverb Newsome

199. The Spiritual Lyricist

200. Sandor

Using Holy Hip Hop To Reach the Children, Youth and Adults:
A Practical Guide Grounded in Scripture From the Holy Hip Hop Music Alliance
Author: The Seventh Knight Edited By: Da Preachin Puerto Rican

Man created Hip Hop, true. But, just like paper was invented by man to put the Word of God on it and made "Holy" to be used for His Purpose, Hip Hop can also be Holy" and be used for God's Purpose also (1 Cor 10:31). The Ark of The Covenant, though made by man, was just an ark until God made it "Holy". It was so "Holy" that anyone who touched it without permission was struck dead by God; please see 1 Chronicles 13:5-13. Verse 7 within that text throws out "the beat of a drum is evil" theory.

In Matthew 28:18-20, Jesus Christ gives His disciples The Great Commission to Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you. As disciples of Christ, we are to share the gospel and make disciples of men. God has also given us guidance that we are to share the gospel message regardless of race, culture, or gender, according to Romans 3:29, Rom 1:16. The Apostle Paul gives us the prime example of how he became all things to all men that by all means he might win some, according to 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. In Acts 17:16-34, Paul shows how he used the existing culture of the people to preach to them Christ.

If it's for God's Purpose then God makes it "Holy". Starting in the late 70’s, in the Bronx New York, some of Hip Hop’s pioneers include DJ Cool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Cold Crush brothers, Sugar Hill Gang, Funky Four Plus One, and many more. Even these pioneers, were influenced by the likes of Gil Scott-Heron, Marvin Gaye, and more. Hip Hop came about as a means of revolting against what was popular music at the time. Even Cab Calloway was doing "hip-hop" back in the 1930's in the form of Jazz and BeBop! It was intended to voice our feelings whether spiritual or otherwise in a way that was, shall we say, was "unconventional" at the time. Certain traditionalists believed that it would never last because it lacked substance and marketability.

Rap music from its inception has always had lyrics that were encoded to reach those who were in the streets of urban America. Even the slave songs, which by the way had God (Holy) and "rap" in them), expressed spiritual and physical themes. No different than those who were in slavery cried out to GOD from their hearts in a musical form that was relative to their culture, so too does the Hip Hop Culture cry out. Psalm 19:14 says, “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.” Ephesians 4:29 says, Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.”

Let’s look at a passage of scripture from 1 Corinthians 8:1-13. Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him. Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. For us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live. However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse. But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak. For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols? And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for who Christ died? But when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. What does this mean? It means that the "food itself" is not considered unholy. It's only unholy, when the idol worshippers who specifically prepare the food to worship their false gods influence you! The same goes for music.

Again, we ask you. Can GOD take something that was unholy and make it holy? This time, let's use a "someone" instead of a "something”: Saul witnessed and approved of the stoning of "Stephen" a man full of the Holy Spirit (Acts 7:54-60). That same "Saul" became "Paul" and wrote two thirds of the New Testament. How could this be possible, if the power of God to transform is not supreme? God can be worshipped in many ways to include using "Hip Hop" to do so (1 Cor 10:31, Col 3:17), just as God used Paul to preach and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

You know the verse "the love of money is the root of all evil" (1 Tim 6:10) well nothing is wrong with the money itself, is it? Money in itself is not evil but it can be used for evil purposes. Just look at how some people operate with it. Money can also be used for "holy" purposes like building the church, giving to those that need it from the "benevolence fund" amongst other things. The same can be said for "Hip Hop." It can be used for evil or it can be used for righteousness. Jesus said that himself earlier in Matthew 12:34-37: For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. A good person brings good things out of a treasure of good things; a bad person brings bad things out of a treasure of bad things. "You can be sure that on the Judgment Day you will have to give account of every useless word you have ever spoken. Your words will be used to judge you-to declare you either innocent or guilty."

Then later in Matthew 15:10-20 Then Jesus called the crowd to him and said to them, "Listen and understand! It is not what goes into your mouth that makes you ritually unclean; rather, what comes out of it makes you unclean." Then the disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees had their feelings hurt by what you said?" "Every plant which my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up," answered Jesus. "Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch." Peter spoke up, "Explain this saying to us." Jesus said to them, "You are still no more intelligent than the others. Don't you understand? Anything that goes into your mouth goes into your stomach and then on out of your body. But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these are the things that make you ritually unclean. For from your heart come the evil ideas which lead you to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others. These are the things that make you unclean. But to eat without washing your hands as they say you should-this doesn't make you unclean."

In Genesis 3:14-19 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

In Exodus 3:1-10 One day while Moses was taking care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, he led the flock across the desert and came to Sinai, the holy mountain. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him as a flame coming from the middle of a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire but that it was not burning up. "This is strange," he thought. "Why isn't the bush burning up? I will go closer and see." When the Lord saw that Moses was coming closer, he called to him from the middle of the bush and said, "Moses! Moses!" He answered, "Yes, here I am." God said, "Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals, because you are standing on "holy ground." I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." So Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God. Then the Lord said, "I have seen how cruelly my people are being treated in Egypt; I have heard them cry out to be rescued from their slave drivers. I know all about their sufferings, and so I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of Egypt to a spacious land, one which is rich and fertile and in which the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites now live. I have indeed heard the cry of my people, and I see how the Egyptians are oppressing them. Now I am sending you to the king of Egypt so that you can lead my people out of his country."

What can we conclude from this? THE EARTH WAS CURSED BY GOD AS RESULT OF SATAN'S ACTION AND ADAM'S SIN, AND YET GOD MADE A PART OF THE EARTH "HOLY" TO CALL MOSES!! He told Moses to "take the sandals off your feet for the place in which you stand is HOLY GROUND!" (Exodus 3:5) If God can make a "part" of the "Cursed Earth" "Holy," then are we, as Christians, doubting what our "Father" can do?" Would we dare to say that God can speak through a donkey, but not through Hip Hop? Of Course Not! Just like with any information, we have to be careful of how we interpret it (2 Tim 2:15). Remember, Satan can make what seems "right" wrong and what seems "wrong" hidden.

Hip Hop can be Holy to serve Our Master, Jesus Christ. Music is neither good nor bad in itself but it depends on what the purpose of it is for by the individual. How it's used determines it's value; whether it's used for God or whether it's use for Satan. The word "Holy" in the Bible means to "separate or set apart for God's use or for special use." Hip Hop is a music genre. It has no "intrinsic" qualities of good or bad. You and I both know that the words to songs carry the major part of their value. I say major because the music also make a contribution to the message of the song. The basic formula for music is Lyrics + Melody = A Song.

The Bible says in John 6:63, The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. The spirit that is influencing a person when he/she creates the lyrics or music is the key to being holy. Then, the spirit that is influencing the person doing the song determines the power that is released in the selection. So the music genre is not as much the issue as the spirit that influences the creation of the material.

What is most important is that one seek The Father and find out what HIS will is according to scripture (Acts 17:11). Find a quiet place with no distractions and read the word, and meditate on it until you get understanding, and seek spiritual counsel from mature believers who are knowledgeable in GOD’s word (Proverbs 4:7, 11:14). This synopsis is presented with scripture as the guidance and the Holy Spirit as the counsel (Heb 4:12, John 16:13). Just because it's not the “traditional method” doesn't mean that Ministers of the Gospel can't use this method to spread the Word of God (Mat 28:18-20).

It's not the music that's the enemy. It's the presentation of the fruit. If the masses are continually fed "sour lemons" then the demand for lemons will continue because it's what they are "used" to and have become dependent on. If you turn those same sour lemons into "lemonade” (pressed and sweetened by the Word of GOD), then the masses will gain a new taste and this is what the enemy fears.

GOD has made Hip Hop Holy! Now use it to establish His Kingdom in the Earth and win them back one at a time – James 5:20 – Amen.

Ric Flair , Arn Anderson , Ole Anderson , and Tully Blanchard , better known as the Four Horsemen, were the biggest threat in the mid 1980’s era of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). In every NWA promo they talked trash about the competition, flaunted their title belts, and backed up their trash talk in the ring. Their tight knit group has been described as the reason the NWA survived as long as it did.

Although the wrestling league is no longer around, the legacy of The Four Horsemen is long lasting and has inspired battle rap’s Christian artists whose rap group goes by the same name, but stylized with Roman Numerals.

Th3 Saga (a URL battler who came up from URL’s Proving Ground), A-Ward (who battles mostly on King of The Dot and is in the running for the KOTD championship chain), Street Hymns (a backpacking wordsmith who battles on Bullpen Battle League), and Loso (a free agent who many believe is the next guy to take over battle rap) are The IV Horsemen . And although the name their team bares is a wrestling and not a biblical reference, the quartet does share one thing in common – their religion.

“Violence is like the native language of battle rap,” Th3 Saga tells The Source . “We’ve grown to a place where killing people in battle rap or talking about anything negative are the norm.”

Th3 Saga, born in Brooklyn, New York, got his start in battle rap on the Smack/URL platform. He quickly got recognized as one of the top battlers of his class because he has a different approach to battling. What set him apart from his class was how he was able to entertain battle fans while subtly passing along a God inspired message.

Battle rappers today center their lyrics on insults, personal attacks, jokes, and above all, gun lines. The ten gauge, the nine, the blickie, the AR, the “gun so big I had to drag it home.” All these different schemes rappers use to dramatize their arsenal and the fans not only eat it up but demand and expect it.

So how do Christian rappers fit into this scene?

“I’ve been through plenty of situations where I shouldn’t have survived,” said Saga. “Shootouts and everything. Just because I’m Christian does not mean I’m perfect.”

Although the 26-year-old rapper has experienced things relevant to the battle culture, he found his way out of it and found his calling with God. But still, Saga doesn’t omit his past when preparing for a battle.

“I want to speak to you in your language. I want to leave you with something substantial enough that when you weed past the gun bars, when you weed past the nonsense, you’re going to gain something that you could actually go home with [and think] ‘that’s crazy.’” said Saga.

Th3 Saga’s religious background is traceable back to his grandfather who has his own church in Brooklyn, the same church Saga grew up in. The same cannot be said for Loso, who didn’t find religion until his early 20’s.

“I thought it was corny,” Loso states. I didn’t want anything to do with a life devoted to the Lord. He really came and interrupted my life.”

Raised on rap music, Loso didn’t touch a mic until after he found Christianity – so his lyrics always carried a religious message. In his first ever battle in 2015, Loso sent shockwaves throughout his hometown of Tampa, reaffirming that he was on the right path that eventually led him to Street Hymns.

“I met [Street Hymns] entering a rap competition… it brought out the top ten rappers from around the country to Chicago. We went against each other in the first round.”

Loso went on to win the competition, and although there was no talk at the time of forming a group, Loso and Street Hymns did make a connection following their battle.

The last of the Horsemen is A-Ward, a Knoxville native currently residing in Kansas City, whose older brother introduced him to Nas and the Wu-tang Clan at a young age. Like Loso, when A-Ward took up rap he had already found his faith. In his early teens, A-Ward started going to church and rapping around the same time.

“In high school I became familiar with Smack DVDs through my older brother. In 2002 I became a fan of battle rap – I watched it for over 10 years before I started [battling],” A-Ward reveals.

In 2015, A-Ward got his first battle and has continued to climb up the King of the Dot ranks currently chasing the championship chain currently held by Head I.C.E..

In a lot of ways, although Th3 Saga was the founder of the group, Street Hymns was the connection that brought everyone together. A-Ward had already heard of Street Hymns just off the buzz he was creating in Dallas and linking up through mutual friends. Street Hymns cosigned A-Ward when speaking to Saga who linked with A-Ward via social media. Street Hymns also had the connection to Loso from the rap competition, so it was only a matter of time before the four artists banded together.

Rather than just call themselves The IV Horsemen and make their rounds in the battle scene, they want to try something more ambitious. The group plans to organize a nationwide tour – performing their music, 2 on 2 battles, selling merchandise and ending each show with a panel discussion to talk about faith.

Aside from performances, the four rappers maintain a group chat where they pray for each other, offer advice, provide words of wisdom, and “sharpen each other’s swords,” Loso says, meaning keeping each other on point not with just battling but being better men in all aspects of life.

“It’s like the end of the NBA season,” said A-Ward. You have LeBron working out with Karl Anthony-Towns and Anthony Davis – We’re rappers on the same level working out together.”

“… I want to make sure that anybody I associate with has the same heart for God and that we can follow the same path – that we’re not steering each other off the path,” said Saga. “We feel like we’re really called by God to be that seed in Battle rap.”

Having already planted seeds in the battle leagues, only time will tell how far The IV Horsemen take their careers.

Source: TheSource.com

Steve Hilton: Silicon Valley’s surveillance capitalism has resulted in Big Tech killing off human privacy

By Steve Hilton | Fox News 

The case against Big Tech seems to be building by the week. And interestingly, some of the most powerful evidence is being provided by those who really know what they’re talking about: tech insiders.

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Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive responsible for growing the social network’s user base, recently argued that Silicon Valley had “created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.”

Palihapitiya lamented Big Tech’s role in our democratic debates: “No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem – this is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem.”

He cited the role of mobile messaging service WhatsApp (owned by Facebook) in the killings of seven innocent men in India after hoax messages about strangers abducting children were shared.

“That’s what we’re dealing with,” Palihapitiya said. “And imagine taking that to the extreme, where bad actors can now manipulate large swathes of people to do anything you want. It’s just a really, really bad state of affairs.” He said he tries to use Facebook as little as possible, and that his children “aren’t allowed to use that s---.”

His comments are in line with another huge figure in tech, early Facebook investor Sean Parker, who blasted the addictive properties of Silicon Valley’s technology: “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.”

Parker argued that Facebook “literally changes your relationship with society” and “probably interferes with productivity in weird ways.”

Parker said that because the whole point of Facebook is to keep people using it. He said “the thought process … was all about: ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’” That’s why the inventors of tech services like Facebook give their users “a little dopamine hit every once in a while,” for example through ‘likes’ and comments: “It’s a social-validation feedback loop ... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.”

Parker went on to say that the men who designed and built these social media platforms, like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram’s Kevin Systrom, “understood consciously” what they were doing. “And we did it anyway.”

Many commentators have made the comparison between these insider admission and the moment when the tobacco companies finally admitted that their products kill people. No one has suggested that technology actually kills people by design. But in other ways, the case against Big Tech is even more damning than the case against Big Tobacco, simply because Big Tech is so much more powerful and plays so much greater a role in our modern world.

The tech companies love the fact that they have risen to the apex of the business pile. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft top the list of the world’s most valuable corporations.

The companies love to boast in high-minded terms about how their mission is not something as mundane as making money. No, they are all about “changing the world,” as Apple CEO Tim Cook recently claimed. Well, with all that wealth and power comes influence. And increasingly, despite our Silicon Valley overlords’ self-regarding and cloyingly sanctimonious smugness, it’s not for the good.

Let’s look at the charge sheet. It goes well beyond the “addiction admissions” of whistleblowing insiders like Sean Parker and Chamath Palihapitiya.

Because the business model of many of these tech firms relies on selling ads, their relentless focus is on gathering data on their users – that would be you – to enable advertisers to better target their messages.

With a phone in everyone’s pocket, these companies can now literally track your every move. And the creepiness seems to get worse by the day. Only this week we heard that clothing company L.L. Bean said it is planning to install sensors into some of its boots and coats to track how they’re used.

This intense data-gathering of your most intimate decisions – where you go, who you talk to, what you like or don’t like – is only going to get worse. With new “home assistants” like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home, Big Tech is now right at the heart of family life.

Children are growing up talking to Alexa as if “she” is a member of the family. Silicon Valley is actively exploring computer chips that would be inserted into people’s brains, so that artificial intelligence software can be “merged” with human thought.
Who owns all this data and what will happen to it? Quite apart from the sheer creepiness of tech companies wanting to invade your brain, we know from recent experience that literally everything can be hacked – whether by criminals or foreign governments like China that hacked our own government and stole millions of Americans’ most personal data.

Silicon Valley’s surveillance capitalism has killed off human privacy. Did anyone ask them to do that? They say people want the convenience of data-enabled services – but for most people, there’s no alternative. If everyone else is on Facebook you have to be there too, and you can only do that if you tick the box that signs away your privacy forever.

Artificial intelligence, of course, is not just about invading your privacy: it’s assaulting our economy too. Studies predict that huge swaths of jobs will be destroyed by Big Tech as it advances into new areas of economic activity and automates jobs from truck driving to accounting.

Silicon Valley’s only response to the economic devastation it’s about to unleash on American workers is to push forward the idea of a “Universal Basic Income” – a government wage regardless of whether you work.

Translation: “We, your tech overlords will be doing all the interesting work. Sadly, there won’t be any jobs left for you serfs – but don’t worry, we’ll makes sure the government gives you some money so you can sit around all day and make the most of your newfound leisure time. Enjoy, little people!”

Big Tech’s baleful economic impact extends to another disastrous feature of our modern economy: a stifling of competition. This has contributed to the lowest level of start-ups in decades, and the wage stagnation that has hurt American workers so badly.

When sector after sector in our economy ends up being dominated by a handful of giant corporations, workers lose their bargaining power. This trend is made worse by the growing dominance of the tech companies that are not only dominating their own markets – whether that’s in media, through ad sales, or book retailing – but in fundamental aspects of business life. Just try starting a business these days without using Google, Facebook or Amazon products.

The one marketplace that Silicon Valley has not yet managed to dominate, however, is China. But it’s not for want of trying. Companies like Apple and Google are desperately sucking up to the brutal authoritarian communist regime in China in order to gain access to the vast market.

But in the process, our own leading companies are aiding and abetting China’s plan for world domination by handing over technology – like artificial intelligence – that China will use against us.

And finally let’s not forget the role of Silicon Valley in shaping our culture and the way we think. Sometimes you see it in pernicious side effects of automated systems for getting users to consume content.
We saw this this week with the Wall Street Journal’s expose of YouTube’s role in pushing its users towards extreme videos and conspiracy theories. But frankly, we can also see this in the manifestation of the liberal bias that pervades Silicon Valley and the tech industry.

We will reveal shocking new evidence of Big Tech’s anti-conservative and even anti-religious bias on “The Next Revolution” this Sunday as we put Big Tech on Trial. Hope you can join us at 9 p.m. EST on Fox News Channel!

Source: (c) FoxNews.com -- http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/10/steve-hilton-silicon-valley-s-surveillance-capitalism-has-resulted-in-big-tech-killing-off-human-privacy.html

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