Nothing can get a Bible verse trending on Twitter faster than an expletive-filled rap lyric pitting two rap factions against each other. After the verse Exodus 23:1 popped up as a worldwide trending ...

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It might seem, on the surface, that religion and rap (the music, not the knock, or the sandwich), have little in common: One is solemnly sacred; the other raucous and some times profane. However, two ...

Writer Shea Serrano discusses picking the most important rap song of every year since 1979 for his stunning illustrated history, The Rap Year Book. Rap music was probably not the most obvious choice ...

It doesn't take a lot to get a group of 7th grades to perform for a camera, especially when it's their own song that is now available around the world. The seventh grade class at Tyler's Grace ...

WATERLOO | Count the Rev. Larry McKinney among those who did not like reading the news last week that the Waterloo-Cedar Rapids corridor is among the least Bible-minded areas in the nation. On Sunday, ...

They may not be Big Boi and Andre 3000 (or even Matisyahu), but to the kids at Jewish day schools and camps who get to rap with Matt Bar and Ori Salzberg, these young Jewish educators are hip-hop ...

Hip-hop magazine The Source is losing a buzz war that’s getting as ugly as some of the battles between rappers themselves. Long the bible of rap, the magazine is in danger of losing its spot as the ...

If rap lyrics like “Real G’s move in silence like lasagna” stump you, check out Rap Genius. The crowdsourced hip-hop lyrics explanation site will inform you that Lil Wayne is describing how skilled ...

It’s Saturday night in Jerusalem’s Talbieh neighborhood, and a crowd of 50 is gathered to hear Matt Bar rap about the Bible. The lanky Iowa City native has achieved a kind of celebrity among young ...

Rap-A-Lot founder, J. Prince, remembers the Geto Boys' Bushwick Bill and touches on why he was "almost like a bible scholar." By Carl Lamarre On Sunday (June 9), Houston rap staple, Geto Boys, lost ...