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For those of us who lived in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, during the 1980s and early 1990s and were not raised in the church, we were unaware of our proximity to prophetic voices like Dr. Gardner C. Taylor at Concord Baptist Church of Christ, Dr. William Augustus Jones Jr. at Bethany Baptist Church, Dr. Sandy F. Ray at Cornerstone Baptist Church or Dr. Johnny Youngblood at St. Paul Baptist Church. Our pastors were Eric B & Rakim, Run-DMC, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, Biz Markie, MC Lyte, and Public Enemy. Our deacons were the Ultramagnetic MCs, LL Cool J, Audio Two, Stetsasonic, Kool G Rap, and EPMD. Our on-call ministers were N.W.A., Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, and Queen Latifah. Slick & Dougie Fresh were our pastoral counselors. The Dee Jay was our worship host and both the B-Boy and the graffiti artist were our liturgical dancers and scribes.
A Sacred Storm wrestles with the contention that Hip-hop emerged during the late 1970s and early 1980s on the fringe of urban decay as a prophetic response to the death-dealing effects of Ronald Reagan’s voodoo economics. Amid seismic shifts within the urban landscape, young prophetic voices began to arise outside of the reach of the church disrupting the status quo. Through acts of radical disruption, it can be argued, that God used unorthodox and poorly researched prophetic movements both within the genre of Hip-hop, as well as the witness of the church, to orchestrate social transformation within their respective context. As such, elements of faith, religious symbolism, and spirituality in both communities should be reimagined to bridge together a renewed hope and collaborative witness that speaks to the reality of the poor, marginalized, and oppressed who continue to suffer in this present age.
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