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Hip-Hop Prayer Book?

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  1. standingfirminChrist

    standingfirminChrist New Member

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    gekko,

    I have in the lowest neighborhoods in 4 different states. Projects in Greensboro, NC (ghetto)... HUD housing in Hampton, Va, two locations (ghetto)... also in Beaufort, SC.


    I know a little about getto slang. I know about lifestyles in getto.
     
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  2. gekko

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    and how long ago was all that?
     
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  3. standingfirminChrist

    standingfirminChrist New Member

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    last ghetto i lived in was in NC back in 2004. and yes, I heard many of the terms that are used today.

    Because of my blindness, and only drawing a government check once a month, I could never afford more.
     
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    gekko,

    I challenge you to read the book, 'a shepherd looks at Psalm 23' by Philip Keller. Read it, then tell me there is no change in the message when put in hip-hop terms.
     
    #24 standingfirminChrist, Jul 7, 2006
  5. gekko

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    north carolina? is that what NC stands for?

    that's not part of the mainstream ghetto.
     
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  6. standingfirminChrist

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    ghetto is ghetto no matter what state it is in. Ghetto refers to the low income, poverty stricken areas of a state.

    I have lived in places that would make the ghetto of Washington D.C. area look like a white collar neighborhood.

    And yes, I have lived in the DC area as well.

    Did not live in, but assisted in NYNY Bowery Mission. Also served in other missions where poverty is high.
     
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  7. gekko

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    well. i've underestimated you. sorry.

    i suspect you know more than me.

    but you dont live in a ghetto. in the projects. in the hood. if you dont listen to hip-hop. you cant understand hip-hop if you dont listen to it.
     
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  8. standingfirminChrist

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    Where I am living could be very well considered ghetto, my friend. As a matter of fact, what I have to live on as far as groceries is concerned is only 100 dollars a month. This pales in comparison to what many who live in the slums of NY or Atlantic City, or other areas are living on.

    I do not even qualify for food stamps, so please don't try to explain what ghetto is.

    Also, I have heard hip-hop, you cannot say I have not heard it so I don't know anything about it.

    As far as I am concerned, there is nothing to feed the soul in hip-hop, but rather, it feeds the flesh.
     
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    i never said you havn't heard hip-hop.

    i said. you can't truly be part of the hood if you dont Listen to hip-hop.

    im not trying to tell you what a ghetto is. i guess im referring more to the hood. sorry.
     
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  10. standingfirminChrist

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    which hood are you speaking of? In ghetto slang, hood refers to neighborhood or in some cases, a gang.

    I have already told you I have lived in places that were so poverty stricken, they were worse than DC.

    Where I live now is not even close to middle class or even low class. What hood do you mean?
     
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    I'm more ghetto than you are...

    No you're not...

    Prove it...

    I got my ghetto credentials right here. What you got?

    Are we really arguing over ghetto credentials?:laugh:

    Joseph Botwinick
     
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  12. standingfirminChrist

    standingfirminChrist New Member

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    Depends, Joseph.

    If I went to the local soup kitchen, they would more'n likely send me to the back door.
     
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    Now that was hilarious.... :laugh: :thumbs:

    SFIC= I can say you lived at the hood but not in the hood. To live in the hood would imply becoming part of the hood. That is different from living in the location.

    I have a lot of youth in my Church and know these rap songs do get them studying the word of GOD more than you can imagine.

    I also agree, this one can use some polish. I would hope their pastor sits them down with an open mind and tighten this one up a bit.
     
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    And I thought this was a book of prayers written by the Easter bunny.
     
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    It was written by D-Bunny and the Egg Head Crew.
     
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    I had to check with one of my young people to make sure he didn't mind me sharing these with you. He is an artist you know. Here are a couple of lines he wrote that I love to hear. These are not all from the same song.

    He healed the sick and raised the dead
    and with a two piece meal five thousand he fed
    (he also calls it a 2 piece fish dinner but I can't remember that one)


    GOD heard the prayers of his people in Egypt
    So he went and told Moses, "go get my people"

    Now here is one he and I had to talk about (showing the good and bad)

    Now when the liquor ran out at this wedding in Cannan
    it got so rough even his motha came plainin

    This went even more down hill and ended with Jesus made the phat flavor.

    My point is if the leadership of the Church would embrace these youth you can win them for the Lord and have some of the most Bible knowing youth in your Church. I have a group of them that carry pocket bibles. My rules are no profanity, disrespect of persons and must be biblical in nature.

    Remember, they are not rewriting the Bible as these are songs. Can someone show me the biblical soundness of Jesus keep me near the cross?
     
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  17. standingfirminChrist

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    Jesus fed 5000 with a two piece meal? That is not scriptureal. He fed the 5000 with 5 barley loaves and two small fishes. But it was many pieces that fed these 5000, for there was taken up 12 baskets of the fragments left over after this feast.

    And I certainly hope you are not teaching these youth that Jesus turned the water into an alcoholic beverage!
     
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    Oh, and it was not Canaan where the wedding feast was,
    It was Cana of Galilee.
     
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  19. LeBuick

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    Not all songs in the Church are scriptureal. Such as Jesus keep me near the cross. Where do you find that in scripture? Why would one want to be near or in the cross? Jesus is no longer on the cross, he ascended.

    I put that example to show how I believe they need to be supervised. I said he and I had a long talk about that verse. alcoholic beverage was the drink at the wedding was it not? Hard to imagine folks staying 7 days drinking grape juice.
     
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  20. standingfirminChrist

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    Hard to imagine that Jesus would give people something to add to drunkenness too.,
     
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