In his recent essay “When the People Cheer: How Hip-Hop Failed Black America,” Questlove, famed drummer of The Roots, declares that “hip-hop has taken over black music.” But hip-hop has ...
I found out I could rap in 2009 when I bumped into gospel rapper A-Star’s album that inspired me so much that I began memorising and rapping along to his songs. After rapping along for a while ...
Gospel music has its origins in the hymns, spirituals and sacred songs found in Afro-American culture in the 18th and 19th Century. Gospel songs were originally sung by African slaves. Lyrics ...
October 7, 2024 • Renowned soul and gospel singer Cissy Houston has died. She was part of a extraordinary musical family that included Dionne Warwick and her superstar daughter, Whitney Houston.
The Gospel of Matthew is concerned with the position of these early Christian churches within Israel, or in its relationship to what we call Judaism. And these are concerns that belong to the time ...
The history of Rap music goes back a millennium of years in Africa, then it was called griot (gree-ow). Village story tellers played a handmade instrument called a Kora, while telling stories of ...
However, tradition places him at Rome, but one more tradition also has him located at Alexandria, and it may be the case that the story that we call Mark's gospel, which supposedly derived from ...