The Soul of Hip Hop

<P>What is Hip Hop?</P><P>Hip hop speaks in a voice that is sometimes gruff sometimes enraged sometimes despairing sometimes hopeful.</P><P>Hip hop is the voice of forgotten streets laying claim to the high life of rims and timbs and threads and bling.</P><P>Hip hop speaks in the muddled language of would-be prophets--mocking the architects of the status quo and stumbling in the dark toward a blurred vision of a world made right.</P><P>What is hip hop? It's a cultural movement with a traceable theological center. Daniel White Hodge follows the tracks of hip-hop theology and offers a path from its center to the cross where Jesus speaks truth.</P>