Underground Rap as Religion

<p>Underground rap is largely a subversive grassroots and revolutionary movement in underground hip-hop tending to privilege creative freedom as well as progressive and liberating thoughts and actions. This book contends that many practitioners of underground rap have absorbed religious traditions and ideas and implement critique or abandon <br>them in their writings. This in turn creates processural mutations of God that coincide with and speak to the particular context from which they originate.<br><br>Utilising the work of scholars like Monica Miller and Alfred North Whitehead Gill uses a secular religious methodology to put forward an aesthetic philosophy of religion for the rap portion of underground hip-hop. Drawing from Whiteheadian process thought a theopoetic <br>argument is made. Namely that it is not simply the case that is God the poet of the world but rather rap can in fact be the poet (creator) of its own form of quasi-religion.<br><br>This is a unique look at the religious workings and implications of underground rap and hip hop. As such it will be of keen interest to scholars of Religious Studies Hip-Hop Studies and Process Philosophy and Theology.</p>