By Melody Andrews
for the Daily Helmsman
On a cool night in early November, around 200 students entered Second Presbyterian Church to fellowship with other Christian students from the University of Memphis. But this Bible study hosted by Campus Outreach was unique to some of the ministry's attendees. Right in the midst of their service, integrated with "amens" and murmured praise, was hip-hop music.
From its infancy in the 1970s, riddled with braggadocio-filled raps, community-center disc jockeys and nimble break dancers from the Bronx, hip-hop culture is often recognized for its content's immorality. What many see as hip-hop's inherent, sinful nature even led to rap music being blamed for the gradual collapse of American morality.
The grungy and gritty environment that gave birth to the genre may make hip-hop and religion an unlikely pair. Yet while it lacks an immaculate conception, hip-hop contains religion in a larger capacity than its gold-encrusted Jesus pieces and infamous Illuminati rumors.
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