ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a Whiteheadian process theopoetic of underground rap aesthetics, music, and culture. It shows that underground hip-hop culture, from which underground rap emerges, is a theopoetic re-creation of the original hip-hop mode of becoming, with an abundance of intentional and unintentional quasi-religious implications that create the possibilities of the aim of holistic justice that many underground MCs attempt to actualize. Underground rap’s admission into the ranks of the theopoetic conversation is a tremendous addition. The consideration of underground rappers as Gods/Goddesses who “save” reality through their literary reconstructions of the world also demonstrate underground rap’s role as a process theopoetic. The polydoxy of several underground rapper Gods uttering multiple different ways of right belief using subversive theopoetic writing to influence the world has yet to be considered. Underground rap’s transformation of models of God from confessional use to secular and nonconfessional consciousness is theopoetic.
