ABSTRACT
The action of the rap Gods is what the imperceptible universal network of hip-hop culture may look like if it were to take distinct animate form. Underground rap is another instance of a “temporal accident” of the cosmology of underground hip-hop, in that through the element of rap, underground hip-hop has an observable example of the process of flow. This chapter aims to analyze the thought of world-renowned underground rappers who were and are on the forefront of underground rap’s boom-bap and avant-garde movements. There are several underground rappers who creatively reshape God-language to assert a humanistic manifesto that ceases to allow a literal usage of models of God and their sometimes sexist, racist, and war-causing imagery to limit humanity from achieving its full potential of moving beyond these obstacles. The dissertation serves to cite underground rap as one of many instances of Aesthetic Religion.
