ABSTRACT
Rap music becomes a different entity when detached from the multiverse of hip-hop culture, and underground rap’s position of remaining connected to the society of hip-hop culture is critical to the perpetually regenerative enterprise of the culture. In The Black Church and Hip-Hop Culture, Emmett Price compiles a group of scholars to create a short anthology on the intersection of the Afro-diasporic US church and hip-hop culture. Again approaching hip-hop with an Afrocentric lens as do the authors of Breaking Bread, Breaking Beats, the authors connect hip-hop and the Afro-diasporic US church in ways that are extremely scholarly yet fully embodied with the aesthetico-cultural vibe of flow that is hip-hop and without which there would be no hip-hop. Monica R. Miller’s groundbreaking text Religion and Hip-Hop does a much-needed move with the category of religion as it is discussed in terms of hip-hop: she pushes for us to rethink the category entirely.
