The Soul of Hip Hop

Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology

By Daniel White Hodge

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: IVP Books
Length: 250 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: July 2010

ISBN-10: 0-8308-3732-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-3732-8
IVP Order Code: 3732

Related Subjects

Cultural Analysis
Urban Ministry

What is Hip Hop?

Hip hop speaks in a voice that is sometimes gruff, sometimes enraged, sometimes despairing, sometimes hopeful.

Hip hop is the voice of forgotten streets laying claim to the high life of rims and timbs and threads and bling.

Hip hop speaks in the muddled language of would-be prophets--mocking the architects of the status quo and stumbling in the dark toward a blurred vision of a world made right.

What is hip hop? It's a cultural movement with a traceable theological center. Daniel White Hodge follows the tracks of hip-hop theology and offers a path from its center to the cross, where Jesus speaks truth.