Music/Lecr.....

Rap is bad!....Its sinful!......Think of all the bad rappers out there!........What good has it ever done you?!.....
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Can I talk now?
Thanks.
Okay here I go.

Some people say classical music helps the mind.
I have a friend who has seen some amazing results from playing an instrument.
And I agree, classical music can be good for the brain.
But when we are talking about music with lyrics, that is a whole different topic.
Really, it is a very different topic.
Seriously.
No joke.

Right now I am going to talk about music with lyrics.

If you are a Christian you will obviously like Christian music better, and since mostly everybody reading this blog is probably a Christian, than I will talk about Christian music.

I know a lot a believers who think rap is bad.
They say the heavy beat is bad for you, they see this picture of a screaming black guy wearing saggy pants and singing to a wild beat.(no joke). They think that all that stimulation and hard sound can't be good for you.(that is basically all they have said)
But I think they are just following a stereotype that says quote unquote- Gangsters
like and make rap, so rap must be bad. Period.
Many Christian rappers(like Lecrae) did hang out in the hood and made secular rap.
But then they became a Christian and said something like this- You know all those non-Christian
rappers out their need a witness, I think I'll make some Christian rap for them.
But some other Christians don't like it.
So they listen to music like the stuff on KGBI, and K-LOVE, and stuff like that.
Some of them listen to classical or soundtrack, some even listen to secular music.
Then there are some who listen to whatever they want.
Then there are some (like me) who listen to rap.

I would like to look at the differences between contemporary, and Christian rap.

Contemporary: Most of the lyrics I hear are talking about how God loves us, and how every thing is going to be OK, and It's all right God loves you, God is good, you can make it.
Yes God is good, and yes God loves you, but there is a point where we need to realize that God sends
pain and suffering to make us grow in our faith.
Besides that message gets a little old after a while.
Christian rappers are much more to the point, don't have there head in the clouds, and don't preach only what the world wants to here.
In rap you hear phrases like this "Here's my gifts and time cause I'm constantly trying to be used to praise the Christ"
Sure K-LOVE has God honoring songs on it but it is rare that you hear something like that.

I have never heard a song on KGBI or K-LOVE talk about how we are supposed to suffer(quite the opposite)
Here is another line from a "bad" rap song-
"Suffer, ya, do it for Christ, you make a lot a money hope you doin it right because the money is God's ya better steward it right"
Wow.
What other artists are afraid to admit, a rapper(of all people) comes out and says out loud and bluntly.
The point is we ARE supposed to suffer for Christ.
The church in China welcomes suffering and sees it as a way to grow.
In fact they even pray for us Americans to go through suffering!!

Don't you want the music you listen too to be God honoring?
The eleventh commandment is not "And thou shalt not have a heavy beat in thy music!"
In fact God tells us praise him with music and lots of instruments.
I don't think God frowns on all those people who play drums, I think he smiles at those who worship him freely in their music.


By the way, the song I quoted is Don't waste your life by Lecrae.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0_pzJfrqiU
You should listen to it.