Fully aware of this, I still have listened to these CDs intently for years, unmoved by the fact that I’m just a statistic. Much more, the only people I knew in high school who listened to Mos Def were people of a similar demographic stripe. In fact, I have to admit that I received my copies of Black Star and Black on Both Sides from a gifted upper middle class white kid. It’s worth noting that listening to Mos Def was recently listed as something that white people like to do. These musings stem from a recent concentrated meditation on the work of hip hop artist Mos Def and to a slightly lesser extent, his partner in rhyme, Talib Kweli. With these caveats firmly in place, I’d like to account for the utter failure of Christian hip hop.
Additionally, I know that my take on these issues are as much shaped by regional factors as it is by socio-economic and racial factors, and so a good bit of what I have to say here requires being taken with a grain of salt. Second, while I quite enjoy hip hop music and have for some time now, I realize that my doing so is all sorts of ironic, given my own social standing and upbringing. In part, this should be automatically obvious if my general thesis is true. One, I don’t want to give the impression that I’m an expert on the history or state of hip hop music. I’m a little reluctant to publish this piece for a couple reasons. “Most of these cats is featherweight.” – Talib Kweli Be sure to check out the response to this article, Why Christian Hip Hop is Not a Failure. Editor’s Note: This post was written by Guest Writer, Scott Schultz.
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