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...heard the New Testament story about Jesus calming the storm, right? The one from the Gospel of Matthew, in which the Apostles wake Jesus from a nap while waves almost ravage their boat. According to one version, it goes, "Jesus awoke and asked them, 'Are y'all doubters out there pouting for real/ What's the deal?/ Where's all that faith you always talking about when I'm not around?/ How you gone' doubt right now?/ Check this out/ ... I'm talking to the waters and clouds/ Rain and wind, y'all both calm down...
...July, targets young hip-hop fans. Rap renditions of stories like the parable of the mustard seed, are labeled "The Script" and scattered throughout the book. Revolve, a biblezine for teenage girls, includes a Q&A column called Blab. One installment, next to chapter 18 of John's Gospel, asks, "My BFF [to those who last signed a high school yearbook in the Carter years, BFF means "best friend forever"] is sneaking out with a much older guy ... Should I tell somebody...
...used to being on the tail end of any genre. After all, the South is where jazz and blues were invented. Where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the devil so he could play the licks that would become rock 'n' roll. Where Ray Charles realized that gospel sounded just as good outside of church. So the past 25 years must have been painful for Southern rappers, having to stand by while New York City and Los Angeles rhymers got all the respect and most of the record sales...
...course, Southern rap didn't just crop up overnight. America got a taste of what the down-home base could deliver in 1989, when Miami's Luther Campbell and his 2 Live Crew rampaged with the hit Me So Horny. But that era's strip-club-and-gospel sensibility was a little too jarring for mainstream tastes, and Campbell ended up retreating to Florida. That didn't daunt innovators like Speech of Arrested Development, Missy Elliott and the Neptunes--all from the South...
...early 1980s. An updated edition of Allen's Nothing Down zoomed back onto the best-seller lists last year. Offering dozens of financing tactics, Allen and Lowry were soon so much in demand that they formed companies and hired dozens of disciples to go out and preach the gospel in their place...