Mostly Hip-Hop Sermon Playlist

“Rap offers an inverted reality structure that redefines what is naughty and what is nice… [Through hip hop,] the gospel is being inculturated for a new generation. To reconsider your circumstances using the perspectives of a new generation is a difficult and contemplative act. It is contemplative because it requires the recognition that the world as we know it is not of our own making.” - Barbara Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church

As I recently wrote in this article for the Center for Spiritual Imagination, hip hop has always been a part of my life and a soundtrack to what I do. Over the course of the many sermons I have preached, I have included a number of hip hop songs. This below, though not very fancy, is a playlist of the songs I have used. It includes a mixture of jazz, hip hop, reggaetón and even rock. Some people have asked me for it, so, even though I am sure it is incomplete, here is a playlist of the songs I have used in my sermons.