{"id":407,"date":"2012-02-29T00:32:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T07:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionspeak.asinglelion.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2012-02-29T00:45:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T07:45:55","slug":"reformed-hip-hop-artist-raps-with-sound-biblical-doctrine-and-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Reformed Hip Hop Artist Raps with Sound Biblical Doctrine and Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Except guilty pleasures in a form of a geek-core rapper I do not care much for hip hop. Worst t is the sorry state of Christian music, ether we have lame\u00a0knockoffs of a\u00a0current pop star or trend \u00a0or narcissistic pulp mantra. Even the Creators of South Park sees the sham of Contemporary Christian Music:<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #000000; width: 368px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px;\"><object width=\"360\" height=\"293\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:southparkstudios.com:154133\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\".\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"\" \/><embed width=\"360\" height=\"293\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:southparkstudios.com:154133\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" base=\".\" flashvars=\"\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southparkstudios.com\/full-episodes\/s07e09-christian-rock-hard\">Christian Rock Hard<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nGet More: <a style=\"display: block; position: relative; top: -1.33em; float: right; font-weight: bold; color: #ffcc00; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southparkstudios.com\/\">SOUTH<br \/>\nPARK<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southparkstudios.com\/guide\/episodes\/s07e09-christian-rock-hard\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While I was listening to my favorite show, Fighting for the Faith, I was introduced<strong> <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightingforthefaith.com\/2012\/02\/jovan-mackenzy-interview.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #800080;\">Jovan MacKenzy <\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">a former member of a word of faith church and christian rapper who walked away his church and record label when he started examining the scripture and realize the preaching did not line up with scripture. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000;\">Recently Mr. MacKenzy released a new album; <a href=\"http:\/\/midwestnoise.com\/jovan\/\">The Narrow Road: Famine<\/a>. The best of all he giving it away for free, still there is a button for donation.\u00a0 One unique song is Triune God, Here he is able defend the doctrine of the trinity with sound biblical doctrine while in rime. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">On a side note, Jovan MacKenzy demonstrates it not about beat or style but all about contentment. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except guilty pleasures in a form of a geek-core rapper I do not care much for hip hop. Worst t is the sorry state of Christian music, ether we have lame\u00a0knockoffs of a\u00a0current pop star or trend \u00a0or narcissistic pulp &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=407\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[178,179],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-thing-christian","category-media","tag-jovan-mackenzy","tag-refomed-christian-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}