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"Rappin' for Jesus" is a 2013 viral music video. [1] It was purportedly written for a Christian youth outreach program in Dubuque, Iowa , by Pastor Jim Colerick and his wife Mary Sue, but is generally thought to be a hoax or parody .
Wiley was born in 1958 and grew up in Muskogee, Oklahoma.A University of Oklahoma graduate, Wiley began a career as a jazz drummer in 1979. By 1982, Wiley was performing rap music with Christian lyrics, and in 1984 he took a job as chaplain at a juvenile detention center. [2]
"Rappin' for Jesus" – a song by Pastor & Mrs. Jim Colerick. The video was made to promote a Christian youth outreach program. The video features the couple rapping about how to be a Christian. The video went viral because of the line "That's cause Jesus Christ is my nigga" which many took as a racial slur.
There are more reasons than not to call Jesus a rapper. By the definitions of his day: a gangster rapper. Check the Bible, it’s all there. But which MC's have followed the Leader?
Rappin' for Jesus; S. Selah (song) This page was last edited on 13 December 2024, at 18:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
While Run-DMC weren't the first group to make a Christmas rap song (that honor goes to Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin'"), they made a memorable, honest, and fun song. Or, as DMC himself put it ...
Christian hip-hop music first emerged on record in 1982 with a track entitled "Jesus Christ (The Gospel Beat)" by Queens, New York artist McSweet. The first full-length Christian hip-hop album, Bible Break, by Oklahoma artist Stephen Wiley, was released in 1985, with the title track becoming a hit on Christian radio in 1986. Other early ...
Jesus music, known as gospel beat music in the United Kingdom, is a style of Christian music that originated on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This musical genre developed in parallel to the Jesus movement .