- Civilian Affairs
- Redefined
- It's Time
- Hey Yall
- Lord You Are
- Hip-Hop-cracy
- Card Shark
- Questions
- On In Here
- Jerseys and Fitteds
- Big Words
- Epiphany
- Check For Us
- We
If you ask a kid from the Bronx how he likes his hip-hop, he will likely use terms like "gangsta," "gully," and "grimy" to describe his rap of choice. Though terms like that might scare your average bookstore clerk, they're commonplace adjectives to describe the music from the streets. To this point, the fledgling Christian hip-hop scene has been adept at developing more progressive, Southern-fried hip-hop. The West Coast is still very underground. But what about that thick East Coast sound? This beat-driven, crank-it-up, straight-talking type of hip-hop is favored by most American fans, and the sales tallies for the latest by Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and Kanye West prove it.
Leave it to Philly-based The Cross Movement to be the standard bearers in the craft of making hood-friendly jams, but with a gospel bent. Both ministry-focused and extremely on point rhythmically, their fifth album,
From the opening strains of the military-themed "Civilian Affairs" and the relentless "It's Time," some will likely find