You need to pay attention to hip-hop if you’re religious. Here’s why. Ep. 29

Rap got religious last year. At least that’s what Zac wrote
earlier this year for America. The truth is, while it may have
gotten more explicit about religion in 2016, hip-hop has always had
a deep religious undercurrent to its bars and beats. This week
we’re chatting with Alex Nava, the author of In Search of Soul:
Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion. We talk to Alex about religion’s
influence on hip-hop and why people are surprised to find out about
it. If you need any convincing before or after listening to us—go
listen to Kendrick Lamar’s “How Much a Dollar Cost.” In Signs of
the Times, we talk Pope Francis in Colombia, rapping nuns,
beer-brewing monks and proposing in front of Pope Francis. Links
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