Hip Hop and Christian RNB or Rap music allow individuals to express themselves by listening to artists that relate to their circumstances or change a course in their lives. My genre artifacts are based on artists like Dee-1, Young Bro, and Marie Love who wrote the songs People Don't Want That Real, Apart from You, and Guide Me. These combine the subgenres of hip hop and Christian R&B with the lyrical statements in each song. It is worth analyzing, and outlining its key characteristics, conventions, features, and primary purpose because music is a key component in connecting with worldly values or ideals, which can allow individuals to differentiate on the subliminal messaging impacting their lives. Music has grown since the early 1900s, starting with …show more content…
The music industry has grown from the late 1900s to the current 2000s when different subgenres started to gain more popularity over time with hiphop and rap introduced in the music industry first. Artists in the music industry have implemented multiple sub-genres of their culture into their expression of their life in lyrical statements. According to Dr. Porta K. Maultsby, timeline.carneigehall.org states, “The popularity of hiphop among the African American youth inspired new sounds in Black religious music that came to be known as Christian rap and, later, holy hip-hop”. Based on Maultsby’s claims, hiphop has been a cornerstone in music, with a youth group of black minorities contributing to new musical genres being introduced in society in the recent years containing elements of rap and hiphop from a Christian perspective. Maultsby’s claim conveys that hiphop is used in the black minority, utilized as a tool to integrate different concepts and elements into the Christian subgenre of