RESPONSE - Let's be real for a minute. Cultures are subject to movements of people based on situations or circumstances surrounding them right? That would mean that every culture has a base. And whatever that base is decides what the fruit of that culture will be. In other words, the roots determine the fruit! The roots of Hip Hop are demonic. Oppression, anguish, poverty, violence, and other negative influences created this culture. Zulu customs, teachings, and ideals gave foundation and established the "positive" aspects of Hip Hop. You must realize that God did not play a part in the creation, establishing, or foundation of Hip Hop, so how can we drag him into it at this late stage. KRS-ONE says that he was visited by a spirit and the spirit influenced him to accept his calling in Hip Hop. This was also stated by Afrika Bambaata who is the founding father of Hip Hop. How can we embrace this culture when it's origins are evil and demonic?

Many Christians are trying to hold on to their pasts by staying true to the culture and embracing it because that's where they came from. But Paul says that he counts all that he had attained as DOOKIE!!! That means that we must let go of who we were and move on in our new identity in Christ. God never intended for the black man to be oppressed, poor, and discriminated against. And God seeks to deliver us out of that mentality that influenced us to act on our oppression. But he never wanted us to look within ourselves and find the answers, as the hip hop leaders preach, but he wants us to look to him and use his method, the word of God, to break free from the curses of our oppressors.

PROOF - Why did God, when he changed the lives of Paul and Abraham, change their names? All through the bible, God would always change the name or give a meaningful name to those that he called and used. Their name would preach a sermon in itself about their transformation process or their intent for living. Well, if God has changed you, how can you hold on to your surroundings, your old ways, your old thought processes? You cannot! God would also take his people out of their environments, away from their friends and family, and move them into new lands. But those that held on to their old customs or cultures were left behind. Why? Because where we come from is not where God wants us to stay. Listen my people, God is not concerned with our cultures. He wants to establish a place for us in the only true culture and that is the Kingdom of God!!!

SCRIPTURE - Php 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,